Clinical Site Lead

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries. JOB DESCRIPTION: Working at Abbott - At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. - You’ll also have access to: - Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of. - Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year. - An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution - Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree. - A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune. - A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists. The Opportunity We are recruiting for a Clinical Site Lead to join our field team for the Atlanta, GA and surrounding territory. The Clinical Site Lead drives study execution and operational excellence across Abbott Cardiovascular therapies (Vascular, Cardiac Rhythm Management, EP, Structural Heart, and Heart Failure). This new team member is a recognized resource in protocol execution, increasing product and disease state knowledge, procedure support (as needed), procedure outcomes and early indication of trends, clinical trial enrollment, and ICH-GCP and clinical research application. Additionally, adheres to specified site nomination, qualification, and startup processes. In this role you will lead ongoing training/retraining of all site stakeholders to ensure protocol adherence as well as continuously review, manage, and influence all aspects of site’s recruitment and data collection performance (enrollment, discrepancy resolution, compliance, etc.). The individual proactively utilizes appropriate operational metrics to minimize screen failure, attrition rate, etc. and monitors to ensure compliance with applicable regulatory requirements, Good Clinical Practice, and accuracy standards inclusive of site initiation, periodic, and close-out visits. They may also be consulted in the following areas: study design, site payments, site audits, local document review, study documents preparation, and submission to site or competent authority/ethics committee. What You’ll Work On With limited direction from leadership: 1. Develop and maintain a productive clinical territory: Identify, develop, and maintain sites capable of delivering start-up goals, study participation