Senior Pharmacometrician

About the Company

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, execute, and communicate multi-disciplinary modeling and simulations exercises to support development plans and strategies to achieve commercial goals and regulatory requirements for multiple functions. Generate new PK/PD modeling and simulation proposals and lead those efforts. Investigate, identify, develop, and optimize new methods and techniques in the field of PK/PD modeling and statistical data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Execute strategy, lead teams, and perform various data analyses and interpretation by providing necessary context (including explaining MoA and disease specifics, available relevant internal and external data, analysis plans, interpretation, and discussion of model results in the context of research questions).
• Assist Clinical Pharmacology senior management in selecting action plans that best meet business needs in drug development.
• Author regulatory documents including PK/PD analysis plans, study reports, population PK reports, exposure-response analyses reports, common technical documents, labels, white papers, and other similar documents.
• Represent Pharmacometrics in Clinical Pharmacology and clinical project teams and present in project team meetings and to Clinical Pharmacology Leadership.
• Collaborate with the Clinical Pharmacology TA leads to develop a unified Clinical Pharmacology position.
• Author scientific publications and present at national and international conferences, interacting with external stakeholders.
• Participate in internal and external initiatives/working groups (e.g., process harmonization, IMI calls, ISoP groups).

Qualifications

• PhD with typically 3+ years of experience in a relevant field, Master’s Degree or equivalent education and typically 9+ years of experience, Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent education and typically 13+ 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 with functional representatives internally.
• Strategic thinking and enterprise view.
• Proven scientific track record and technical skills to perform the role.

Key Leadership Competencies

• Delivers business results while also positioning AbbVie for long-term success.
• Persistent and resilient, finds the way to move good ideas forward.
• Acts respectfully yet courageously.
• Connects unrelated concepts, generates original or unique ideas.
• Influences colleagues to achieve cross-functional alignment.
• Gives full accountability when delegating and accepts full accountability when delegated to by others.

Benefits

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