Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Job Description

Primary Job Function:

• Provides specialist medical and scientific strategic and operational input into core medical affairs activities such as: health-care professional and provider interactions (patients, prescribers and providers); generation of clinical and scientific data (enhancing therapeutic benefit and value); educational initiatives (medical education, data, guidelines, and value proposition); safeguarding patient safety (risk minimization activities and safety surveillance activities).

• Works closely with marketing and commercial teams to provide strategic medical input into core brand (product) strategies, and to support medical and marketing activities (promotional material generation and product launches) and market access.

• The successful candidate will work on company supported research activities e.g. investigator initiated studies, clinical development program, and will bring science to life through content creation for internal education and external medical interactions.

• Depending on the level of experience that individual candidates bring to this role, the position may be allocated as an senior scientific/medical director or scientific/medical director. Experience in the field of hemato-oncology is strongly preferred.

• This position will involve people management and the ideal candidate will bring experience of this in a matrix organization.

Responsibilities:

• Contributes to the development of brand strategy and functional plan.

• Leads to the development of and coordinates the execution of the medical education/advisory board & external expert engagement plan in line with the therapeutic area plan. Lead the individual (US and/or global) conference planning and execution.

• Generates clinical and scientific data as needed to support external communication.

• Responsible for ensuring the accurate and detailed medical review of complex advertising and promotional materials for assigned therapeutic area(s) within Medical Affairs. Provides timely and accurate reviews of promotional materials in accordance with established policies and practice standards, including regulatory guidelines to meet customer needs.

• Responsible to manage budget for assigned projects within the relevant therapeutic area.

• Support cross-functional teams with CLL subject matter expertise.

• Aligns medical education and scientific initiatives with the scientific communications platform.

• Develops and refines Investigator Initiated Study (IIS) strategy and can act as appraiser and discussant for IIS proposals and protocols.

• Contributes to the generation of medical information (MI) communication content and supports training on MI materials.

• Participation in design and execution of clinical trial safety, product safety and risk management plans.

• Mentors and leads a team of medical affairs professionals

Qualifications

• Relevant scientific, medical or pharmacy background with postgraduate qualification (master’s level or above)

• Typically 10 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry or equivalent (significant clinical expertise and experience will be considered); understanding of relevant therapeutic area required. Experience in the field of oncology is required.

• Must possess excellent oral and written communication skills.

• Can demonstrate excellence in HCP interactions: individually, as well as at institutional/organizational level. This can be at affiliate, or area level.

• Evidence of interactions that require the ability to gain cooperation of others, conduct presentations of technical information concerning specific projects and schedules, etc.

• Ability to interact externally and internally to support medical strategy.

• Ability to coordinate appropriate scientific and medical activities with internal stakeholders (e.g., commercial, clinical operations, market access, regulatory) as they relate to on-going medical affairs projects.

• Experience of leading successful teams in pharmaceutical medicine.

• Experience of representing current/previous employer at external meetings including investigator meetings, scientific association meetings, etc.

• Demonstrates understanding of the regulatory landscape with respect to innovative oncology medicines and has experience of representing medical affairs in internal and/or external market/patient access interactions.

Desired:

• Advanced Degree PhD, PharmD, PA, NP preferred.

• Residency, other clinical professional experience, or additional post doctorate experience preferred.

• Good understanding of the evolving priorities of medical affairs, in terms of compelling content, multichannel communication, deployment of digital medical affairs tactics and the importance of legal, regulatory and compliance aspects of project management for these initiatives.

• Deep subject matter expertise of chronic lymphocytic leukemia, with proven track record in execution of medical affairs tactics.

• Can demonstrate commitment to personal development of self and others.

• Experience of critical appraisal of research proposals e.g., IIS and of alignment to therapeutic area strategy.

• Experience of acting as liaison with other corporations/alliance partners when working under licensing agreements and/or in the evaluation of new business development opportunities.

• Demonstrable successful career progression to date.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

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• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs. ​

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Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. ​

AbbVie is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.