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Scientific Director, Precision Medicine Immunology

Employer
AbbVie
Location
Redwood City, CA, United States
Start date
Feb 26, 2021

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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 .

Scientific Director, PMed Immunology

The Precision Medicine Immunology group is hiring an experienced precision medicine / translational scientist with expertise in immunology and/or fibrosis who will be responsible for the oversight, development, planning, execution, and interpretation of translational medicine activities in support of the immunology clinical development portfolio at AbbVie.

Major Responsibilities:

The candidate will:
  • Lead the development and implementation of precision medicine and biomarker strategic plans for one or more clinical programs. Responsibility may extend from early translational development activities to mature product life cycle strategies and back translational activities.
  • Oversee and manage the design, conduct, interpretation, and reporting of biomarker data/activities in line with the development, regulatory, and commercial strategies.
  • Ensure, in collaboration with project leaders and asset-specific translational team members, that clinical translational sciences budgets, timelines, publication strategies and regulatory compliance requirements are factored into programs' scientific activities.
  • Lead asset-specific precision medicine projects/teams in a matrix environment.
  • Oversee and coordinate operational aspects such as sample management, technical validation of assays both internally and at external CROs, review of SOWs, and data management.
  • In collaboration with appropriate stakeholders ensure that clinical translational budgets, timelines, publication strategies, and regulatory compliance requirements are incorporated into program strategy.
  • Author and review all translational medicine aspects of clinical and regulatory documents including development plans, study protocols, clinical study reports, and regulatory submissions.
  • Lead scientific collaborations and therapeutic area key opinion leader interactions in collaboration with partners from Medical Affairs, Commercial, or other functions.
  • Proactively consult primary scientific literature, keep current on state of art technologies and emerging concepts in immunology.

Qualifications

  • PhD, PharmD and/or MD with 10+ years or MS with 15+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry or equivalent; substantial understanding of precision medicine / translational science required. Will hire at level according to experience.
  • Strong scientific background in immunology or related field supported by publication record in these areas.
  • Demonstrated leadership in precision and/or translational sciences (employing pharmacodynamic, predictive and exploratory biomarkers) and experience with relevant assay and sampling technologies.
  • Expertise in dermatology, rheumatology, and/or gastroenterology highly desirable.
  • Familiarity with data management and visualization tools and collaborating with computational biology to analyze complex data sets emerging from clinical trials.
  • Knowledge of clinical trial methodology, regulatory requirements governing clinical trials, companion diagnostics, protocol design, and/or experience in development strategy preferred.
  • Experience in managing direct report desirable.
  • Ability to manage clinical translational programs and teams with moderate supervision.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills, ability to present results in a clear and concise manner, strong organizational skills with attention to detail, and effective time management with an ability to adapt to changing priorities.
  • Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills to work in a team-oriented, matrix environment, and the ability to work through conflicts

Significant Work Activities
Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)
Travel
Yes, 15 % 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.

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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