WHAT YOU’LL DO
• Provide field support for clinical research related enrollment and procedures in specified therapy area.
• Serve as a technology, protocol and clinical trial procedure expert and resource to Abbott stakeholders, physicians, and research personnel at the site.
• Proactively, and with minimal oversight, maintain and develop a productive clinical territory:
o Develop and maintain knowledge of clinical sites in the assigned territory.
Understand and assess investigators’ interests and qualifications.
Identify appropriate investigators as defined by study-specific requirements and by the applicable regulatory code.
Maintain open communication and relationships with key site personnel including the Principal Investigator, Research Coordinator, as well as regulatory and legal personnel.
o Use critical thinking to identify issues, address them, and create plans to augment success or prevent recurrence of variances from site expectations.
Facilitate communication between clinical sites and other Abbott clinical staff (e.g., CSL, CRA, study team, Contracts Associate), as needed.
o Work with sites to develop capabilities to take on more complex trials, or larger volume of trials.
• Manage the following aspects of study progress:
o Start Up
o Nominate, approach, and complete qualification processes including establishing site/sponsor expectations for study execution.
o Facilitate contract/budget escalations as part of the start-up process.
o Train facility staff regarding protocol requirements and technology.
o Enrollment
Develop site-specific strategies to promote appropriate patient enrollment.
Identify site successes and challenges and assist in implementing troubleshooting techniques that promote study goal achievement.
o Provide ongoing feedback concerning all aspects of study progress, specifically enrollment and procedure related, for the purpose of developing and implementing strategies that will optimize patient safety and contribute to organizational and corporate goals/objectives.
o Provide support for all study-related aspects to research partners, including but not limited to the following questions: technical, protocol, standard of care, clinical trial reimbursement, etc.
• Responsible for product reporting and troubleshooting with customers and field personnel within the BU clinical research portfolio
• Work with territory Clinical Site Leads to share best practices and develop capabilities to optimize trial data quality
• Collaborate with and provide feedback to Clinical Scientists, study teams, and Clinical Site Leads on study design and procedure and product experiences.
• Identify and communicate best practices relevant to clinical trial execution.
• Seek opportunities to continue demonstrating and developing technical, research, and organizational leadership qualities.
• Collaborate with Clinical Affairs, Medical Affairs, R&D, marketing, and commercial teams to support and advance key BU projects.
• Serve as a scientific interface with healthcare professionals.
• Act as resource in corporate product education as it relates to investigative technologies, as necessary: development and review of training materials, presentations, regional and national product launches, and BU commercial field education.
• Develop collaborative cross-divisional team relationships.
• Function as a “pipeline” between Abbott and the medical community, constantly communicating important information to customers, within the Clinical Affairs group and to other departments (product planning, med affairs, engineering, marketing and education). This includes providing product feedback, comments and suggestions and Competitive information to the Product Planning and Marketing groups.
