Scientific Director, Medical Affairs - Parkinson's Disease
Lake County, ILAll locationsLake County, ILIrvine, CA, United States Hybrid
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About the role
The Medical Affairs (MA) organization provides patients, healthcare providers and payers everywhere with the practical and clinically relevant information and solutions they need to use AbbVie products safely and effectively, throughout the product lifecycle and the patient’s journey. Scientific Director provides medical and scientific input into strategic and operational medical affairs activities for AbbVie’s Neuroscience portfolio such as: health care professional and provider interactions (Payers, Patients, Prescribers, and Providers); generation of clinical and scientific data (enhancing therapeutic benefit and value); educational initiatives (medical education, data, guidelines, and value proposition); safeguarding patient safety (risk minimization activities and safety surveillance activities). Works closely with commercial teams to provide strategic medical input into core brand (product) strategies, and to support medical and marketing activities (promotional material generation and product launches) and market access. Executes core medical affair tactics to support launch. Collaborates with clinical development on Medical Affairs support of priority trials.
What you'll bring
- Bachelor’s Degree in the sciences required.
- 5-7+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry or equivalent
- substantial understanding of relevant therapeutic area required.
- Interactions normally require the ability to gain cooperation of others, conduct presentations of technical information concerning specific projects and schedules, etc.
- Ability to interact externally and internally to support global business strategy.
- Must possess excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Works with some supervision and guidance.
- Exercises judgment within well-defined practices and policies.
- Ability to 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.
- Advanced Degree PhD, PharmD, PA or NP preferred.
- Residency or additional post doctorate experience preferred.
- Knowledge of clinical trial methodology, regulatory requirements governing clinical trials and experience in the design of protocols preferred.