Medical Education Specialist - Wound Care

ConvaTec

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Position Overview

Key position within our Medical Affairs function, primarily supporting Convatec’s nitric oxide next-generation adaptive platform (CNAP) business. Lead educational initiatives, including delivery of presentations at events and conferences, and authoring medical scientific content. Strategically partner with healthcare professionals (HCPs) and key opinion leaders (KOLs). Provide authoritative scientific and medical expertise to HCPs on, and relating to, our CNAP technology. Develop relationships with HCPs and clinical sites to support effective product evaluations, case studies, and long-term adoption. Engage with HCPs to capture clinician and user feedback, feeding back unmet needs to the CNAP core team.   

Key Responsibilities

Medical science expertise:

• Act as trusted scientific expert, delivering accurate and compliant medical science and clinical education to external stakeholders.

• Present complex data in a clear and compelling manner, in oral and written form.

• Represent Convatec at scientific conferences and industry events. 

• Partner with MSL and Medical Affairs colleagues to develop and disseminate new evidence.

Educational leadership:

• Deliver tailored educational programs to HCPs, ensuring dissemination of our latest scientific and clinical evidence.

• Participate in peer-to-peer educational exchanges, webinars, and scientific workshops to drive awareness, understanding and credibility of our technology.

• Collaborate with national Sales and Marketing colleagues to deliver local educational support.

Develop national KOL networks:

• Establish long-term, strategic relationships with HCPs, KOLs, and other stakeholders.  

• Collaborate with established and emerging KOLs on clinical evidence generation to validate our products.

• Proactively engage KOL networks to gather insights, inform clinical practice, and support the adoption of our innovative solutions.

Clinical and market insight:

• Collect product performance and user feedback for Research & Development (R&D), Medical & Clinical Affairs (MACA), and commercial teams to inform life cycle management, next-generation innovations, clinical study designs, and commercial strategies.

• Share insights, best practice, and data with MSL, Medical, Clinical and R&D colleagues.

Cross-functional collaboration and influence:

• Partner with internal cross-functional teams, including MACA, R&D, Regulatory, Marketing and national Market Access, to ensure integration of insights into our strategies.

• Act as the national scientific lead in supporting product launches, product evaluations, case studies, clinical investigations, and post-market surveillance efforts.

• Collect and present meaningful metrics on the impact of your HCP-facing meetings, presentations and training events.

Compliance:

• Ensure all scientific discussions and engagements with external stakeholders adhere to the highest ethical standards and comply with regulatory requirements.

• Provide scientifically accurate, balanced responses to off-label inquiries while upholding compliance and transparency standards, ensuring integrity of interactions. 

Skills & Experience

• At least 5 years in a scientific/medical education role, ideally in the wound care or medical device industry. Related fields such as infection management, pharmaceutical, or biotechnology, will be considered.

• Alternatively, at least 5 years in clinical practice in wound care or a related field.

• Proven track record of delivering compelling presentations of complex scientific/clinical data to HCPs, KOLs, and other key stakeholders. 

• Scientific and/or clinical credibility demonstrated by presentation and/or publication record.

• Solid grasp of statistics and scientific and clinical data interpretation. 

• A strong understanding of the wound care landscape, or a closely adjacent industry, will be advantageous.

• Adaptability to rapidly master new scientific and clinical areas through training. 

Qualifications/Education

• PhD, MSc or similar higher degree in the biomedical (e.g. medicine, nursing, pathology, regenerative medicine) or biological sciences (e.g., biochemistry, molecular biology, microbiology, cell biology, immunology).

• Time-served experience in relevant scientific or clinical roles will be considered in lieu of academic experience.

Travel Requirements

• Position will involve regular national and occasional international travel, up to 50% of the time, with overnight stays. 

Working Conditions

• Remote working, with internal meetings at national and regional offices depending on business requirements.

• Attendance of national and occasional international conferences is required and may require working occasional weekends.

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