Clinical Scientist II

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Clinical Scientist II

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You'll also have access to:

Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.

An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution

Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/tackling-student-debt-for-our-employees.html)

student debt program, and FreeU (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/college-degree-for-free-its-possible-with-freeu.html)

education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor's degree.

A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to join our rapidly growing clinical team within the Abbott Structural Heart division in our Santa Clara, CA location. Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life by designing and providing device and management solutions for treating structural heart disease.

The Clinical Scientist II will provide scientific expertise throughout the development and execution of clinical strategies (e.g. clinical trials, scientific publications) to support evidence generation for transcatheter mitral programs. He/she will design clinical trials from concept to execution by working collaboratively with biostatistics, medical affairs, regulatory affairs, global clinical operations, and other cross-functional team members. The individual will also be interacting with regulatory agencies, reimbursement agencies and clinical trial investigators to ensure successful execution of clinical strategies to meet corporate goals.

What You'll Work On

This position will work closely within the clinical study team including the medical director, biostatistician, project management, data management, and other clinical study personnel. This position will have significant interaction with senior leadership, physicians and regulatory authorities. Furthermore, this position will be required to execute their job responsibilities within the corporate policies and standard operating procedures.

This position will:

Design clinical trials and studies in collaboration with internal stake holders including clinical project management, clinical operations, clinical science, biostatistics data management, regulatory affairs, medical affairs as well as external stake holders including steering committees, and national principal investigators (if applicable).

Lead the generation of study-related documents and/or contribute content and oversight of such documents, including, but not limited to, clinical study protocols, case report forms, clinical study reports, and informed consent forms

Develop the scientific podium and publication strategy in close collaboration with cross-functional teams, and lead the execution of the publication strategy

Lead publications for clinical study data through coordination with investigator authors and project management of reviews and revisions for abstracts and manuscripts

Support the Clinical Program Director in developing clinical evidence generation plans

Interface with key opinion leaders and physician collaborators

Serve as an active member of study teams and provide scientific support to justify trial design and ongoing scientific analysis during protocol development. May include generation of pre-protocol documentation of scientific information

Synthesize literature and competitive information across multiple products and/or therapies within the assigned therapeutic area

Review and critically analyze statistical analysis plans

Clearly communicate scientific concepts to internal and external collaborators

Lead study level (and franchise level where applicable) publication planning

Generate documents to support regulatory submissions for Abbott products and/or respond to questions from regulatory authorities about existing submissions

Contribute to the optimization of internal processes and workflows

Develop new ideas for both external and internal projects

Attend, present at meetings with FDA.

Performs other related duties and responsibilities, on occasion, as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelors' degree required; degree in sciences, medicine or similar disciplines.

Minimum of 4+ years of related work experience with a complete understanding of specified functional area, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

Advanced degree preferred

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Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

The base pay for this position is $86,700.00 - $173,300.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.

We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.

To request accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email corpjat@abbott.com