Clinical Specialist - Vascular Device - Northeast Region - MZA55465

Surmodics is hiring a Clinical Specialist – Vascular Device

IQVIA will be partnering with Surmodics to provide recruiting support for this position. Please note, the individual hired for this position will work directly for Surmodics.

The Surmodics Clinical Specialist will be primarily responsible for taking new product concepts and existing medical devices into customer sites to obtain product feedback and clinical experience which includes identifying customer needs, capturing product-related feedback and evaluating competitive differentiation. An important role will be to objectively translate this feedback to product development and business teams to inform product design decisions and improvements. The Clinical Specialist is also responsible for:

• Training, education and establishing practice standards that incorporate Company products into the customer’s clinical environment.
• Product presentations (one-on-one or group in-services), providing clinical expertise as it relates to product usage in indicated clinical procedures; including coordinating lunch & learns, educational events, training symposia, regional conferences as appropriate
• Serving as the clinical liaison between product/business teams and end-user customers
• Maintaining sample inventories, distribute samples, comply with sample accountability procedures and policies, comply with the Prescription Drug Marketing Act of 1987 (“PDMA”) and AdvaMed Guidelines
• Complying with Promotional Program, and proper use of Promotional Materials and Promotional Expense Budgets

Qualifications:

• Required: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college/university required, ideally in field of medical technology, biology, chemistry or other life sciences OR commensurate education and/or clinical experience equivalent to a Nurse or Certified Technician
• Minimum 5 years of hands on medical/clinical experience required
• Previous experience in radial access and/or thrombectomy procedures preferred
• Experience working with CRM software preferred
• Confident in Cath-lab setting in hospital, ASC and OBL setting
• Clinical background preferred
• Travel within territory required- up to 75%, with 2-3 overnight stays a week, additional travel as needed throughout the U.S. is possible

Strong Skills and Abilities needed with:

• Presentation and communication (verbal and written) skills
  • Polished presence
  • Demonstrates confidence in all actions

• Customer Focus with an ability to interact and relate well with medical professionals (HCPs, nurses, office staff)
  • Interpersonal skills with an ability to build effective and lasting relationships with customers
• Technical skills that correlates to a deep understanding and ability to demonstrate medical devices and educate on procedure-related topics
  • Masters new technology quickly
• Planning, organization, and attention to detail- highly responsive to company and customer needs
• Self-motivated and directed; ability to take initiative and adapt to fast-changing environment
• Maintain understanding and full compliance to company compliance programs and policies. Operate within industry guidelines related to AdvaMed, Sunshine Act, and other regulations that provide a framework for appropriate interaction with healthcare professionals
• Teamwork – integrates with product development, marketing and sales team

Surmodics is the global leader in surface modification technologies for vascular medical devices and a leading provider of chemical components for in vitro diagnostic (IVD) tests and microarrays. It is a unique company with combined capabilities in device-drug delivery, lubricity and hemocompatibility technologies, as well as medical device design, development and manufacturing that enable it to significantly increase the value offered to medical device customers. Surmodics is focused on developing highly differentiated, total vascular device solutions to the most demanding clinical challenges. The vision is to provide 3 of the top 10 innovations to treat peripheral artery disease within the next 5 years. 

The company’s R&D pipeline has an extensive history of innovation and is rich with novel development programs within the field of vascular medicine. Current areas of focus include drug-coated balloon platforms, radial access platform products and thrombectomy for arterial thrombosis, DVT and Stroke.

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