Associate Clinical Research Monitor

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

A Day in the Life

Medtronic Clinical Research Solutions (MCRS) combines clinical research and evidence generation teams. MCRS provides centralized clinical trial support services that help study execution while maintaining quality and compliance. MCRS enables our vision of being the leading scientific organization delivering innovative clinical research.

MCRS Monitoring team serves as the face of Medtronic to the investigational site to ensure patient safety, site compliance, and data integrity.
Clinical Research Monitor/Associate is responsible for overseeing clinical research activities at investigational sites and conducting monitoring visits, both onsite and remotely, to ensure studies are conducted in compliance with study protocols, GCP, regulatory requirements, and Ethics Committee/IRB policies. The role serves as a key point of contact for study sites, collaborating with study teams and site personnel to resolve issues, review adverse events, identify protocol deviations, and maintain accurate study documentation and reports. The role also supports site training, Ethics Committee submissions, and study operations such as CTA, invoice, and payment processes to help drive successful clinical trial execution.

This is an entry-level individual contributor role focused on delivering assigned projects under close supervision, with strong attention to compliance and operational detail.

Primary Responsibilities

• Responsible for the oversight of clinical research conducted at investigational sites and monitors progress of clinical trials to ensure compliance with study protocols, applicable regulatory standards, Ethics committee/Institutional Review Board (IRB/EC) policies as well as procedures and business policies.
• This position works under supervision as needed, working closely with study management teams, Medtronic field personnel and site personnel for resolution of site issues towards successful clinical studies execution.
• Performing monitoring activities of clinical trials at the site or remotely and ensuring all is conducted, recorded and reported in accordance with the Investigational Plan, Monitoring Plan, standard operating procedures (SOP), good clinical practices (GCP), and other applicable regulatory requirements.
• Communicate visit findings with site personnel and complete a written letter for distribution to the Principal Investigator and appropriate site personnel to follow-up.
• Prepare site visit reports and correspondence for all visits conducted in accordance with the study Monitoring Plan and within timelines for visit deliverables.
• Identifies and escalates protocol deviations, discrepancies in data, and non-compliance to study protocols, applicable regulations, Good Clinical Practices and Standard Operating Procedures 
• Collaborates with monitoring management and study team personnel towards securing Investigator compliance 
• Identifies site needs and provides solutions to facilitate the clinical trial process.
• Act as main point of contact for study sites as requested.
• Responsible for reviewing adverse event cases with investigators, preparing study documents, and issuing status reports.
• Understands the study protocol and accompanying background information (e.g., Investigator Brochure, Report of Prior Investigations etc.).
• Performs initial and ongoing site personnel training as required.
• Attend internal department and (study) team meeting as requested 
• Adhere to all applicable Medtronic policies and procedures 
• Supports Clinical Trial Agreement (CTA) process, invoice and payment requests.
• Responsible for planning, preparation, and execution of the study submission to Ethics Committees (EC/CA) for initial and subsequent submissions.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in life sciences, nursing or other health related disciplines 
• Fluent in local language (Dutch) and English
• Ability to travel (25-75%) and drive License
• Clear and effective communication verbally and in writing combined with good interpersonal skills and comfortable with working with others 
• Proactivity, ability to work in a fast-paced and changing environment and ability to work in a matrix environment.
• Competencies and essential skills in the following: cross functional relationships, decision making, execution/results/process improvement, customer satisfaction 
• Ability to maintain composure in difficult circumstances and to identify and adapt to shifting priorities and competing demands with high attention to detail and accuracy, good problem-solving skills 
• Work with Word, PowerPoint, Excel spreadsheets and databases applications 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Clinical Research Monitoring.
• Understanding of any applicable regulations and standards (e.g., Training on Good Clinical Practices, ICH guidelines, FDA CFR, ISO, clinical research ethics, EU Directive, etc.) 
• Business knowledge or experience with the medical/healthcare industry, knowledge of medical terminology.
• Experience in planning/ preparing/ execution of study submission to EC/CA.

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. 

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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: 45,600.00 EUR - 68,400.00 EUR |

The final salary within this range will be determined based on objective, job-related criteria, including relevant experience, skills and qualifications, in accordance with our compensation framework.

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This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

Who We Are

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.

What We Do

We change lives. Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.

We build extraordinary solutions as one team. With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.

This life-changing career is yours to engineer. By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will…

• Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world

• Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities

• Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning

How We Are Different

These commitments set our team apart from the rest:

Experiences that put people first. Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.

Life-transforming technologies. No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.

Better outcomes for our world. Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.

Insight-driven care. Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care

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