Scientific Director, Medical Affairs - Parkinson's Disease

AbbVie•Mettawa, IL

10h•$160,500 - $305,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Scientific Director provides medical and scientific input into strategic and operational Medical Affairs activities for AbbVie’s Neuroscience portfolio, including healthcare professional and provider interactions with payers, patients, prescribers, and providers; generation of clinical and scientific data; educational initiatives; and patient-safety activities such as risk minimization and safety surveillance. The role works closely with commercial teams to inform core brand strategies and support medical and marketing activities, product launches, and market access. It executes core medical-affairs tactics in support of launch and collaborates with Clinical Development on Medical Affairs support for priority trials. The position leads and supports Medical Affairs strategy and tactics for a Parkinson’s Disease asset launch, including medical education, advisory board and external-expert engagement, global conference planning, internal training, evidence generation, and assigned project budgets. It also contributes to therapeutic-area engagement planning and Medical Information content and training, reviews complex advertising and promotional materials, and may provide subject-matter expertise to cross-functional teams or act as a consultant and liaison in licensing or business-development evaluations. This is a hybrid role based preferably in Lake County, Illinois.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in the sciences.
At least 5–7 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry or equivalent.
Substantial understanding of the relevant therapeutic area.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Ability to gain cooperation from others and present technical information about projects and schedules.
Ability to interact internally and externally in support of global business strategy.
Ability to coordinate scientific and medical activities with internal stakeholders, including commercial, clinical operations, discovery, statistics, and regulatory teams.
Ability to work with some supervision and guidance and exercise judgment within well-defined practices and policies.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree such as PhD, PharmD, PA, or NP.
Residency or additional postdoctoral experience.
Knowledge of clinical-trial methodology and regulatory requirements governing clinical trials.
Experience designing clinical-trial protocols.

Responsibilities

Contribute to the development of brand strategies.
Lead and support Medical Affairs initiatives, including strategy and tactics, for the Parkinson’s Disease asset launch.
Contribute to the development and lead execution of the Medical Education, Advisory Board, and external-expert engagement plan in line with the therapeutic-area plan.
Lead individual global conference planning and execution.
Lead the development and execution of internal training activities.
Generate clinical and scientific data based on evidence-gap assessment.
Manage budgets for assigned projects.
Support cross-functional teams with subject-matter expertise as needed.
Actively contribute to development of a therapeutic-area external-expert engagement plan.
Contribute to generating Medical Information communication content and support training on Medical Information materials.
Perform accurate and detailed medical review of complex advertising and promotional materials for assigned therapeutic areas, following established policies, practice standards, and regulatory guidelines.
Provide timely and accurate promotional-material reviews to meet customer needs.
As needed, serve as a consultant and liaison with other corporations in connection with licensing agreements or evaluation of business-development opportunities.
Work with commercial teams on medical input to brand strategies and support medical, marketing, product-launch, and market-access activities.
Collaborate with Clinical Development on Medical Affairs support for priority trials.