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Scientific Director / Senior Medical Director, Medical Affairs - Global Oncology Pipeline (Prostate Cancer)

Full-time

AbbVie Inc.


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.

The Scientific Director / Senior Medical Director, Medical Affairs - Global Oncology Pipeline provides medical and scientific input into core strategic and operational pipeline medical affairs activities for the prostate cancer portfolio such as: health-care professional and provider interactions; generation of clinical and scientific data (enhancing therapeutic benefit and value); educational initiatives (medical education, scientific communications, and value proposition) and safeguarding patient safety (risk minimization activities and safety surveillance activities). Works closely with sales, marketing, and commercial teams to provide strategic medical input into core brand (product) strategies, and to support medical affairs, marketing activities (promotional material generation and product launches) and market access.

This position can be based at our Mettawa, IL, Florham Park, NJ, or South San Francisco, CA locations and will follow a hybrid schedule of Tuesdays-Thursdays in office.

Responsibilities

  • Leads medical input into disease area strategy and asset strategies within the prostate cancer oncology pipeline portfolio.
  • Leads pipeline medical evidence generation strategy and execution including company sponsored studies, research collaborations and investigator initiated studies.
  • Provides in-house medical expertise for the disease area and assets, coordinating appropriate scientific activities with internal and external stakeholders as they relate to ongoing programs. May participate in due diligence or other business development activity as required by program needs, and contribute to translational strategy in partnership with discovery colleagues.
  • Acts as a medical interface and actively solicits insights and opinion through the development and execution of medical expert engagement strategies, partnering with clinical development, commercial, access, area and affiliate colleagues to ensure that broad perspectives both internally and externally are incorporated into strategies and plans as appropriate.
  • Leads creation of early scientific narratives, messaging, and communications activities including congress planning, medical education, publication strategies and plans.
  • May assist in the development of scientifically accurate marketing materials, medical education programs, advisories, and symposia. Assists with the scientific review, development, approval, execution, and communication of affiliate/area/global medical affairs sponsored or supported clinical research activities.
  • May interact with and coordinates appropriate scientific and medical activities with internal stakeholders (i.e., commercial, clinical operations, discovery, statistics, regulatory, etc…) as they relate to on-going medical affairs projects. Serves as the scientific team interface for key regulatory discussions.
  • Provide scientific/medical education to investigators, clinical monitors, and Global Project Team members related to therapeutic area or disease specific information. Keeps abreast of professional information and technology through conferences and/or medical literature and acts as a therapeutic area resource.
  • Ensures budgets, timelines, compliance requirements are factored into programs' scientific activities.

Qualifications

Position will be commensurate with experience.

Scientific Director Qualifications:

  • Advanced Degree PhD or PharmD. Additional post doctorate experience highly preferred.
  • Typically, 10-15 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry or equivalent
  • 7-10 years of experience in Medical Affairs with Global Medical Affairs experience highly preferred.
  • Substantial knowledge of relevant therapeutic area required. Direct experience and knowledge in prostate cancer strongly preferred.
  • Knowledge of clinical trial methodology, data analysis and interpretation, regulatory requirements governing clinical trials and experience in development strategy and the design of protocols.
  • Proven leadership skills in a cross-functional global team environment.
  • Must possess excellent oral and written English communication skills.

Senior Medical Director Qualifications:

  • Medical Doctorate (M.D.) degree or equivalent (D.O. or non-US equivalent of M.D). Relevant therapeutic specialty in an academic or hospital environment preferred. Completion of residency and/or fellowship is preferred.
  • Minimum of 2 years of clinical trial or medical affairs experience in the pharmaceutical industry or academia or equivalent. 3+ years of experience is preferred.
  • Substantial knowledge of relevant therapeutic area required. Direct experience and knowledge in prostate cancer strongly preferred.
  • Knowledge of clinical trial methodology, data analysis and interpretation, regulatory requirements governing clinical trials and experience in development strategy and the design of protocols.
  • Proven leadership skills in a cross-functional global team environment
  • Ability to interact externally and internally to support global business strategy.
  • Must possess excellent oral and written English communication skills.

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 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 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 and until 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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