Director, Companion Diagnostics Strategy Lead

About AbbVie
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Director, Companion Diagnostics Strategy Lead

Description:

AbbVie is offering a unique opportunity for a highly motivated individual to join our team as a Director, Companion Diagnostics Strategy Lead within the Precision Medicine Companion Diagnostics team, which supports CDx development across therapeutic areas (oncology/immunology/neuroscience). We are seeking a creative and highly motivated leader to develop and implement diagnostic strategies to enable and support the development and commercialization of medically differentiated therapies. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work in a highly collaborative environment and will be a key member of multidisciplinary development project teams.

Essential Duties and Job Functions:

• Develop and coordinate the overarching global CDx strategy across projects in targeted therapeutic areas
• Lead the development and implementation of diagnostic strategies for individual projects and/or therapeutic 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 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

Desired Skills and Experience:

• 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/immunology/neuroscience 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 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
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.