Clinical Specialist MitraClip & TriClip

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• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Competitive salaries, bonus potential and excellent package of benefits.
• 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.
  
  

The Opportunity

For our Structural Heart Division SH we are currently looking for a Sales & Clinical Specialist MitraClip & TriClip to join our great team in Israel. This will be a field-based position requiring daily travelling across the country.

Main Purpose Of The Job

• Responsible for providing clinical case coverage of our TMTI (MitraClip & TriClip) technology.
• Recruit patients by working closely with physicians and directly calling on referral sources.
• Assist cardiologists in the of potential patients. In providing clinical coverage, train interventional cardiologists, Cath lab staff, and ancillary personnel on the use of our TMTI system, and provide technical support to physicians during procedures.
• Responsible for data dissemination in his sites and among referral chain of influence.
  
  

What You'll Do

Proctoring

• Be proctor certified according to the Abbott Structural Heart training process.
• Provide technical support to clinicians during TMTI procedures.
• Demonstrate procedural steps for all involved physicians and staff at sites.
• Assist Cath lab personnel with set-up and break-down for procedures and with product handling/inventory management.
• Implement field based physician and staff training programs.
  
  

Site Management

• Collaborate with center to provide good clinical outcomes for the patients.
• Facilitate communication among the diverse constituents (Interventionalists, Echocardiologists, sonographers, cardiac anesthesiologists, CV surgeons, Cath lab management, etc.) that need to work together effectively to generate patients for treatment, procedure scheduling, and successful clinical outcomes.
• Manage logistics between the site and Abbott Structural Heart related to procedural support.
  
  

Patient Recruitment / referral

• Screen patients and create detailed reports to ensure that site personnel have the skills required to determine patient eligibility.
• Organize outreach events for referring physicians: dinner presentations, CME courses, etc.
• Optimize process regarding patient screening and procedure scheduling
  
  

Patient Selection

• Keep medical team informed about patient selection criteria
• Share own experience with Doctors in order to help them to refine their patient selection
  
  

Data Dissemination

• Will disseminate data during “clinical campaigns”
• Will attend EHQ training in order to keep knowledge up to date
  
  

Required Experience And Background

• University degree in life sciences or marketing preferred.
• Ideally prior experience in Medical Clinical Support/Sales, Medical training (RN, EMT, Perfusion, etc.).
• Strong clinical orientation: training clinicians and providing technical assistance during procedures, including trouble-shooting.
• Versatile: able to influence a variety of clinician personality types.
• Compliant: respect all rules set by Abbott.
• Strong analytical skills: able to identify and resolve issues and to adapt best practices across institutions.
• Unsurpassed communication and interpersonal skills: to build relationships and obtain results.
• Well developed computer skills.
• Ability to work in a team environment that rewards contribution.
• Ability to work with 2D visualization to construct mental 3D device position.
• Willingness to travel from time to time (Training, procedure coverage).
• Ability to work long hours in a cath lab (in lead) at least several days per week.
• Fluent in English and Hebrew.
• Proven track record in the clinical introduction of sophisticated therapeutic, procedure-enabling devices that requires significant clinician training.
• Experience with products for use in interventional cardiology, cardiac rhythm management or cardiac surgery; experience in sales of new concepts; familiarity of echocardiography or other indirect imaging is strongly preferred.
  
  

If you wish to apply for the role, submit your CV in English.

Please note, only applications in English will be taken into consideration.

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