Scientific Director, Medical Affairs - Parkinson's Disease

AbbVie • Mettawa, IL

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Scientific Director provides medical and scientific input into strategic and operational Medical Affairs activities for AbbVie’s Neuroscience portfolio, with a focus on Parkinson’s disease. The role supports interactions with healthcare professionals, payers, patients, prescribers, and providers; generation of clinical and scientific data; educational initiatives; and patient-safety activities, including risk minimization and safety surveillance.

The position works closely with commercial teams to contribute medical input to core brand strategies and support Medical Affairs and marketing activities, including promotional material development, product launches, and market access. It executes core Medical Affairs tactics for launch and collaborates with Clinical Development on Medical Affairs support for priority trials. The role also leads or supports medical education, advisory board and external-expert engagement, conference planning, internal training, evidence generation, and medical review of promotional materials. The position is hybrid and based in Lake County, Illinois, preferably.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in the sciences required.
• 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 interact internally and externally to support global business strategy.
• Ability to coordinate scientific and medical activities with internal stakeholders, including Commercial, Clinical Operations, Discovery, Statistics, and Regulatory.
• Ability to gain cooperation from others and present technical information about projects and schedules.
• Works with some supervision and guidance and exercises judgment within well-defined practices and policies.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree such as PhD, PharmD, PA, or NP preferred.
• Residency or additional postdoctoral experience preferred.
• Knowledge of clinical trial methodology and regulatory requirements governing clinical trials preferred.
• Experience in clinical trial protocol design preferred.

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 development of and lead execution of the Medical Education, Advisory Board, and external-expert engagement plan in line with the therapeutic area plan.
• Lead planning and execution for individual global conferences.
• Lead development and execution of internal training activities.
• Generate clinical and scientific data based on evidence-gap assessments.
• 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 within Medical Affairs.
• Provide timely and accurate promotional-material reviews in accordance with established policies, practice standards, and regulatory guidelines.
• Collaborate with Clinical Development on Medical Affairs support for priority trials.
• Support medical and marketing activities, including promotional material generation, product launches, and market access.
• May serve as a consultant and liaison with other corporations on licensing agreements or evaluation of new business development opportunities.

Benefits

• Paid time off, including vacation, holidays, and sick time.
• Medical insurance.
• Dental insurance.
• Vision insurance.
• 401(k).
• Eligibility to participate in long-term incentive programs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director