Senior Clinical Pharmacologist

About the role

Conceive and execute novel scientific research or development in Clinical Pharmacology that achieves projects and Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics (CPPM) goals. Generate new PK/PD proposals and lead those efforts. Investigate, identify, develop, and optimize new methods and techniques in PK/PD field. Act as a lead PK scientist in his/her area of expertise and critically evaluate relevant Clinical Pharmacology, PK/PD and regulatory advances and integrate this knowledge into research or development programs.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to clinical development by supporting Phase 1–4 studies including study design and clinical pharmacology strategy.
• Author regulatory documents including protocols, study reports, population PK reports, exposure–response analyses reports, relevant sections of investigator brochures, common technical documents, white papers, and other similar documents.
• Conduct data analyses including non-compartmental analyses, modeling and simulation, literature data analyses.
• Participate in and present at various departmental and cross-functional teams such as study teams, clinical pharmacology and biopharmaceutics, clinical strategy team, Clinical Pharmacology leadership team, 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, or PharmD with 2+ years of experience in a relevant field.
• Master’s degree or equivalent education and typically 8+ years of experience, Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education and typically 10+ years of experience; relevant field includes experience with PK, PBPK, PK–PD, pharmacometrics or systems pharmacology, drug metabolism/transporters.
• 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.
• Key leadership competencies: 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.