Scientific Director / Medical Director, Medical Affairs – Oncology

About the role

The Medical Affairs (MA) organization at AbbVie provides patients, healthcare providers, and payers with the practical and clinically relevant information and solutions needed to use AbbVie's products safely and effectively. The Scientific Director / Medical Director plays a crucial role in strategic and operational medical affairs activities for AbbVie's Oncology portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Initiates medical affairs activities, generation and dissemination of data supporting the therapeutic area scientific strategy
• Provides scientific/medical education to all relevant internal stakeholders related to therapeutic area or disease specific information
• Develops and executes Medical Affairs support of priority clinical development trials
• 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
• Generates clinical and scientific data per evidence gap assessment
• Acts as a clinical interface and actively solicits opinion through leader interactions related to the molecule and disease area; partners with Medical Affairs, Commercial and other functions in these activities as required
• May be 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 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
• May assist as consultant and liaison with other corporations when working under licensing agreements and/or in the evaluation of new business development opportunities
• Represents AbbVie at external meetings including investigator meetings, scientific association meetings, etc.
• Ensures budgets, timelines, compliance requirements are factored into programs' scientific activities

Qualifications

• Scientific Director: Bachelor’s Degree in the sciences. Advanced Degree PhD, PharmD, PA or NP preferred. Residency or additional post doctorate experience preferred. 5-7+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry or equivalent; substantial understanding of relevant therapeutic area required.
• Medical Director: Medical Doctorate (M.D.) degree or equivalent (D.O. or non-US equivalent of M.D.). Relevant therapeutic specialty in an academic or hospital environment preferred. Completion of residency and/or fellowship preferred. 0-2+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry or equivalent. Knowledge of clinical trial methodology, regulatory requirements governing clinical trials and experience in the design of protocols preferred. May have performed protocol design in the academic environment and/or acted as an assistant PI.