Senior Clinical Implant Specialist (Field Los Angeles, CA) THV
This is a unique opportunity to join the Transcatheter Heart Valve (THV) group, focused on developing solutions for patients suffering from structural heart disease.
As a Senior Clinical Implant Specialist, you will represent Edwards during implants (or cases) by providing all necessary equipment and products required for device implants and demonstrate expertise in all aspects of implant and troubleshooting techniques.
Key Responsibilities including but not limited to :
Education Support
· Educate and train physicians, hospital personnel and hospital staff on technical matters relating to our aortic products through conducting and/or coordinating one-on-one training sessions, in-service education programs and Seminars and/or outside symposiums
· Provide training and resources for hospital staff to enable them to conduct training for their personnel (\”train the trainer\”)
Customer Support
· During and following transcatheter cases will serve as effective Edwards representative to physicians and support staff regarding Edwards products, service and support
· Provide support with clinical investigations in assigned institutions
Clinical Trial Support
· Primary contact within the Clinical Research Department for site management during clinical trials
· Train members of the CS team to handle cases for Aortic studies
· Assist CRA in ensuring and documenting clinical site and investigator readiness for participation in an investigation and ensuring those key job responsibilities are carried out in a consistent manner across all studies
· Create, compile and verify required regulatory, legal, and financial documentation in order to ensure successful study start-up (e.g., site initiation visits, product shipment, start of patient enrollment), by reviewing the protocol for study specific criteria to determine what documentation is needed
· Monitor inventory levels, initiate shipments and movements of investigational products according to regulatory and company guidelines.
Monitor the levels and expiration dates of investigational product in the field
· Coordinate communication between internal and external customers to facilitate return of product according to departmental SOP
· Ensure clinical trials are compliant to regulatory and company guidelines
Required Qualifications:
· Bachelor’s Degree
· Minimum 5 years of previous medical device and or clinical experience
· Minimum of 1 year of focused aortic and/or mitral case coverage
· Ability to travel up to 75% (consistent w/ other postings)
Preferred Qualifications:
· Registered Nursing Degree (RN), Certified Radiology Technician (CRT) , Operating Room Technician (ORT) or Cardiovascular Technician (RCIS)
· Experience in interventional cardiology or cardiothoracic surgery
· Minimum two years prior industry experience
· Ability to differentiate between different Mitral disease states (FMR, DMR, mixed)
· Mitral
– clip experience
· Solid knowledge in cardiovascular science and medical devices industry
· Solid Knowledge of TEE/TTE/CT imaging
· Knowledge/Support of the transseptal puncture procedure
· Knowledge/Support of the transseptal puncture procedure
· Solid Knowledge of TEE/TTE/CT imaging
· Solid Knowledge of mitral anatomy and current mitral procedures
· Quick learner: ability to come up to speed quickly on Edwards’s products and services
· Good presentation skills: ability to present material comfortably
· Team player, networking, communication (written/verbal), and win-win relationship building skills
· Ability to work positively through confrontation and or conflicting ideas
· Strong time and territory management skills
· Must be proficient with computers
E dwards is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer including protected Veterans and individuals with disabilities.
Edwards is committed to complying with the requirements and guidance from our government authorities and to protecting our vulnerable patients and the healthcare providers who are treating them around the world.
As such, all Healthcare Interacting positions require COVID-19 vaccination, which includes anyone who directly interfaces with patients and those who interact with healthcare providers as part of their role.
If hired, as a condition of employment, you will be required to submit proof that you have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19 or have a valid religious or medical exemption from being vaccinated.
Edwards Lifesciences is the global leader in patient-focused medical innovations for structural heart disease, as well as critical care and surgical monitoring.
Driven by a passion to help patients, the company collaborates with the world’s leading clinicians and researchers to address unmet healthcare needs, working to improve patient outcomes and enhance lives.
Headquartered in Irvine, California, Edwards Lifesciences has extensive operations in North America, Europe, Japan, Latin America and Asia and currently employs over 15,000 individuals worldwide.
For us, helping patients is not a slogan
– it’s our life’s work.
From developing devices that replace or repair a diseased heart valve to creating new technologies that monitor vital signs in the critical care setting, we focus on helping patients regain and improve the quality of their life.