Pharmacometrician

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

Conceive and execute statistical and mathematical models that achieve projects, Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics goals. Propose PK/PD modeling and simulation ideas and implement those efforts. Investigate, identify, develop, and optimize methods and techniques in the field of PK/PD modeling. Act as a lead pharmacometrician in your area of expertise and critically evaluate relevant Pharmacometric, PK/PD, Clinical Pharmacology, and regulatory advances to integrate this knowledge into Clinical Pharmacology strategy for research or development programs.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to clinical development by supporting Phase 1-4 studies with data analysis, modeling and simulation evaluations to guide study design, and clinical pharmacology strategy.
• Author regulatory documents including analysis plans, study reports, population PK reports, exposure-response analyses reports, common technical documents, white papers, and other similar documents.
• Conduct data analyses including non-compartmental analyses, modeling and simulation, advanced analytics, as well as literature data analyses.
• Participate and present at various departmental and cross-functional teams such as Clin Pharm meetings, Journal club.
• Collaborate with scientific support from other Clinical Pharmacology functional groups to provide a unified clinical pharmacology position to clinical, CMC, and regulatory teams.
• Author scientific publications and present at scientific conferences.

Qualifications

• PhD with 0 years of experience in a relevant field, Masters Degree or equivalent education and typically 7+ years of experience, Bachelors Degree or equivalent education and typically 10+ years of experience. (*Relevant field includes experience with data science, mathematics, biostatistics, modeling and simulation, Pharmacometrics, or systems pharmacology.)
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to interact externally and internally and perform in a team setting.
• Demonstrates scientific acumen and has technical skills to perform the role.

Skills

• Persistent and resilient; finds the way to move good ideas forward.
• Uses mistakes, failure, and reflection as vehicles for learning and improvement.
• Delivers business results while also positioning AbbVie for long-term success.
• Connects unrelated concepts, generates original or unique ideas.
• Influences colleagues to achieve cross-functional alignment.

Pay

The compensation range described is the range of possible base pay that AbbVie believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of posting, based on the job grade. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and may ultimately differ from the posted range.

Benefits

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