Associate Clinical Specialist, Pain Interventions - Tallahassee, FL / Southwest Georgia

Associate Clinical Specialist

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

At Medtronic, the Associate Clinical Specialist supports the Neuromodulation Pain, Target Drug Delivery and Interventional Therapies in the areas of surgical coverage, follow-up support, troubleshooting, customer service and education. This person will be engaged in basic market development activities depending upon the needs of the assigned territory and district.

This is a field-based position, supporting customers at hospitals, clinics, and physician offices throughout the assigned territory within Southwest Georgia / Tallahassee and covering the surrounding area or areas to include Thomasville, Valdosta and Moultrie. All incumbents are required to reside within the territory and to drive to multiple accounts throughout the region approximately 50% of the time, including overnight travel. A valid driver's license and active vehicle insurance policy are essential for this role. In addition, your driving record will be reviewed and will be considered as part of your application.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Represents Medtronic during surgical procedures by ensuring all necessary equipment and products required are available, providing technical support and device selection, and performing programming and testing of all device systems
• Manages patients through all phases of the clinical process as well as educate them on the features and benefits of Medtronic products
• Provides clinical support in surgeries, re-programmings, trouble-shooting and follow ups in hospitals and clinics
• Responds promptly and appropriately to technical inquiries by customers, patients, and colleagues
• Maintains a working knowledge of competitive products
• Educates and trains physicians, hospital personnel and office staff on products and therapies. This is expected by, but not limited to, coordinating one on one teaching sessions, formal in-services, education programs, seminars and/or outside symposia (based off quarterly Plan of Action as directed by Leadership)
• Assists Management and Sales Training department in education/training of new employees in the district
• Complies with required event reporting and documentation utilizing Medtronic technology tools
• Accountable for placing orders with customer service for pending purchase orders and product replacement
• Expected to work with materials management to collect POs for cases covered within the territory/district
• Responsible for managing inventory provided for case coverage, including: timely transactions when product is used, sold or transferred, maintaining a required level of cycle count accuracy, executing product retrievals as instructed, turning over inventory in a reasonable time frame, not implanting expired product or product that is on hold
• Contributes to the achievement of quarterly goals associated with specific initiatives at the district, regional and/or national level
• Partners with sales representatives to achieve business goals set forth within the territory/district and documents quarterly activities utilizing provided business tool(s)
• Visits accounts to replenish literature and establishes/maintains relationships with office staff
• Effectively utilizes Excel, a mobile phone, an IPAD, a laptop, and/or a Samsung tablet regularly
• Manages business expenses and budget effectively and in given timeframe
• Ensures personal understanding of all quality policy/system items that are personally applicable
• Completes all new hire therapy trainings as directed by medical education
• Ability to be flexible with schedule while working and/or attending clinical events, possibly outside of normal business hours to include weekends and after hours and at the discretion of Clinical Specialist Manager
• Travels to cover district cases as needed in the district, and occasionally to other districts at the discretion of Clinical Manager

Required Qualifications:

• A High School Diploma or GED with a minimum 4 years of clinical OR medical sales experience; OR An Associate Degree with a minimum 2 years of clinical or medical sales experience; OR A Bachelor's degree

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a health care related field
• Registered nurse or HCP with experience in a sterile environment
• Clinical experience with implantable neurological products and patient care
• Experience in servicing medical personnel on product use
• Experience with a medical device or pharmaceutical company, and clinical experience in a specialty area: neurology, neurosurgery, orthopedic, operating room, pain management, or home health care
• Understanding of basic reimbursement and healthcare environment

Additional Job Requirements:

• Required to function using healthcare universal precautions to minimize exposure to infectious disease and radiation
• Ability to serve as the primary resource for scheduled and unscheduled clinical events, periodically required to work weekends, evenings and nights and may be required to engage in overnight travel within own district or neighboring districts
• Ability to work efficiently and autonomously with little direction when outside of clinical events
• Ability to attend national meetings, district meetings and other training as requested
• Ability to wear a 7-9 lbs protective lead apron for extended periods of time in the operating room
• Ability to lift up to 40 lbs
• Ability to sitting, standing, and/or walking for 8+ hours per day
• Ability to bend/stoop, squat and balance frequently
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus in relation to travel and operating a personal computer.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

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