Assistant Scientific Director, Rheumatology- Medical Affairs

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.

Purpose

The Assistant Director, Medical Affairs has a key role within the designated Therapeutic Area. Working under the leadership of the Scientific Director/Medical Director, this leader supports the development and execution of the therapeutic area medical strategy, specifically as it pertains to the specific asset or indication by providing scientific, strategic and operational input into core medical affairs activities including thought leader engagement plans and field provider interactions; generation and dissemination of clinical and scientific data; provider and payer educational initiatives and promotional material generation, this leader ensures tactical execution is relevant to the market– physicians, patients and payors.

Responsibilities

• With oversight, contributes to the development of the therapeutic area strategy.
• Contributes to the development of and leads the execution of the medical education tactics, advisory boards, and thought leader engagement plan in line with the indication or asset’s strategic plan.
• Leads conference planning and execution. Represents AbbVie at external meetings including investigator meetings, scientific association meetings, etc.
• May be responsible for Medical Review (MR) training for on label, clinical data and disease state.
• Responsible for managing budget for assigned projects including consulting and vendor management.
• Supports clinical and scientific data generation including alignment of the Investigator Initiated Study (IIS) strategy as needed to support external communication
• Provides subject matter expertise for commercial teams including competitive assessments and regular scientific literature reviews.
• Aligns medical education and scientific initiatives with the Scientific Communication Platform.
• Contributes to the generation of Medical Information (MI) communication content and supports training on MI materials.
• Contributes to all launch readiness reviews/planning.

Education/Experience 

Candidate located central to Lake County, IL preferred. May be open to remote candidates.

• Scientific degree; advanced degree (e.g., MS, PhD, MD/DO, PharmD, NP, MSN) preferred.
• 3-5 years of clinical, scientific/research, or industry related experience or equivalent required demonstrating strong leadership competencies and proven team-building skills with ability to lead in a global matrixed environment. Substantial understanding of relevant therapeutic area required.
• Good understanding of legal and regulatory guidelines (e.g. knowledge of OPDP promotional regulations, CDER/CBER regulations as they relate to drug approvals).
• Good understanding of Good Clinical Practices, ICH guidelines, PhRMA code, FDA CFR, ISO, clinical research ethics, HIPAA and patient privacy laws, EU Directive and other applicable local regulations
• Good understanding of Medical Affairs principles, study design and publications.
• Knowledge of clinical trial methodology, regulatory requirements governing clinical trials and experience in the design of protocols preferred.
• Interactions normally 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 global business strategy. Ability to work effectively with different cross functional groups and have strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Able to coordinate 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.
• Ability to work effectively in a team/matrix environment. Ability to influence others without direct reporting relationships.

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 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. ​

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