Scientific Director, Medical Affairs - Parkinson's Disease

AbbVie; Illinois; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie in Lake County, IL, a hybrid role within Medical Affairs, seeks a Scientific Director to guide medical and scientific input for the Neuroscience portfolio, support launch activities, and lead educational initiatives. The role collaborates with commercial teams and clinical development, ensuring safety and value communication across stakeholders.

The position requires an advanced degree and 5–7+ years in pharma, with strong oral and written communication, trial methodology knowledge, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in the sciences required.
• Advanced Degree PhD, PharmD, PA or NP preferred.
• Residency or additional post doctorate experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Contributes to development of brand strategies.
• Lead and support Medical Affairs initiatives (strategy and tactics) for Parkinson’s Disease asset launch.
• Contributes to development and execution of Medical Education / Advisory Board & EE Engagement Plan, including conference planning.
• Leads internal training activities.
• Generates clinical and scientific data per evidence gap assessment.
• Responsible to manage budget for assigned projects.
• May support cross-functional teams with subject matter expertise.
• Participants in generation of MI content and training on Medical Information materials.
• Undertakes medical review of complex advertising and promotional materials within Medical Affairs.

Skills

Communication

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in sciences

PhD/PharmD/PA/NP advanced degree preferred

Job description

About AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions 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 including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn,Facebook,Instagram,XandYouTube.

The Medical Affairs (MA) organization provides patients, healthcare providers and payers everywhere with the practical and clinically relevant information and solutions they need to use AbbVie products safely and effectively, throughout the product lifecycle and the patient’s journey.

Scientific Director provides medical and scientific input into strategic and operational medical affairs activities for AbbVie’s Neuroscience portfolio such as: health care professional and provider interactions (Payers, Patients, Prescribers, and Providers); generation of clinical and scientific data (enhancing therapeutic benefit and value); educational initiatives (medical education, data, guidelines, and value proposition); safeguarding patient safety (risk minimization activities and safety surveillance activities).

Works closely with 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. Executes core medical affair tactics to support launch. Collaborates with clinical development on Medical Affairs support of priority trials.

Key responsibilities:

• Contributes to the development of brand strategies.
• Lead and support Medical Affairs initiatives (strategy and tactics) for Parkinson’s Disease asset launch
• Contributes to the development of and leads the execution of the Medical Education / Advisory Board & EE Engagement Plan generation in line with TA plan. Lead the individual (Global) Conference planning and execution.
• Leads the development and execution of internal training activities
• Generates clinical and scientific data per evidence gap assessment.
• Responsible to manage budget for assigned projects.
• May support cross-functional teams with subject matter expertise.
• Actively contributes to the development of a TA EE Engagement Plan.
• Contributes to the generation of MI communication content and supports training on Medical Information (MI) materials.
• 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.
• May assist as consultant and liaison with other corporations when working under licensing agreements and/or in the evaluation of new business development opportunities.

This is a hybrid role based in Lake County, IL preferably

• Bachelor’s Degree in the sciences required. Advanced Degree PhD, PharmD, PA or NP preferred. Residency oradditional post doctorate experience preferred.
• 5-7+ years of 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.
• 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.
• Works with some supervision and guidance. Exercises judgment within well-defined practices and policies.
• Ability to interact with and coordinate 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.
• Works with some supervision and guidance. Exercises judgment within well-defined practices and policies.

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state orlocal law:

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Companybelieves ingood faith it will pay for this role at the timeof this posting based on the job grade for this position.Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, andwemayultimatelypaymore or less than the posted range. This range may bemodifiedin thefuture.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),medical/dental/visioninsurance and 401(k) to eligibleemployees.
• This job is eligible toparticipatein our long-term incentiveprograms.

Note: No amount of payis considered to bewages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, anddeterminable.The amount and availability of any bonus,commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form ofcompensation and benefitsthat are allocable to a particular employeeremainsin the Company's sole andabsolutediscretion unless and until paid andmay bemodifiedat the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable law.

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