Robotic Startup Specialist

Medtronic; Remote; GBP 41,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading medical technology company is seeking a Start-up Specialist for their HUGO™ Robotic Assisted Surgery program in the United Kingdom. The role involves integrating advanced surgical technologies into hospitals, combining responsibilities such as coordinating training for surgeons and staff, managing program goals, and ensuring successful adoption of robotic systems. Candidates should have a Bachelor’s Degree, be fluent in English, and possess over 2 years of experience in surgical procedures. The position requires significant travel across the UK and Ireland and offers a competitive salary with a comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

Competitive Salary

Flexible Benefits Package

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree at a minimum.
• Fluent in English; other languages are a plus.
• Willingness to travel throughout the UK & Ireland (>75%).
• Demonstrable experience over 2 years in surgical procedures.

Responsibilities

• Integrate HUGO™ RAS-system into hospitals.
• Meet with program stakeholders to develop program goals.
• Create surgeon training plans and coordinate attendance.
• Support technology adoption during surgeon learning sessions.
• Coach hospitals’ staff to achieve operational excellence.

Skills

Fluent in English

Knowledge of operating rooms

Change management techniques

Ability to coach staff

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Biomedical Engineering or Nursing

Job description

Overview

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

The surgical robotics utilization team manages all aspects of system installation, start-up, customer training, account analysis, drive and optimize the robotic program. Placement of a HUGO surgical robot in the hospital requires full-time support for an account specific period to ensure successful integration into the hospital’s service lines. The utilization team members are seasoned professionals with in-depth knowledge of the healthcare value chain as well as a broad experience across multiple disciplines. They partner with all relevant hospital stakeholders to drive complex transformational changes, implement innovative growth strategies, streamline patient-focused care pathways and optimize operations. The individual for this role would be based in London, Southeast England or Kent.

Medtronic (NYSE: MDT), the largest and most successful medical technology company in the world is entering the market of Robotic Assisted Surgery (RAS). We are seeking talented individuals that are eager to use all their skills and competencies to quickly deploy our ground-breaking robotic assisted surgical therapies to patients, surgeons and hospitals in several countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

Responsibilities

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

• As a start-up specialist you will be responsible for the successful integration of our HUGO™ RAS-system into a hospital. This might be an expansion of a current robotic surgery program, the creation of a new robotic surgery program or a shift from another platform to our HUGO™ RAS-system.
• The main activities of a start-up specialist include:
• Meet with the robotic program stakeholders and develop program goals and metrics for HUGO™ RAS-system. Conduct regular program review meetings to remain on-track
• Develop a surgeon training plan, coordinate attendance at Medtronic’s off-site training and arrange for proctored cases post-training as needed
• Develop a training plan to support staff to include attendance at a Medtronic off-site training class and support staff through their learning curve
• Support the technology adoption by attending to cases during a surgeon and staff member’s learning sessions
• Utilize change management techniques to engage clinical stakeholders and attain buy-in
• Coach hospitals’ staff to promote skill transfer and achieve self-sufficiency in operational excellence
• Cooperate with Medtronic field service engineer (FSE) and the hospital staff to prepare the operating room to host the HUGO™ RAS-system.

Required Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree at a minimum (Biomedical Engineering, Nursing, etc.).
• Fluent in English. The ability to speak more languages is a plus.
• Willingness to travel throughout the region (UK & Ireland) (>75%).
• Demonstrable experience over 2 years, including relevant knowledge and experience of operating rooms and surgical procedures.

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: United Kingdom: 41,200.00 GBP- 61,800.00 GBP | 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