Description
About the job
The Senior Clinical Evaluation Specialist applies scientific, regulatory and project management skills to establish the evaluation strategy and compile a body of clinical evidence, in order to reach a legally binding scientific conclusion on the safety and performance of medical devices throughout the product lifecycle. The Clinical Evaluation Specialist bears the operational responsibility of individual clinical evaluation reports and associated documents.
What You Will Do
- Support a coherent clinical evidence strategy throughout the new product development cycle, and foster alignment with adjacent complex processes (marketing strategy and claims, regulatory strategy, clinical research strategy, testing strategy).
- Support compliant and sustainable literature search strategies, and perform complex literature queries to retrieve published clinical data,
- Identify, appraise, and analyze all relevant data (clinical, PMS, marketing, testing, etc.) from multiple sources and formats and create a comprehensive scientific review.
- Analyze the current medical and scientific trends in the clinical state of the art on a broad variety of specialized indications and techniques.
- Identify unanswered questions and residual risks in the clinical evaluation report, and assist with design of Post Market Clinical Follow Up (PMCF) activities in collaboration with clinical affairs colleagues and/or other subject matter experts to address these questions.
- Define and develop clinical evaluation and analysis methodologies to adapt to a complex and quickly evolving regulatory and scientific framework.
What You Need
- Bachelors/Master of Science degree in a health/science-related field.
- Minimum of 2 years industry experience in clinical, quality or regulatory affairs (risk management, design quality, post-market safety, etc.).
- Experience in writing clinical evaluations for medical devices required.
- Strong communication, project management and influencing skills. Must demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate up/down and across different levels of the organization.
Preferred
- Doctorate degree in health/science-related field.
- Experience in scientific or medical writing, relevant academic or clinical research experience (PhD, Post-doc).
Posted Date: 06/04/2026 This role will be posted for a minimum of 3 days.
United States of America Pay Ranges:
- USN: $83,300 - $138,800 USD Annual
- US5: $87,500 - $145,700 USD Annual
- US10: $91,600 - $152,700 USD Annual
- US15: $95,800 - $159,600 USD Annual
- US20: $100,000 - $166,600 USD Annual
- US30: $108,300 - $180,400 USD Annual
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Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.