Clinical Research Associate - Remote, US based

Job Overview

The Clinical Research Associate leads real-world research, market insights, and scientific communication initiatives supporting Healthmark’s commercial and clinical strategy. This role designs and executes real-world studies on Healthmark products, analyzes data, monitors FDA safety alerts and outbreak reports, develops scientific publications, and supports presentations and educational content. The position blends research, evidence generation, and science communication to provide data-driven insights that shape product strategy, customer education, and marketplace understanding.

Job Responsibilities and Essential Duties:

• Design, plan, and conduct real-world studies evaluating Healthmark and Getinge products and other medical devices.

• Coordinate market research initiatives to identify customer needs, device performance trends, and marketplace gaps.

• Lead data collection, data analysis, and ensure adherence to study protocols.

• Perform routine surveillance of peer-reviewed literature, FDA MAUDE reports, outbreak summaries, and regulatory inspection findings.

• Synthesize findings into actionable reports, briefs, and recommendations for leadership and product teams.

• Write or co-author manuscripts, literature reviews, technical papers, white papers, and industry articles.

• Collaborate with the technical writer to prepare publications and educational content.

• Support conference presentations, webinars, and professional education materials with scientific research.

• Develop internal evidence briefs summarizing research trends and key literature updates.

• Partner with Marketing, Sales, Product Management, and R&D on evidence generation and product support.

• Represent Healthmark at scientific conferences and professional society meetings.

• Management of Key Opinion Leader (KOL) relationships.

• Work with R&D and Regulatory to conduct existing product research for regulatory submissions.

• Contribute to the creation of training materials, slide decks, and educational programs.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent data interpretation and scientific writing abilities.

• Strong project-management and organizational skills.

• Ability to translate complex scientific findings into clear, accessible communication.

• Proficiency with literature review tools, MAUDE database searches, and data analysis software.

• Strong presentation and public speaking skills.

• Ability to work independently and remotely.

Minimum Requirements: 

• Master’s degree in Public Health (MPH), Epidemiology, or related scientific discipline.

• 3–5 years of experience conducting real-world or post-market studies in healthcare or medical device settings.

• Experience with protocol development, data collection, analysis, and manuscript writing.

• Experience with peer-reviewed publication processes.

• Strong scientific communication skills, including writing and presenting.

• Experience in infection prevention, sterile processing, or medical device reprocessing strongly preferred.

• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally across clinical, marketing, regulatory, and product teams.

Environmental/Safety/Physical Work Conditions: 

• 10% travel required.
• Sit when needed to do job.
• Stand for long periods of time.
• Wear PPE when required for the job.
• Be able to lift to 25 lbs.

The physical demands described here are a representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The salary range for this job is a minimum of $80,000 to a maximum of $110,000 annually, plus 4% bonus potential.