Clinical Research Scientist II

Abbott • Plymouth, MN

20h • Onsite

About The Position

Abbott is a global healthcare leader dedicated to helping people live more fully at all stages of life, with a portfolio spanning diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals, and branded generic medicines. The company has 115,000 colleagues serving over 160 countries. This Clinical Research Scientist II position is located in St. Paul, MN, within Abbott's Electrophysiology (EP) division, which focuses on advancing heart disease treatment through breakthrough medical technologies for atrial fibrillation. The role involves participating in scientific activities related to the design, conduct, and reporting of clinical trials for this therapeutic area, working closely with clinical study teams and interacting with leadership and regulatory authorities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in the sciences, medicine, or similar discipline
• 4 + years of related work experience with a solid understanding of specified functional area, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Demonstrated scientific writing ability
• Broad knowledge and application of business concepts, procedures and practices
• Will perform this job in a quality system environment. Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in noncompliance with governmental regulations
• Learns to use professional concepts and company policies and procedures to solve routine problems
• Works on problems of limited scope
• Independent decision making required

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree preferred
• Works on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors
• Exercises judgment within broadly defined practices and policies in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
• Experience in the medical device industry

Responsibilities

• Execute job responsibilities within corporate policies and standard operating procedures
• Lead the generation of study-related documents and/or contribute content and oversight of such documents, including, but not limited to, clinical study reports, clinical study protocols, case report forms, investigational brochures, and informed consent forms
• Design clinical trials and studies in collaboration with internal stake holders including clinical project management, clinical operations, biostatistics data management, regulatory affairs, medical affairs as well as external stake holders including steering and publication committees
• 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 internal teams
• Support the Clinical Program Director in developing clinical evidence generation strategy
• 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
• Review and critically analyze statistical analysis plans
• Generate documents to support regulatory submissions for Abbott products and/or respond to questions from regulatory authorities about existing submissions

Benefits

• 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 high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU 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 around the world 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 a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists
• Health and wellness benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees