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Director, Companion Diagnostics Strategy Lead

Employer
AbbVie
Location
South San Francisco, CA, United States
Start date
Sep 24, 2020

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Discipline
Marketing, Quality, Quality Control
Required Education
Doctorate/PHD/MD
Position Type
Full time
Hotbed
Biotech Bay, Best Places to Work

Job Details

About AbbVie
AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines 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, eye care, virology, women's health and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com . Follow @abbvie on Twitter , Facebook , Instagram , YouTube and LinkedIn .

AbbVie is currently offering a unique opportunity for a highly motivated individual to join our team as a Director, Companion Diagnostics within the Companion Diagnostics Center of Excellence (CDx COE), which supports CDx development across AbbVie. We are seeking a creative and highly motivated leader to develop and implement biomarker and diagnostic strategies to enable and support the development and commercialization of medically-differentiated therapies in oncology. The successful candidate will have the
opportunity to work in a highly collaborative environment and will participate as a member of multidisciplinary development project teams.
Responsibilities :
  • Develop and coordinate the overarching CDx strategy across projects in targeted therapeutic areas
  • Lead the development and implementation of diagnostic strategies for individual projects and/or therapeuticn areas
  • Direct the development, outsourcing and validation of clinically applicable companion diagnostic assays Design, implement and oversee biomarker and diagnostic testing and data analysis
  • Provide expertise to development project teams to ensure access to state of the art thinking on appropriate biomarker and diagnostic technologies, evaluating their scientific basis and clinical applicability, the
    validation status and any technical or statistical issues related to the proposed biomarkers and companion
    diagnostics

Qualifications
  • Highly experienced biomedical leader (PhD or MD/PhD) with a minimum of 10 years of post-doctoral and relevant industry experience with expertise in oncology biomarker and companion diagnostic development
  • Demonstrated excellence in developing and implementing overarching therapeutic area biomarker and/or CDx strategies
  • Demonstrated excellence in independently leading and conducting research and ability to evaluate, interpret and present complex scientific data
  • In depth experience with the discovery, characterization, clinical validation and utilization of innovative biomarkers and companion diagnostics.
  • Experience in human translational research with biomarker application in clinical trials and awareness of the challenges of implementing biomarker and diagnostic technologies in the clinical setting
  • Excellent leadership skills including motivation and delegation
  • Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills in English
  • High level of initiative and ability to work independently
  • High level of business awareness

Significant Work Activities
N/A
Travel
No
Job Type
Experienced
Schedule
Full-time
Job Level Code
D
Equal Employment Opportunity
At AbbVie, we value bringing together individuals from diverse backgrounds to develop new and innovative solutions for patients. As an equal opportunity employer we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Company

AbbVie’s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines 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, eye care, virology, women’s health and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.

Stock Symbol: ABBV

Stock Exchange: NYSE

Company info
Website
Phone
1-800-255-5162
Location
1 North Waukegan Road
North Chicago
Illinois
60064
US

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