Job Description

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

In this exciting role as a Data Scientist, the incumbent will leverage his/her knowledge and experience in statistical programming and device database skills to support all statistical programming activities in clinical studies. You will join a Statistical Programming/Data Science team, as a part of the CRM Clinical Biostatistics and Data Science. Partnering with Statisticians, Data Management and Study Managers, the groups support clinical studies in Electrophysiology Therapies and conduct efforts in data-based clinical evidence generation including and not limited to coordinating programming activities among the study programmers to achieve timely deliveries in the following areas: ADaM-like or analysis datasets, statistical tables, listings, and figures (TLFs), data reconciliation reports, and other internal and external reports.

Data Scientists in the medical device industry uses SAS and R to analyze clinical trial data, validate algorithms, and ensure compliance with strict health regulations. They play a critical role in evaluating device safety, efficacy, and performance before and after market launch. This role reports to the Sr. Manager, Statistics at Medtronic Electrophysiology Therapies and is with primary location Heerlen, The Netherlands. Less than 5% travel time as needed.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Designs, plans, and executes Statistical Programming components of plans for clinical projects that establish the conditions essential for determining safety, efficacy, and marketability of medical device products
• Uses sound statistical programming terminology to conduct studies relating to the life cycle of the product
• Responsible for creating programs to develop, validate, and document datasets, tables, listings, and figures related to the devices being studied
• Supports the regulatory review and provide data information for the experimental therapies
• Completes programming and implements efficiencies, performs testing and debugging
• Adapts machine learning to areas such as virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, robotics and other products that allow users to have an interactive experience.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Autonomy: Established and productive individual contributor. Works independently with general supervision on larger, moderately complex projects / assignments
• Organizational Impact: Sets objectives for own job area to meet the objectives of projects and assignments. Contributes to the completion of project milestones. May has some involvement in cross functional assignments
• Innovation and Complexity: Problems and issues faced are general and may require understanding of broader set of issues or other job areas but typically are not complex. Adjusts or recommends enhancements in systems and processes to solve problems or improve effectiveness of job area
• Communication and Influence: Communicates primarily and frequently with internal contacts. External interactions are less complex or problem-solving in nature. Contacts others to share information, status, needs and issues to inform, gain input, and support decision-making
• Leadership and Talent Management: May provide guidance and assistance to entry level professionals and / or employee in Support Career Stream
• Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires a Baccalaureate degree and minimum of 2 years of relevant experience OR Master's degree with a minimum of 0 years relevant experience.

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. 

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

Pay range / Rango salarial / Intervalo salarial /Fascia retributiva / Tranche de salaire / Gehaltsband / Salaribereik: Netherlands: 57,600.00 EUR - 86,400.00 EUR | This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people.
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here