Director, Clinical Affairs of Coronary/Vascular

Job Title Director, Clinical Affairs of Coronary/Vascular Job Description Director, Clinical Affairs of Coronary/Vascular The Director, Clinical Affairs of Coronary/Vascular leads the vision and execution of clinical evidence strategies that support business growth, product innovation, regulatory success, and clinical adoption across the Cardiovascular portfolio. This role partners cross-functionally with Medical Affairs, R&D, Regulatory, Marketing, Quality, and commercial leadership to design and deliver high-impact clinical evidence programs aligned with business priorities, unmet clinical needs, and evolving industry standards. Your role: Develop and lead the global Clinical Affairs strategy across the coronary and vascular portfolio, ensuring clinical evidence generation plans are aligned with product development, regulatory, commercial, health economics, and business objectives. Partner closely with Marketing, Regulatory, Quality, R&D, Medical Affairs, and executive leadership to establish priorities and drive cross-functional alignment. Architect and oversee clinical evidence programs across the product lifecycle, including early feasibility, pivotal, pre-market, post-market, registry, and real-world evidence studies. Direct study design, protocol development, endpoint selection, statistical strategy, operational execution, and evidence dissemination to support innovation, clinical adoption, and regulatory success. Build and deliver high-quality clinical evidence and scientific communications that support regulatory submissions, market registrations, clinical evaluations, product claims, publication strategies, lifecycle management, and global evidence dissemination. Ensure all clinical programs are scientifically rigorous, operationally effective, and compliant with applicable regulations, standards, and company policies. Provide strategic clinical leadership throughout product development and commercialization, including clinical input into risk management, design controls, preclinical and clinical study strategies, new product development processes, and design history documentation. Serve as the primary Clinical Affairs representative in governance forums, core teams, and key business decision-making activities. Lead and develop a high-performing Clinical Affairs organization while serving as the primary external clinical interface with regulatory authorities, investigators, key opinion leaders, professional societies, and scientific stakeholders. Oversee team performance, budgets, timelines, and quality objectives, while representing the business and Clinical Affairs function in senior leadership, regulatory, and external scientific engagements. You're the right fit if: You’ve acquired 10+ years of directly related clinical or scientific experience, including leadership or management experience within the medical device industry, and 5+ years managing a clinical research functional team with a proven track record delivering complex clinical programs on time, within budget, and in compliance with applicable requirements. Experience with coronary clinical research is a must. Your skills include comprehensive knowledge of clinical research regulations across multiple regions, FDA medical device regulations, medical device clinical trial practices, Good Clinical Practice, informed consent requirements, regulatory documentation, and the clinical evidence requirements needed to support regulatory, product development, and commercial objectives. You have a Bachelor’s degree in a scientific discipline; an advanced scientific, clinical, or professional degree is preferred. You’re a strategic, collaborative leader who can build strong internal and external relationships, influence through direct and indirect reporting lines, communicate effectively with technical, clinical, regulatory, executive, and external audiences, and manage multiple studies, team priorities, and company initiatives in a complex matrixed environment. Experience with catheterization lab, cardiovascular, peripheral vascular, coronary, or electrophysiology medical device applications is preferred, along with the ability to represent Philips professionally in scientific, regulatory, clinical, and business forums and travel domestically and internationally approximately 20–30% of the time. You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position. How we work together We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations. This is an office-based role. About Philips We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help improve the lives of others. Learn more about our business. Discover our rich and exciting history. Learn more about our purpose. Learn more about our culture. Philips Transparency Details The pay range for this position in Colorado Springs is $171,000 to $273,000. The pay range for this position in Plymouth, MN is $180,000 to $287,000. The pay range for this position in Bothell, WA, San Diego, CA, Cambridge, MA, Bedford, MA is $192,000 to $306,000. The actual base pay offered may vary within the posted ranges depending on multiple factors including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal equity. In addition, other compensation, such as an annual incentive bonus, sales commission or long-term incentives may be offered. Employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive Philips Total Rewards benefits program, which includes a generous PTO, 401k (up to 7% match), HSA (with company contribution), stock purchase plan, education reimbursement and much more. Details about our benefits can be found here. At Philips, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each case. Additional Information US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa, now or in the future. Company relocation benefits will not be provided for this position. For this position, you must reside in or within commuting distance to posted locations. #LI-PH1 This requisition is expected to stay active for 45 days but may close earlier if a successful candidate is selected or business necessity dictates. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible to ensure consideration. Philips is an Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets and maintains a drug-free workplace. At Philips, we believe that every human matters. As a global health-tech leader, we focus on improving people’s health and wellbeing through meaningful innovation. The people who work here share our passion and are motivated to bring this purpose to life. For more than 130 years, we have been creating technologies and innovations that improve people's lives and support healthcare practitioners. Headquartered in the Netherlands and operating in more than 100 countries globally, we focus our advanced technology and deep clinical and consumer insights on Precision Diagnosis, Image Guided Therapy, Enterprise Informatics, Monitoring/ Connected Care, Sleep & Respiratory Care and Personal Health. Together, we deliver better care for more people because we believe that every human matters. That's why we're taking steps to create an environment where we acknowledge and embrace our differences and uniqueness and listen to and value each other's views. When people feel cared for and listened to, they bring their best qualities to work, leading to better collaboration, communication, innovation and success. 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