Senior Staff Clinical Evaluation Specialist (Remote)

Work Flexibility: Remote or Hybrid or Onsite

Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 130 million patients annually. More information is available at www.stryker.com

Who we want

• Dedicated achievers. Relentless about quality, people who thrive in a fast-paced environment and will stop at nothing to ensure a project is complete and meets regulations and expectations.

• Collaborative partners. People who build and leverage cross-functional relationships to bring together ideas, information, use cases, and industry analyses to develop best practices.

Stryker Instruments is seeking a Senior Clinical Evaluation Specialist to be based remotely anywhere in the United States.

What you will do

As the Senior Clinical Evaluation Specialist, you will be a proactive and independent team player with a strong service mentality. This position is characterized by analytical and transdisciplinary reasoning, with excellent attention to detail. This position values an international working environment, working across sites and indications.

• Develop and implement a comprehensive clinical evidence strategy throughout the new product development cycle, considering regulatory requirements, intended use, and risk classification. Responsible for global clinical development plan for all key regions including proposed Market Access and Sustaining activities.  
• Collaborate with regulatory affairs on Clinical Evidence requirements to ensure the successful acceptance of regulatory submissions.
• Foster alignment with adjacent complex processes such as marketing strategy and claims, regulatory strategy, clinical research strategy, or reimbursement strategy (where applicable).
• Oversees clinical documentation to validate device safety and performance for regulatory body submissions and perform periodic updates to maintain compliance (e.g., CERs, CEPs, PMCFRs, PMCFPs, SSCPs).
• Support the needs of other functions (R&D, Marketing, Clinical Research, Reimbursement) regarding communication of clinical data in the form of peer-reviewed publications, white papers, 1-pagers, clinical summaries, posters, and slide decks/presentations.
• Design compliant and sustainable literature search strategies and performs systematic reviews to capture and summarize published clinical data.
• Analyze current medical and scientific trends in the clinical State of the Art on a broad variety of specialized indications and techniques.
• Acts as the dedicated Clinical Evaluation Project Manager, driving the establishment of a coherent Clinical Evidence strategy
• throughout the new product development cycle and fosters alignment with adjacent processes as applicable (e.g., marketing strategy and claims, regulatory strategy, clinical research strategy, preclinical testing strategy).
• Identifies, appraises, and analyzes relevant clinical, post-market surveillance, marketing, and preclinical testing data to create comprehensive scientific reviews, which may include in-depth quantitative analyses, qualitative analyses, and risk management cross-checks.
• Forms a conclusion on the overall benefit-risk profile of the subject device, in collaboration with a Medical Expert and other stakeholders, based on up-to-date US, European, and other country’s regulatory requirements.
• Identifies unanswered questions and residual risks in the Clinical Evidence and designs Post Market Clinical Follow Up activities in collaboration with Clinical Research to address these questions.
• Represent expertise during internal and external quality system audits.
• Support design of clinical evidence gathering activities (such as clinical trials, PMCF studies, registries, surveys) to support clinical evidence needs in collaboration with the clinical research team executing the studies.
• Support creation of study synopses and clinical investigation plans to support market clearance and/or required post-market surveillance.
• Review promotional and/or marketing material to support product launches, market access, etc.

What you need

• University degree (PhD, MD, Master’s or equivalent) in a field related to the life sciences or a relevant medical engineering field (biology, physiology, biomaterials, biomedical engineering or similar).
• Minimum of 6 years industry experience in clinical, quality or regulatory affairs (Risk Management, Design quality, Post Market Safety etc.)
• Ability to write, review, and provide training on detailed technical regulatory submissions, reports, and/or business correspondence
• 2 to 5 years of experience in Scientific or Medical Writing, and/or relevant academic or clinical research experience (PhD, Post-doc)
• Experience in clinical, regulatory, or quality affairs preferred.
• Experience with medical devices preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to read, analyze, and interpret regulations, technical standards, guidance documents, test reports, clinical and medical terminology, technical product information, and complex documents.
• Good understanding of clinical regulations for major regions.                                                                                                
• Successful track record in managing complex projects.
• Documented expertise on one or more disciplines linked to clinical evaluation (e.g. regulatory requirements, data analysis, critical appraisal etc)
• Ability to write, review, and provide training on detailed technical regulatory submissions, reports, and business correspondence.
• Ability to train and mentor junior team members
• Demonstrated ability to drive innovation and set direction within the group in internal procedures and best practices.
• Ability to effectively present information to other employees, management, and regulatory agencies.
• Excellent MS Office Skills and IT proficiency.

• $98,000 - $168,600 salary plus bonus eligible + benefits. Actual minimum and maximum may vary based on location. Individual pay is based on skills, experience, and other relevant factors.

Travel Percentage: 20%

Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.

Stryker Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.

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