Clinical Research Scientist II

Abbott Laboratories • Plymouth, MN

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Abbott is a global healthcare leader with 115,000 colleagues serving people in over 160 countries, offering life-changing technologies in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals, and branded generic medicines. This specific position is for a Clinical Research Scientist II within the Electrophysiology division, located in St. Paul, MN. The Electrophysiology business focuses on advancing the treatment of heart disease through breakthrough medical technologies for atrial fibrillation. The Clinical Research Scientist II will be involved in scientific activities related to the design, conduct, and reporting of clinical trials for this therapeutic area, collaborating closely with the clinical study team 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.
• 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 their job responsibilities within the 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.
• FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• Health and wellness benefits.

What This Job Offers

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