Senior Medical Director, PST Lead-Neuroscience

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 .

Leading Product Safety Teams (PST) and support one or more products as the PST Lead under the direction of the Group Lead and TA Head in ensuring safety of one or more products through the product lifecycle (e.g. surveillance, signal detection, validation and assessment). Interpreting regulations related to pharmacovigilance supporting all patient safety activities.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding and application of the pharmacology, chemistry and non-clinical toxicology to effectively conduct safety surveillance
• Responsible for safety surveillance for pharmaceutical / biological / drug -device combined products
• Lead and set the strategy for key pharmacovigilance documents, including but not limited to, medical safety assessments, regulatory responses and risk management plans
• Apply current regulatory guidance as appropriate for safety surveillance and authorship of PV documents
• Analyze and interpret aggregate safety data and communicate these analysis and interpretation to cross-functional teams
• Effectively write, review and provide input on technical documents independently
• Oversight and responsibility for leading the strategy for periodic reports (PSUR's, PADER's etc.)
• Responsible for implementing risk management strategies for assigned product
• Proactively engaging, inspiring, coaching and mentoring team and colleagues

Qualifications

Basic:

• MD / DO with 2+ years of residency with patient management experience
• Master Public Health is preferred in addition to MD / DO, not required
• 5 - 8 years of Pharmacovigilance / Clinical Development experience in the pharmaceutical industry
• Effectively analyze and guide analysis of clinical data and epidemiological information
• Effectively present recommendations / opinions in group environment both internally and externally
• Write, review and provide input on technical documents
• Work collaboratively and lead cross-functional teams
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams in a collaborative environment
• Fluency, both written and oral, in English
• Evaluate and make independent decisions. Ability to work effectively in the situation of uncertainty and complexity, ability to multitask

Significant Work Activities
Continuous standing for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)
Travel
Yes, 10 % of the Time
Job Type
Experienced
Schedule
Full-time
Job Level Code
D
Equal Employment Opportunity
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