Associate Director, Medical Affairs

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 X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

The Associate Director provides medical and scientific strategic and operational input into core Medical Affairs activities such as health care professional interactions, generation of clinical and scientific data (enhancing therapeutic benefit and value), and educational initiatives. Works closely with teams across Medical Affairs (e.g. Publications and Scientific Communications) and other functions (e.g. Commercial) to provide strategic input and subject matter expertise. Executes core Medical Affair tactics to support assigned on-market products as well as launch of new indications and assets.

Responsibilities

• With oversight, contributes to the development of brand strategies for the assigned on-market and launch products.
• Leads and supports Medical Affairs initiatives and executes on tactics for the assigned products and projects.
• Serves as subject matter expert to internal stakeholders such as Field Medical and Commercial.
• Assists in the identification, design, and implementation of focused and impactful internal training programs, aiming to shape scientific understanding of relevant topics such as etiology, mechanism of action, and clinical trial data.
• Provides scientific and strategic input for external scientific communications and externally facing materials representative of the current patient needs and aligned with therapeutic area strategies (e.g. congress booth material, HCP-facing scientific content, publications).
• Identifies insight trends and data/knowledge gaps through gathering feedback from multiple sources (e.g. Field Medical, planning and execution of advisory boards), compile and summarize to provide relevant insights, and communicates to the broader therapeutic team.
• May interact with and coordinate appropriate scientific and medical activities with internal stakeholders (e.g. Commercial, R&D, Regulatory) as they relate to on-going Medical Affairs projects.
• Contributes to the development of and leads the execution of the medical education (e.g. scientific symposiums) and external expert engagement plans in line with the therapeutic area and Medical Affairs plans.
• Maintains up to date, deep knowledge of current scientific/clinical data, guidelines, and standards of practice related to the therapeutic area.
• Responsible for the management of budget for the assigned projects.
  
  

Qualifications

• Advanced degree (e.g. PhD, PharmD, MD) in a scientific field.
• 3-5 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry or equivalent; substantial understanding of Medical Affairs function is required.
• Experience in Medical Aesthetics is preferred.
• Knowledge of clinical trial methodology, regulatory requirements governing clinical trials, and experience in the design of protocols preferred.
• Ability to effectively build relationships and interact externally and internally to support business strategies.
• Demonstrated analytical, conceptual, and administrative skills.
• Must possess excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills. Ability to effectively manage multiple priorities and to demonstrate good business judgement.
• Flexibility and adaptability to market demands and organizational change. Ability to work in a fast-paced corporate environment. High sense of urgency and commitment to excellent in successful achievement of business objectives.
• Ability to work in a matrix environment and to influence without direct authority to effectively deliver cross-functional projects.
• Works with some supervision and guidance. Exercises judgment within well-defined practices and policies.
  
  

Additional Information

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and 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.

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