Medical Affairs Manager

Additional Location(s): US-AZ-Flagstaff; US-AZ-Lake Havasu; US-AZ-Phoenix; US-AZ-Tucson; US-AZ-Yuma; US-CA-Anaheim/Huntington Beach; US-CA-Campbell; US-CA-Carlsbad; US-CA-Central Coast; US-CA-Central Valley; US-CA-Chico/Eureka; US-CA-Fremont; US-CA-Irvine; US-CA-Laguna Hills; US-CA-Long Beach; US-CA-Los Angeles; US-CA-Los Gatos; US-CA-Menlo Park; US-CA-Modesto; US-CA-Mountain View; US-CA-North Bay; US-CA-Oakland/East Bay; US-CA-Orange County; US-CA-Sacramento; US-CA-San Bernardino/Palm Springs; US-CA-San Bruno; US-CA-San Clemente; US-CA-San Diego; US-CA-San Francisco; US-CA-San Jose; US-CA-Santa Barbara; US-CA-Santa Rosa; US-CA-Silicon Valley; US-CA-Stockton; US-CA-Sunnyvale; US-CA-Turlock; US-CA-Valencia; US-CA-Ventura County; US-CO-Boulder/Fort Collins; US-CO-Colorado Springs; US-CO-Denver; US-CO-Denver South; US-CO-Western/Grand Junction; US-WA-Bellevue/Redmond; US-WA-Central/Yakima; US-WA-Eastern/Spokane; US-WA-Seattle; US-WA-Tacoma/Olympia

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At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.

About this role:

Boston Scientific is seeking a dynamic and driven Medical Affairs Manager to join our team. The Medical Affairs Manager will play a crucial role in supporting the strategic direction of medical affairs for specific therapeutic areas, ensuring clinical insights are integrated into different product plans, and ensuring alignment with regulatory and compliance guidelines. This role offers a unique opportunity to work cross-functionally with internal and external stakeholders to drive innovation and support life-changing healthcare solutions.

This position is open for remote candidates. You will have the opportunity to discuss your preferred working location with your Talent Acquisition Specialist.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Clinical Expertise: Provide medical and scientific support to internal teams, ensuring clinical data is properly communicated and leveraged for decision-making.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Develop and maintain relationships with key opinion leaders (KOLs), healthcare professionals (HCPs), and academic institutions to gather insights and advocate for the safe and effective use of Boston Scientific products.
• Medical Education and Training: Design and deliver medical education programs for internal teams, healthcare professionals, and external stakeholders.
• Clinical Trial Support: Oversee and provide guidance on clinical studies, including study implementation, site selection and data dissemination. Collaborate with clinical operations to ensure alignment with scientific and commercial goals.
• Critical Skillsets: Strategic thinking and planning; project management; clinically and technically astute, very comfortable presenting and discussing clinical data with physicians.
• Understand and strategically deploy Medical Education and Clinical Communication resources at identified institutions by matching the institutions’ clinical data and clinical communication needs, as well as fellows educational and physician/HCP skills training needs to BSC resources.
• Create strategic Medical Affairs plans for assigned institutions and geography.
• Engage identified HCPs, KOLs and regional thought leaders to demonstrate the clinical outcome and benefits of company products, technologies and therapies, to exchange clinical, safety and comparative-effectiveness information, to explore clinical areas of need and to discuss corporate initiatives.
• Effectively execute activities of major significance to the organization and serve as primary point of contact between institution and BSC MedEd/ClinComm.
• Identify key opinion leaders (KOLs) in the industry, expert speakers, and well-known academicians who can deliver defined curriculum as well as provide technical and clinical insight with real-world applications of Boston Scientific products for use at Medical Education programs.
• Assist in the execution of Medical Education program clinical tasks to include agenda development, faculty selection, needs assessment development support, acting as clinical lead for a program, review of presentations, faculty invitations and correspondence, and assistance with Technology Expo. Assist with the strategic planning and execution of local medical educational initiatives within assigned geography.
• Maintain connection to specific franchises regarding developments in clinical data, commercial initiatives, and product updates or availability to both inform functions with VOC and to enable leveraging of the information with HCPs/institutions as appropriate.
• Assist in activities related to Investigator Sponsored Research and Grant requests as appropriate and required

Required qualifications:

• Minimum bachelor's degree required in healthcare or related field
• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in medical affairs or a related field within the healthcare or medical device industry.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships with KOLs, HCPs, and internal stakeholders.
• Upto 75% travel required

Preferred qualifications:

• Strong leadership capabilities, with experience managing and mentoring teams. 
•  Preferred master's degree (MBA, MSc, MS, SM, MM, MHA, M.Bus, MASc)
•  Ability to manage simultaneous priorities, changing deadlines, and limited resources
•  Strategic skills and experience developing account-level or product-level business/strategic plans
•  High sense of urgency, attention to detail, and commitment to execution

 Requisition ID: 591586

The expected annualized base pay range this full-time position working at this location will be from $109,800 to $208,800 plus annual bonus (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements) and the value of core and optional employee benefits being offered at BSC, which can be reviewed at www.bscbenefitsconnect.com. At BSC, it is not typical for an individual to be hired near the bottom or top of the pay range. Boston Scientific considers various factors in determining actual compensation for this position at the expected location. Actual compensation will be commensurate with a demonstrable level of experience and training, pertinent education including licensure and certifications, and other relevant business or organizational needs. Actual compensation may be otherwise adjusted if the position is filled outside of the intended geographic location.

Among other requirements, Boston Scientific maintains specific prohibited substance test requirements for safety-sensitive positions.  This role is deemed safety-sensitive and, as such, candidates will be subject to a prohibited substance test as a requirement.  The goal of the prohibited substance testing is to increase workplace safety in compliance with the applicable law.  

Boston Scientific Corporation has been and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. To ensure full implementation of its equal employment policy, the Company will continue to take steps to assure that recruitment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, and all other personnel decisions are made and administered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, gender expression, veteran’s status, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information or any other protected class.