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Your responsibilities will include:
- Build, maintain and manage effective professional peer-peer relationships with contracted External Experts (EE), or Key Opinion Leaders (KOL) engaging in bi-directional scientific/educational exchange.
- Understands medical/scientific barriers that may influence patient outcomes.
- Focus on ongoing research, newly published evidence, practice pattern changes and alternative therapies.
- Teach the clinical evidence story linking the totality of evidence in a non-biased manner.
- Inform HCPs about clinical evidence and accurately communicate key evidence gaps.
- Execute on medical plans communicating technical and clinical data supporting new products or and/or new indications.
- Create a territory plan to identify early users that will provide meaningful clinical insights.
- Provide medical and scientific support for EEs speaking on Boston Scientific products at medical meetings and congresses.
- Support peer-to-peer education programs through speaker identification and support.
- Investigate and gather field medical intelligence/insights that might affect therapy safety/efficacy, Clinical/R&D strategies and competitive activities.
- Create strategies to gain insights from a diverse set of stakeholders.
- Communicates knowledge in a simple, coherent and informative manner to internal stakeholders.
- Identify clinical insights and knowledge gaps and be able to articulate the impact and magnitude of the findings.
- Provides medical/scientific congress support communicating accurate information with timely follow up.
- Attends key sessions and communicates knowledge in a simple, coherent and informative manner to internal stakeholders.
- Develops and executes on KOL engagement plan at the congress.
- Applying exceptional literature searching and curator skills directly addressing medical information requests from HCPs.
- Provide thoughtful and medically sound assessments in a timely manner.
- Utilize medical information to appropriately build KOL relationships and deliver medical insights to the business.
- Assist Boston Scientific Clinical Development department with company sponsored clinical trials focusing on clinical trial site identification, site initiation, site protocol education, and ongoing support.
- Identify key issues that are accelerating or inhibiting patient recruitment, quality data collection or patient retention.
- Recommend research sites that can perform well delivering patient enrollment and quality data.
- Support principal investigator and provide up to date information that may improve patient recruitment and/or data quality.
- Provide medical insights and updates on key findings affecting the study performance.
- Through scientific exchange, discover novel investigator sponsored research (ISR) ideas.
- Clearly articulate Boston Scientific strategic interest and fully understand how a concept fits within the strategy.
- Fully appreciate novel ideas that could significantly impact patient care.
- Support Investigator Initiated research/study program by discovering and championing innovative ideas, facilitate study start up and provide ongoing consultation.
- Provide quarterly updates to senior leadership on study progress and medical/scientific insights.
- Inform Boston Scientific leaders of major milestone accomplishments.
- Proactively engage HCPs providing on-label product and procedural training of Boston Scientific IO&E therapies.
- Provide training/education for patient specific cases including patient section criteria, dosing, device setup/deployment and methods to mitigate adverse events.This includes real time patient case procedural training.
- As a subject matter expert, teach medical education and internal training courses.
- Provide product and disease-state educational/training support to the Boston Scientific Commercial and R&D functions related to technical, medical and scientific information.
- Provide refresher training to users who are not achieving desired outcomes
Required qualifications:
- Terminal degree in clinically related area and Bachelor’s degree required.
- Over 5 years’ experience functioning in a medical scientific role that has frequent interactions with healthcare providers.
- Ability to apply advanced technical principles, theories, and concepts.
- Contributes to the development of new principles and concepts.
- Track record of solving complex medical/scientific problems and providing innovative solutions.
- Develops advanced medical/scientific/clinical ideas and guides their development into a final product.
- Track record for creating, managing and completing medical/scientific-related projects.
- Demonstrated scientific and medical acumen preferably with a publication record.
- Clinical acumen; preferably having clinical patient care experience, or healthcare experience working in a complex healthcare delivery system.
- Ability to travel extensively within the US (North America) and within assigned territory.
- Some international travel may be required.
- Ability to operate a car and maintain a valid driver’s license.
- Physical ability to operate interventional instrumentation.
- Willingness and ability to work within and outside of traditional business hours.
Preferred experience:
- Oncology experience or demonstrated ability to master new therapeutic areas.
- Industry experience in a clinical, medical or scientific role.
- Field experience.
- Medical devices experience.
- Outstanding interpersonal consultative skills.
- Excellent presentation/platform skills.
- Self-motivated continuous scientific, technical and medical learning.
- Strong teaching acumen with focus on practical learning.
- Ability to manage and prioritize workload, multi-task and manage a diverse mix of issues, responsibilities and challenges.
- Ability to creatively address problems in an organized systematic way.
- Collaborative style, responsive, considerate, flexible, assertive and personable.
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office Products and web-based customer and clinical support tools.
Compensation fornon-exempt (hourly), non-sales rolesmay also include variable compensation from time to time (e.g., any overtime and shift differential) and annual bonus target (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements).
Compensation forexempt, non-sales rolesmay also include variable compensation, i.e., annual bonus target and long-term incentives (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements).
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Please be advised that certain US based positions, including without limitation field sales and service positions that call on hospitals and/or health care centers, require acceptable proof of COVID-19 vaccination status. Candidates will be notified during the interview and selection process if the role(s) for which they have applied require proof of vaccination as a condition of employment. Boston Scientific continues to evaluate its policies and protocols regarding the COVID-19 vaccine and will comply with all applicable state and federal law and healthcare credentialing requirements. As employees of the Company, you will be expected to meet the ongoing requirements for your roles, including any new requirements, should the Company’s policies or protocols change with regard to COVID-19 vaccination.