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Director, Medical Science Liaison Body Contouring

Employer
AbbVie
Location
Irvine, California
Start date
Jan 21, 2022

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Discipline
Clinical, Medical Affairs
Required Education
Bachelors Degree
Position Type
Full time
Hotbed
Biotech Beach, Best Places to Work

Job Details

About Allergan Aesthetics
At Allergan Aesthetics, an AbbVie company, we develop, manufacture, and market a portfolio of leading aesthetics brands and products. Our aesthetics portfolio includes facial injectables, body contouring, plastics, skin care, and more. Our goal is to consistently provide our customers with innovation, education, exceptional service, and a commitment to excellence, all with a personal touch. For more information, visit www.AllerganAesthetics.com.

Position Description

 

Manage a regional team of MSLs to achieve Medical Affairs team goals and objectives aligned with strategic plan. Participate in the Medical Affairs Leadership Team and be involved in development of the Medical Affairs Plan and its execution.

 

Spend appropriate time in the field working with MSLs to provide feedback and coaching regarding the performance of the MSLs, and to endure their continual development. Recruit, hire, mentor MSLs who perform at high levels and align with the Allergan company values

 

Strategic involvement in the development and execution of Medical Affairs and field MSL Plans to support the disease state education/pre-launch, launch, commercialization and lifecycle management of products through scientific discussion

 

Provides effective communication and recommendations to the Clinical, Commercial, and Leadership teams to improve the performance of the organization

 

Main Areas of Responsibility

 

  • Ensure the MSL field activities are aligned to Medical Affairs objectives and on target with field metrics
  • Oversee MSL training and development activities
  • Establish and maintain relationships with Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) in respective therapeutic area to establish strong scientific presence in the practicing and academic communities. Demonstrate TA and scientific expertise to ensure KOL cultivation/communication is optimized. Address field escalations as needed.
  • Create and maintain core presentation materials to be delivered at internal Medical Affairs trainings and external medical professional forums, such as advisory boards and scientific exchange meetings
  • Function as key strategic partner with Clinical Development, HEOR, Marketing, Regulatory, and Legal teams to execute medical life cycle plan; implementing strategies and tactics in support of brand development in Body Contouring.
  • Direct the coordination and utilization of scientific information that may be used by various internal stakeholders in support of marketed devices or pipeline
  • Provides strategic medical practice input to the Product Development Teams to ensure that appropriate Phase IV studies are planned and executed to provide practice relevant data on the marketed products. In addition, provide inputs from medical practice perspective to HEOR team for real world studies as needed.
  • Within the context of the strategic development and brand plans for each product and the therapeutic area, evaluate proposed research concepts and protocols for investigator initiated studies (IIT), assessing such IITs for medical/scientific merit, appropriate design and strategic fit for the product.
  • Complete operational responsibilities in timely manner, such as expense report review and approval, metric reports, CRM platform optimization etc.

     


Qualifications

Requirements

•           MD, PhD, or PharmD required

•           Min. 8 years total experience, of which min. 5 years in academic research, clinical practice, regulatory/scientific, or medical science liaison environment

•           Experience in Body Contouring or Aesthetic medicine disciplines highly preferred.

 

Preferred Qualifications

 

•           Scientific and pharmaceutical knowledge and/or experience to enable ability to effectively learn and convey clinical and non-clinical technical information

•           Strong team, leadership, planning and organizational skills

•           Strong presentation, teaching skills and written/verbal communication skills necessary to meet the needs of various audiences

•           Strong interpersonal, influencing and conflict resolution skills

•           Demonstrated analytical and problem solving skills

•           Ability to work independently

•           Ability to lead and influence key decision makers and develop and maintain strong relationships in order to work closely with outside physicians/scientists, and numerous in-house support groups

•           Ability to travel to domestic and international locations

•           Proven abilities in business planning with financial/budgetary experience

•           Proficiency in database searching and knowledge of evidence based medicine concepts and criteria

•           Proficiency in Windows, Excel, Word, Power Point, and other software skills


Significant Work Activities
N/A
Travel
No
Job Type
Experienced
Schedule
Full-time
Job Level Code
D
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.
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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