Associate Scientific Director, Rheumatology, International 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.

Position can sit in Lake County, IL or remotely in the U.S. or Europe.

The global rheumatology team focuses on developing and executing strategies for our brand. We aim to continually evolve our portfolio approach with a unified mindset across our medical affairs team. This role is integral to our efforts in creating and implementing an integrated medical proposition that sets AbbVie apart, unifies our portfolio, and benefits all therapeutic areas and geographic regions. By supporting our rheumatology strategy, this position helps us accelerate transitions and maintain a portfolio mindset as we integrate new assets, diseases, and approaches. Our goal is to establish AbbVie as a leader in the field, capable of addressing diverse patient profiles, conditions, and disease manifestations.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to strategic initiatives involving integration across multiple projects within or spanning different sub-TAs or other medical affairs functions.
• Identify opportunities for synergies and propose initiatives that bridge the gaps between sub-TAs.
• Facilitate clear and seamless communication between pipeline, US, and international teams, identifying opportunities to streamline immunology-level processes.
• Conduct accurate and detailed medical reviews of complex advertising and promotional materials for assigned therapeutic areas within medical affairs. Ensure timely and precise reviews of promotional materials in alignment with established policies, practice standards, and regulatory guidelines to meet customer needs.

Research and Evidence:

• Lead research initiatives to tackle crucial data gaps.
• Develop strategic plans for evidence generation and communication to counter competitive threats from biosimilar and generic competition across rheumatology. Mobilize Business Units to employ science-based strategies in crafting defensive approaches.

Strategy Development:

• Contribute to the development of AbbVie's long-term global strategy, leveraging deep expertise in the therapeutic domain and a nuanced understanding of the medical/commercial interface.
• Assist in crafting business-focused strategies to support AbbVie in achieving its Long-Range Plan (LRP), actively engaging in advancing and disseminating enterprise and medical affairs immunology strategy.
• Play a role in identifying and prioritizing areas for AbbVie's continued leadership in the medical affairs domain. By pinpointing key opportunities for growth, capability enhancement, and innovation, contribute to shaping a 3-year strategic roadmap to ensure the medical affairs organization remains future-ready.

• Advanced degree MD, PhD, PharmD, PA, NP highly preferred.
• Minimal 3-5 years medical affairs experience in the pharmaceutical industry or academia or equivalent. · Ideally minimal 2 years experience as a medical science liaison.
• Knowledge and experience with design and execution of research using real world data. · Experience with clinical trial methodology, regulatory requirements governing clinical trials and experience in the design of protocols preferred.
• May possibly have performed protocol design in the academic environment or in the pharmaceutical industry and/or acted as an assistant PI or PI.
• Interactions normally require the ability to gain cooperation of others, conduct presentations of technical information concerning specific projects/schedules, etc.
• Ability to interact externally and internally to support global business strategy. Must possess excellent oral and written English communication skills.

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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