Oncology Nurse Educator - Pacific Northwest

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.

About the role

This role is field-based; candidates should live within a reasonable distance from San Francisco, Seattle, or Portland. The Oncology Nurse Educator (ONE) will proactively engage with allied healthcare professionals to provide product and disease education in support of before, during, and after patient management on approved therapies. The ONE will focus on providing ongoing education and resources related to patient management, dosing and administration, and side-effect management. The ONE will collaborate with other field teams within ways-of-working guidelines to ensure education support for allied healthcare clinicians.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a strategic education leader across academic and community oncology accounts by providing proactive and reactive education with approved resources to patient care team members.
• Develop customized educational plans through analysis of account dynamics and clinical insights that meet the patient care team’s needs and clinical challenges.
• Educate on the preparation and administration requirements of therapeutic-area products, and adverse-event mitigation, monitoring, and management.
• Interpret and communicate relevant clinical education topics to diverse audiences using materials approved for the role.
• Educate on disease-state awareness, including clinical and operational aspects of appropriate patient diagnosis.
• Provide education programs through 1:1 presentations/in-services and other approved methods, which may include round-table discussions and podium presentations.
• Educate patient care teams about the infusion process associated with the product.
• Utilize strategic questioning and active listening to routinely document and share clinical insights.
• Attend and provide clinical information and/or presentations at internal national, regional, and local meetings.
• Provide staff support as appropriate at exhibit booths and displays.
• Support training initiatives clinically and improve the clinical competencies of the internal sales team.
• Collaborate across internal functional areas as it relates to the Oncology business (e.g., sales, marketing, clinical operations, medical, clinical value & evidence).
• Potentially provide education to patients in patient-advocacy meeting settings using materials and messaging tailored and approved for such audiences.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required (Nursing or Nurse Practitioner preferred).
• Master’s-level education preferred.
• Three or more years of combined clinical experience and/or pharmaceutical sales, clinical educator, or medical affairs experience (Oncology preferred).
• Experience working in or supporting patients and healthcare professionals in the infusion-center setting, including development/implementation of chemotherapy/biologics infusion procedures and protocols for therapy administration and patient-safety monitoring, is preferred.
• Excellent communication, objective-setting, influencing, business-acumen, and analytical skills.
• Demonstrated experience adapting to change and embracing learning.
• Demonstrated experience interpreting clinical and pharmacoeconomic data.
• Recognizes evolving shifts in oncology market trends and respective effects on providers and patients.
• Success operating within a cross-functional team.
• Proficiency in Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and other relevant applications.
• Must be able to travel 50% of the time, including overnight and occasional weekends.
• Valid driver’s license; ability to pass a pre-employment drug screening test and meet safe-driving requirements.

Benefits

• Comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick).
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Eligibility to participate in long-term incentive programs.