Senior Clinical Pharmacologist (Specialty)

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 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 the PK/PD field. Act as a lead PK scientist in your area of expertise and critically evaluate relevant Clinical Pharmacology, PK/PD, and regulatory advances, integrating 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, and literature data analyses.
• Participate and present at various departmental and cross-functional teams such as study teams, clinical pharmacology and biopharmaceutics, clinical strategy team, Clinical Pharmacology leadership team, and 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

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 the Company 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 the Company may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.

Benefits

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