Scientific Director / Medical Director, Medical Affairs – Oncology

AbbVie•Mettawa, IL

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Medical Affairs (MA) organization provides patients, healthcare providers and payers everywhere with the practical and clinically relevant information and solutions they need to use AbbVie products safely and effectively, throughout the product lifecycle and the patient’s journey. The Scientific Director / Medical Director provides medical and scientific input into strategic and operational medical affairs activities for AbbVie’s Oncology portfolio such as: health-care professional and provider interactions (Payers, Patients, Prescribers, and Providers); generation of clinical and scientific data (enhancing therapeutic benefit and value); educational initiatives (medical education, data, guidelines, and value proposition); safeguarding patient safety (risk minimization activities and safety surveillance activities). Works closely with commercial teams to provide strategic medical input into core brand (product) strategies, and may support medical and marketing activities (promotional material generation and product launches) and market access. Collaborates with clinical development on Medical Affairs support of priority trials. This position can be based at the following locations and will follow a hybrid model of 3 days/week onsite: Mettawa, IL; Florham Park, NJ; Irvine, CA; San Francisco, CA.

Requirements

Scientific Director: Bachelor’s Degree in the sciences.
Advanced Degree PhD, PharmD, PA or NP preferred.
Residency or additional post doctorate experience preferred.
5-7+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry or equivalent; substantial understanding of relevant therapeutic area required.
Medical Director: Medical Doctorate (M.D.) degree or equivalent (D.O. or non-US equivalent of M.D.).
Relevant therapeutic specialty in an academic or hospital environment preferred.
Completion of residency and/or fellowship preferred.
0-2+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry or equivalent.
Knowledge of clinical trial methodology, regulatory requirements governing clinical trials and experience in the design of protocols preferred.
May have performed protocol design in the academic environment and/or acted as an assistant PI.
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.
Must possess excellent oral and written communication skills.
Works with some supervision and guidance.
Exercises judgment within well-defined practices and policies.

Responsibilities

With oversight, initiates medical affairs activities, generation and dissemination of data supporting the therapeutic area scientific strategy
Provides scientific/medical education to all relevant internal stakeholders related to therapeutic area or disease specific information.
Develops and executes Medical Affairs support of priority clinical development trials.
Contributes to the development of and leads the execution of the Medical Education / Advisory Board & EE Engagement Plan generation in line with TA plan.
Lead the individual (Global) Conference planning and execution.
Generates clinical and scientific data per evidence gap assessment.
Acts as a clinical interface and actively solicits opinion through leader interactions related to the molecule and disease area; partners with Medical Affairs, Commercial and other functions in these activities as required, consistent with corporate policies, to ensure that broad cross-functional perspectives are incorporated into Clinical Development Plans and protocols as appropriate.
May be responsible for performing the accurate and detailed medical review of complex advertising and promotional materials for assigned therapeutic area(s) within Medical Affairs.
Provides timely and accurate reviews of promotional materials in accordance with established policies and practice standards, including regulatory guidelines to meet customer needs.
May interact with and coordinates 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.
May assist as consultant and liaison with other corporations when working under licensing agreements and/or in the evaluation of new business development opportunities.
Represents AbbVie at external meetings including investigator meetings, scientific association meetings, etc.
Ensures budgets, timelines, compliance requirements are factored into programs' scientific activities.