Associate Clinical Specialist, Pain Interventions - Washington DC

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 10 Nov 2026   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 Across our global Neuroscience organization, we advance care for some of medicine’s most complex neurological and spinal conditions. By combining innovative technology, data-driven insights, and deep clinical expertise, we partner with physicians and health systems to improve how patients are treated and supported throughout their care journey.                     Our Neuromodulation Operating Unit provides advanced therapies for chronic pain, movement disorders, and other neurological conditions. Through spinal cord stimulation, deep brain stimulation, and targeted drug delivery systems, we deliver personalized treatments that restore function, reduce symptoms, and improve quality of life worldwide. Check us out on LinkedIn: Medtronic Brain Modulation and Pain Interventions The Associate Clinical Specialist serves as a clinical partner for Medtronic's Neuromodulation Pain and Targeted Drug Delivery portfolio, supporting physicians and patients across all phases of therapy. Responsibilities include surgical case coverage, device programming and troubleshooting, patient follow-up, and customer education. This role collaborates closely with healthcare providers and internal partners to deliver exceptional clinical support while contributing to territory and district objectives. This is a  field based  position in Washington DC and covering the surrounding area with 45% travel expected for this role.    Primary Responsibilities: • Represents Medtronic during surgical procedures by ensuring all necessary equipment and products required are available, providing technical support and device selection, and performing programming and testing of all device systems • Manages patients through all phases of the clinical process as well as educate them on the features and benefits of Medtronic products • Provides clinical support in surgeries, re-programmings, trouble-shooting and follow ups in hospitals and clinics • Responds promptly and appropriately to technical inquiries by customers, patients, and colleagues • Maintains a working knowledge of competitive products • Educates and trains physicians, hospital personnel and office staff on products and therapies. This is expected by, but not limited to, coordinating one on one teaching sessions, formal in-services, education programs, seminars and/or outside symposia (based off quarterly Plan of Action as directed by Leadership) • Assists Management and Sales Training department in education/training of new employees in the district • Complies with required event reporting and documentation utilizing Medtronic technology tools • Accountable for placing orders with customer service for pending purchase orders and product replacement • Expected to work with materials management to collect POs for cases covered within the territory/district • Responsible for managing inventory provided for case coverage, including:  timely transactions when product is used, sold or transferred, maintaining a required level of cycle count accuracy, executing product retrievals as instructed, turning over inventory in a reasonable time frame, not implanting expired product or product that is on hold • Contributes to the achievement of quart