Oncology Diagnostic Liaison - Seattle / San Francisco / Portland

About the role

This role is field-based and candidates should live within a reasonable distance from the primary city. This geography covers Seattle, San Francisco, and Portland area.

Responsibilities

• Educating key stakeholders, including pathologists, executive level lab decision makers, lab personnel and other oncology multi-disciplinary team members, on relevant CDx and testing information related to approved AbbVie Oncology products.
• Serving as a subject matter expert within territory to optimize biomarker testing as a precision medicine and diagnostics subject matter expert.
• Developing account-specific business plans in collaboration with field sales team to promote customer implementation of high quality, timely, standardized biomarker testing.
• Demonstrate knowledge of, access to, and the ability to influence key biomarker testing stakeholders in targeted accounts (Pathologist, Lab Director and personnel, EHR champion).
• Partnering with external parties, including reference lab and diagnostic partner field teams, to ensure aligned biomarker testing messaging to key stakeholders.
• Building relationships with precision medicine stakeholders and pathologists aligned to the US Commercial Precision Medicine and portfolio strategy, including through local pathology societies; identify external experts to support commercial activities.
• Executing educational programs on biomarker testing for purposes of educating relevant stakeholders on the importance of high-quality, standardized testing.
• Representing AbbVie at relevant local and national pathology and precision medicine conferences to educate on the biomarkers relevant to approved AbbVie oncology products.
• Driving biomarker testing process standardization and efficiencies with pathology customers and accounts, including EHR integration.
• Mastery of technical & market knowledge related to oncology Dx testing (e.g., IHC, FISH, NGS) and how it fits in the treatment paradigm of targeted therapies and/or genomically-defined tumors.
• Sharing account insights / market intelligence on diagnostics and testing with AbbVie internal teams to inform future strategy development.
• Attending internal field meetings/trainings (at times, with external CDx collaboration partner and AbbVie sales).

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree; advanced degree in life sciences preferred.
• 4+ years of industry experience (pharmaceutical and/or device sales) or diagnostics (IVD or laboratory industry) experience; oncology experience highly preferred.
• Demonstrated clinical and business acumen in oncology, diagnostics, hospital laboratory.
• Experience / comfort presenting and discussing scientific content relevant to biology of cancer and molecular genomics.
• Thorough knowledge of diagnostic oncology market: precision oncology, biomarker testing and technologies, multidisciplinary environments in oncology.
• Established relationships with diagnostic laboratories, oncologists and/or pathologists, precision medicine department leaders highly preferred.
• Ability to travel up to 80% of the time.
• Driving a personal auto or company car or truck, or a powered piece of material handling equipment.
• Valid driver’s license: Ability to pass a pre-employment drug screening test and meet safe driving requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree; advanced degree in life sciences preferred.
• 4+ years of industry experience (pharmaceutical and/or device sales) or diagnostics (IVD or laboratory industry) experience; oncology experience highly preferred.
• Demonstrated clinical and business acumen in oncology, diagnostics, hospital laboratory.
• Experience / comfort presenting and discussing scientific content relevant to biology of cancer and molecular genomics.
• Thorough knowledge of diagnostic oncology market: precision oncology, biomarker testing and technologies, multidisciplinary environments in oncology.
• Established relationships with diagnostic laboratories, oncologists and/or pathologists, precision medicine department leaders highly preferred.
• Ability to travel up to 80% of the time.
• Driving a personal auto or company car or truck, or a powered piece of material handling equipment.
• Valid driver’s license: Ability to pass a pre-employment drug screening test and meet safe driving requirements.

Skills

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders.
• Knowledge of oncology and diagnostic testing processes.
• Ability to present complex scientific information in a clear and concise manner.

Benefits

AbbVie offers a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Pay

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.

Schedule

Individuals in this role will be expected to travel up to 80% of the time.