Description
Make a meaningful difference to patients around the world. Driven by a passion to help patients live healthier and more productive lives, our Sales teams embrace Edwards Lifesciences’ values to build trusting, lasting relationships with medical professionals and industry partners. Your insight and dedication will help deepen and broaden clinical knowledge of our company’s innovative technologies, while creating connections between providers and teams across our businesses to ensure patients receive the highest quality of care.
Patients with mitral and tricuspid heart valve disease often have complex conditions with limited treatment options. Our Transcatheter Mitral and Tricuspid Therapies (TMTT) business unit is boldly pursuing an innovative portfolio of technologies to address a patient’s unmet clinical needs. It’s our driving force to help patients live longer and healthier lives. Join us and be part of our inspiring journey.
This Clinical Specialist will support Sapien M3 (TMVR) clinical cases and customer engagement initiatives in Washington DC, Baltimore MD and North VA (DMV) metro areas and throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. Candidate based in local area preferred.
Field Clinical Specialists are hired to support a specific therapy or device within the TMTT portfolio, allowing for focused onboarding and deep clinical expertise. As the portfolio evolves, specialists are expected to crosstrain and expand their support to additional therapies based on business needs and demonstrated proficiency. Successful candidates bring adaptability, a commitment to continuous learning, and a longterm mindset to advance lifechanging therapies.
How you'll make an impact:
Educate physicians on device handling, implantation and troubleshooting techniques related to the equipment required for device implants
Coordinate one-on-one training sessions and in-service education programs in the hospital environment
Provide medical staff with clinical instructions to support the full continuum of patient care
Identify therapy adoption opportunities in collaboration with sales reps and managers in local geographies
Serve as the designated expert on Edwards products by sharing your knowledge and training hospital staff
Provide on-site, real-time guidance during clinical implants and proactively prepare contingency plans to address unforeseen occurrences
Document procedural case observations for regulatory requirements and ongoing continuous improvement
Collaborate with product development teams to provide feedback on device features and new device development
What you’ll need (Required):
- Associate’s Degree or equivalent work experience based on Edwards criteria required
- Minimum five (5) years related medical device and/or clinical procedure support experience required
- Experience with therapeutic implantable devices relative to interventional or cardiovascular clinical care
- A valid driver’s license with a clean driving record
- Ability and willingness to travel up to 75% (includes car, air, and overnight travel)
What else we look for (Preferred):
Experience in interventional cardiology or cardiac cath lab clinical procedures
Hands on echo-navigation imaging experience in intraprocedural structural heart or cardiac cath sonography (RDCS/RDS) a big plus
MPR (multiplanar reconstruction) experience and CT-imaging experience
Cardiac surgery experience
Clinical engineering experience from industry-related positions that support clinical development and clinical case support
Strong knowledge in cardiovascular science and valvular heart disease processes
Aligning our overall business objectives with performance, we offer competitive salaries, performance-based incentives, and a wide variety of benefits programs to address the diverse individual needs of our employees and their families.
or Maryland (MD) and Washington D.C., the base pay range for this position is $124,000 to $149,000 (highly experienced).
The pay for the successful candidate will depend on various factors (e.g., qualifications, education, prior experience). Applications will be accepted while this position is posted on our Careers website.
Requirements
- Associate’s Degree or equivalent work experience based on Edwards criteria required
- Minimum five (5) years related medical device and/or clinical procedure support experience required
- Experience with therapeutic implantable devices relative to interventional or cardiovascular clinical care
- A valid driver’s license with a clean driving record
- Ability and willingness to travel up to 75% (includes car, air, and overnight travel)
