Associate Scientific Director, Oncology Medical Affairs

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 .

Job Description

Job Title: Associate Director, Scientific Medical Affairs

Purpose:
Provides specialist medical and scientific strategic and operational input into core medical affairs activities such as: health-care professional and provider interactions (Payers, Patients, Prescribers, and Providers) and educational initiatives (medical education, data, guidelines, and value proposition). Works closely with sales, marketing and commercial teams to provide strategic medical input into core brand (product) strategies, and to support medical and marketing activities (promotional material generation and product launches) and market access.

Responsibilities:
• With oversight, contributes to the development of brand strategies.
• 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.
• Directs a therapeutically/histology aligned team of medical professionals driving the strategic and tactical plan. Manages and develops individual and team performance while ensuring the team complies with regulatory and corporate requirements by guiding staff decision making.
• Generates clinical and scientific data (DOF) as needed to support external communication (RRTI).
• Aligns Medical education and scientific initiatives with Sci Comm Platform.
• Contributes to the development of and leads the execution of the Medical Education / Congress / and EE Engagement Plan generation in line with TA plan. May lead individual (US Conference planning and execution.
• Contributes to the generation of MI communication content and supports training on Medical Information (MI) materials.
• Responsible to manage budget for assigned projects.
• May support teams with subject matter expertise.
• May contribute to the development of a TA EE Engagement Plan.

Qualifications

Qualifications:
• Advanced Degree PhD, PharmD, PA, NP highly preferred. Residency or additional post doctorate experience highly preferred.
• Typically 8 years' experience in the pharmaceutical industry or equivalent; substantial understanding of relevant therapeutic area required.
• 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.
• 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.
• Works with some supervision and guidance. Exercises judgment within well-defined practices and policies.

Significant Work Activities
Continuous sitting 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
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.