Head Global Migraine/Pain Pipeline, Medical Affairs (Senior Director/Executive Medical Director)

Company Description

About AbbVie

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 including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at  . Follow @abbvie on  LinkedIn, Facebook ,  Instagram ,  X and  YouTube.

Job Description

The Medical Affairs organization provides patients, healthcare providers, and payers everywhere with the practical and clinically relevant information and solutions they need to use AbbVie products safely and effectively, throughout the product lifecycle and the patient’s journey.

Purpose: Reporting to the Global Head of Neuroscience Pipeline, this role provides strategic medical and scientific leadership for core medical affairs activities in AbbVie’s Migraine / Pain Pipeline Portfolio. This includes healthcare provider engagement strategies, critical data generation, educational initiatives, and patient safety. Key to success is partnering closely with commercial teams to influence product strategies, support market access, and drive scientific communications. Offers medical insights and executes data generation, expert engagement, and communication initiatives across early and late-stage development. Leads gap assessments, develops scientific communication platforms and wholistic value narrative (including clinical, societal & humanistic), and guides integrated evidence plans to enable launch readiness.

This position can be based from our Florham Park, NJ or Mettawa, IL sites and will follow a hybrid schedule of 3 days/week onsite.

Responsibilities:

1. Lead, oversee, and support assigned indications and projects in collaboration with cross-functional teams (Medical, Clinical Development, Commercial, Market Access, HEOR).
2. Initiate and manage medical affairs activities, data generation, and dissemination to advance scientific and business objectives.
3. Provide scientific and technical support for assets, deliver presentations, maintain relationships with key opinion leaders, and contribute to cross-functional teams.
4. Guide development of Target Product Profiles (TPP), contribute to Phase II-III trial design, and lead Phase 3b/4 strategies in alignment with TPP.
5. Lead the planning and execution of advisory boards, scientific, and medical education programs for both internal and external stakeholders.
6. Stay current on scientific advancements and literature; act as a resource for Migraine and Pain therapeutic areas. Initiate and publish research projects.
7. Lead cross-functional teams on discrete projects such as data analysis, expert engagement, publications, and collaborations.
8. Represent Medical Affairs in due diligence activities for asset acquisitions aligned with disease area strategy.
9. Ensure scientific initiatives meet budget, timeline, and compliance requirements.
10. Manages a team of high performing colleagues.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree (MD/PhD/PharmD/DVM) required; post-doctoral experience preferred.
• Senior Director requirements: Advanced degree with minimum 10 years’ experience in clinical trials or medical affairs (pharmaceutical industry or academia); typically 15 years overall experience.
• Executive Medical Director requirements : M.D. with minimum 5 years of clinical trial experience. 7+ years preferred. 
• Strong leadership and cross-functional team management skills in a global environment.
• Expertise in a relevant therapeutic area with ability to provide scientific strategy and support.
• Proven ability to independently lead clinical studies or medical affairs teams.
• Knowledge of clinical trial methodology, regulatory requirements, and protocol design.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
• People management experience preferred.

Additional Information

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

• 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 thisposting 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 long-term incentive programs. ​

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 anduntil paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.​

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community.  Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. 

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