At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You'll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.
**A Day in the Life**
At Medtronic, the Therapy Awareness Consultant is responsible for driving therapy penetration and new user adoption of Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy (DPN) in existing and new accounts. Through job related synergies in technical expertise, rep training, and end user training, this individual will drive DPN through their technical and sales aptitude. This individual will also represent Medtronic in accordance with its policies and in the area assigned, maintaining an awareness of local competitive conditions and report back promptly to the Pain Interventions leadership team.
This is a **field based** role.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
Drive therapy awareness and remove barriers to patient access of approved treatments.
Enhance And Develop Indication Awareness Within
Primary Care, General Medicine, Internal Medicine, Family Medicine
Endocrinology
Podiatry
Neurology
Spine surgeons
Other
Engage and educate existing or prospective HCP's and staff on the value, data/evidence, and opportunity to offer different pain interventional therapies to patient's suffering from chronic pain
Provide patients and primary providers approved resources, information, and guidance to help improve access to care
Assist local team in communicating with treating physician and primary physician
Serve as a district resource to help team members expand and implement therapy awareness programs
Conduct therapy advocacy and awareness activities and in-services with prospective patients
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.
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**Qualifications**
**Must Have: Minimum Requirements**
-To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident on your resume.-
Bachelor's Degree and 3 years of medical sales or relevant healthcare experience.
Nice To Have
Pharmaceutical sales experience
Existing relationships with key PCP, Endocrinology, Podiatry, Neurology accounts
Market development experience for therapies/procedures
Knowledge of DPN and SCS disease state(s) and/or neuromodulation therapies
Experience with patient interaction/education
Strong understanding of healthcare referral pathways and networks
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Adept relationship-building skills
Team player/ collaboration skills
Strong organizational skills, including strong follow-up and follow-through
**Other Job Requirements**
Required to function using healthcare universal precautions to minimize exposure to infectious disease and radiation
Ability to serve as the primary resource for scheduled and unscheduled clinical events, periodically required to work weekends, evenings and nights and may be required to engage in overnight travel within own district or neighboring districts
Ability to work efficiently and autonomously with little direction when outside of clinical events
Ability to attend national meetings, district meetings and other training as requested
Ability to wear a 7-9 lbs protective lead apron for extended periods of time in the operating room
Ability to lift up to 40 pounds
Ability to sitting, standing, and/or walking for 8+ hours per day
Ability to bend/stoop, squat and balance frequently
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus in relation to travel and operating a personal computer.
Must have a valid driver's license and active vehicle insurance policy. In addition, your driving record will be reviewed and will be considered as part of your application. Must be able to drive approximately 50% of the time within assigned territory and may require overnight travel.
**Business Description**
Medtronic pioneered the field of neuromodulation with the first commercially available spinal cord stimulator to treat chronic pain and engineered the first deep brain stimulation (DBS) system to treat movement disorders and the first implantable drug pump to deliver medication directly to the intrathecal space of the spine. More than 40 years later, we continue to innovate, constantly challenging ourselves to disrupt the markets we created. We advance science by thinking and acting boldly, bringing together the right people with the right breadth of expertise to engineer groundbreaking therapies and technologies.
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**About Medtronic**
Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.
We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let's work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients' lives. Help us shape the future.
**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 es
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