Sr Prin Field Clinical Research Specialist
Mdtkangaroo · Virtual, Pennsylvania, United States · remote
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 17 Nov 2026
At MiniMed, you can begin a lifelong career of exploration and innovation, while helping make a difference in the lives of people living with diabetes around the globe. You'll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation for a more connected, compassionate world.
About the Role
MniMed is seeking an experienced Sr. Principal Field Clinical Research Specialist to support and lead clinical research initiatives, ensuring high-quality clinical data and compliance with applicable regulatory requirements. This role will collaborate cross-functionally with clinical, medical, and research teams to support study execution, site management, and overall clinical trial success. The position is fully remote and open to candidates anywhere in the United States, with travel required as needed to support clinical study activities. We’re looking for a seasoned clinical research professional with strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.A key member of the team to lead the technical aspects of New Venture programs. In this exciting role as a Field Clinical Research Specialist, you will have responsibility for providing technical diabetes leadership to the Centers of Excellence and cross-functional New Venture programs.
DIABETESTransforming diabetes care together, for greater freedom and better health. Our strategy is to become a holistic diabetes management company focused on making a real difference in outcomes and cost. We want to transform healthcare toward value-based models by driving both product and business model innovation with the goal of elevating patient experience, improving clinical outcomes and lowering the total cost of care for our customers.
We value what makes you unique. Be a part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations. Visit https://www.minimed.com/ to see an overview of the product portfolio.
NEW VENTURESNew Ventures is focused on developing new diabetes systems, products and solutions in an inorganic, accelerator environment. Our team is unique in that we can adapt to a variety of business, patient and marketplace needs that span the entire spectrum of our product portfolio today and in the future. Our mission drives the need to be a highly skilled, flexible, extremely efficient, versatile and agile in medical device product development for the benefit of our patients with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes in need of intensive insulin therapy.
FIELD CLINICAL RESEARCH SPECIALISTIn this exciting role as a Field Clinical Research Specialist, you will be responsible for overseeing and executing clinical programs for a powerful, developing therapy to treat a small but critical cohort of patients on a humanitarian basis. Leveraging a broad and diverse clinical experience and skillset, you will provide clinical and technical leadership to key centers, HCPs and patients on a national and international level.
The Clinical Specialist will support research and development in evaluating concepts for new therapy and product development and the modification of existing devices; serving as a clinical resource between engineering, leadership, clinical research, and the medical community. Among these responsibilities, the highest priority is given to the support of patients. We will strive to empower people with diabetes to live life on their terms by delivering a pump that truly matters and providing support in ways that is needed. We are committed to meeting people with diabetes in their journey, always with an aim to make their life easier. Our focus is to provide a better life, better health, greater freedom and extend their lives of people living with diabetes.
A Day in the Life
- Technically lead field activities such as selecting sites, performing activation duties such as certification of clinical centers both nationally and internationally, providing training, helping to enroll participants, providing technical support and ensuring quality data acquisition.
- Identify and support new clinics that may want to establish capability based on existing clinical models
- Identify and educate new patients, physicians on new therapy development
- Troubleshoot clinical and technical issues related to therapy and product
- Provide clinical input for user needs, product development, and user validation by providing feedback on patient voice for current and next generation product.
- Train and mentor clinical staff and product development team
- Oversees and interpret results of clinical investigations in preparation for new drug device or consumer application.
- Build and maintain optimal relationships and effective collaborations with various internal and external parties.
- Oversee and resolve operational aspects of clinical trials in conjunction with project teams and in accordance with standard operating procedures (SOP), good clinical practice (GCP) and specific country regulations and may prepare clinical trial budgets.
- Support clinical logistics with key centers, HCPs and patients for clinical research activities on a national and international level
- Support IRB submissions for next generation product
- Support the geographical expansion of centers
REQUIREMENTSTo be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident on your resume.
Required Education and years of experience:
- Bachelor’s degree required and minimum of 7 years of clinical research experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5years clinical research experience
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Desired qualifications
- Degree in engineering, life sciences, or related medical/scientific field.
- Clinical Research (Lead) experience at Medtronic or within a medical device industry.
- Experience working on a Global study team
- Experience in Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and/or regulatory compliance guidelines for clinical trials.
- Experience in managing multiple clinical research sites with proven results in study execution
- Experience in managing clinical trial data review.
- Ability to incorporate and adhere to good clinical practices and regulatory standards.
- Ability to identify and implement solutions in addressing study issues.
- Basic understanding of biostatistics and trial design.
- Proficient knowledge of medical terminology.
- Proficiency in MS Office applications: Excel, PowerPoint and Word, Project (or similar scheduling software), project management techniques and tools; and web-based applications.
- Excellent project management and organization skills.
The physical demands described within the Day in the Life section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.
The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.
Benefits & Compensation
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