Vascular Field Technologist - Phoenix or Dallas

Medtronic • Phoenix, AZ

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About The Position

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world. This position acts as a field-based District liaison for inventory activities between Field Personnel, Customers and our internal support teams (Global Supply Chain, Distribution, Customer Care, Marketing and IT) while reporting directly into the US PVH Field Inventory Manager. This role is designed to learn the vascular business, through inventory management, clinical product knowledge and case coverage. This is an entry level role designed to self-develop into a future vascular clinical or sales representative. Medtronic leads global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions. Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people. We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree required.
• Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with 0 years of experience.
• Must have valid driver’s license with clean record and subject to regular driver’s license review for compliance purposes.
• For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

Nice To Haves

• Thorough working knowledge of medical terminology, medical procedures, and the medical device industry.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
• Effectively build and maintain positive relationships with peers and colleagues across organizational levels.
• Strong project management skills and experience coordinating programs.
• Ability to coordinate/participate in numerous tasks/projects in a fast-paced environment in an organized manner while meeting deadlines.
• Strong work ethic in accomplishing objectives of the position.
• Expertise with Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

Responsibilities

• Partner with field-based Clinical Service Managers, Clinical Specialists, Sales Reps and District Managers within the team to ensure the right product is in the right place at the right time.
• Optimize return on invested inventory across the district.
• Reposition under-performing inventory to accounts with revenue growth opportunity.
• Communicate and facilitate the execution of inventory management initiatives with sales and service teams.
• Serve as district expert for inventory-related processes.
• Partner with cross-functional partners and stakeholders to drive action appropriately.
• Conduct cycle counts of inventory at customer accounts.
• Assist with resolving discrepant inventory levels.
• Recommend and monitor inventory levels in alignment with customer segmentation and pricing & contracting strategies.
• Coordinate and execute Phase-In and Phase-Out activities for product launches.
• Mitigate field inventory related expenses (scrap, obsolescence, and physical gain/loss).
• Assist sales field or lead efforts in accounts to obtain signed Consignment Agreements (CA) and Inventory Schedules (IS).
• Promotes and supports Medtronic's Vascular products and services within an assigned geographic area and /or specific customer accounts to meet or exceed sales targets.
• Responsible for developing, building, and strengthening long-term relationships with stakeholders including key decision makers, customers and their staff, and administrators that drive business and therapy adoption.
• Responsible for pursuing leads, assessing needs, and providing product services to maximize the benefits derived from Medtronic's Vascular products and/or services to understand and confirm customer needs, effectively engages, and overcomes customer objections.
• Promotes and establishes education of the company's products and/or services.
• Conducts and/or evaluates market research including customers and competitor’s activities.
• Develops and/or implements market development plans/strategies and changes as needed.
• Assesses customer needs and feedback regarding new products and/or modifications to existing products and communicates to internal stakeholders including R&D, Operations and Marketing.
• Establishes effective relationships and collaborates with other departments (Marketing, Finance, HR, Sales Training, etc.) to address key business issues and opportunities.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
• Health, Dental and vision insurance
• Health Savings Account
• Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
• Life insurance
• Long-term disability leave
• Dependent daycare spending account
• Tuition assistance/reimbursement
• Simple Steps (global well-being program)
• Incentive plans
• 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match
• Short-term disability
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Employee Assistance Program
• Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums)
• Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums)
• Paid sick time (for temporary employees, as required under applicable state law)

What This Job Offers

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