Scientific Director, International Medical Affairs- Parkinson's Disease - Ireland, United Kingdom - AbbVie

Description

Company Description

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 – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Job Description

*Position can sit in IL HQ office, or one of our affiliate locations.

Provides specialist medical and scientific strategic and operational input into core medical affairs activities such as: health-care professional and provider interactions; generation of clinical and scientific data (enhancing therapeutic benefit and value); educational initiatives (medical education, scientific communications, and value proposition) and safeguarding patient safety (risk minimization activities and safety surveillance activities). Works closely with commercial teams to provide strategic medical input into core brand (Parkinson ́s Disease Franchise) strategies, and to support medical affairs, marketing activities (promotional material generation and product launches) and market access.

Responsibilities:

• Initiates medical affairs activities, generation and dissemination of data supporting the overall scientific strategy.
• Responsible from Medical Affairs for the design, analysis, interpretation, and reporting of scientific content of protocols, Investigator Brochures, Clinical Study Reports and regulatory submissions and responses.
• Has overall responsibility for oversight of the Medical Affairs-led clinical studies, monitoring overall study integrity and review, interpretation and communication of accumulating data pertaining to safety and efficacy of the PD franchise products. As the Study Lead, is responsible for oversight of study enrollment and overall timelines for key deliverables.
• Provides in-house clinical expertise for the molecule and disease, coordinating appropriate scientific activities with internal stakeholders as they relate to ongoing clinical projects. May participate in due diligence or other business development activity. As required by program needs, contributes partnering with Discovery colleagues on the design and implementation of translational strategies.
• Acts as a clinical interface and actively solicits opinion through leader interactions related to the molecule and disease area; partners with other functions in these activities as required, consistent with corporate policies, to ensure that broad cross-functional perspectives are aligned with the strategy and incorporated into the Evidence Generation Plans as appropriate.
• May assist in the development of scientifically accurate marketing materials, medical education programs, advisories, and symposia. Assists with the scientific review, development, approval, execution, and communication of affiliate/area/global medical affairs sponsored or supported clinical research activities.
• May interact with and coordinates appropriate scientific and medical activities with internal stakeholders (i.e., commercial, market access, clinical operations, discovery, statistics, regulatory, etc...) as they relate to on-going medical affairs projects. Serves as the scientific team interface for key regulatory discussions.
• Provide scientific/medical education to investigators, clinical monitors, and Global Project Team members related to therapeutic area or disease specific information. Keeps abreast of professional information and technology through conferences and/or medical literature and acts as a therapeutic area resource.
• Ensures budgets, timelines, compliance requirements are factored into programs' scientific activities.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Advanced degree (MD, PharmD or PhD) with relevant Neuroscience specialty experience highly preferred. Completion of residency and/or fellowship is desirable.
• 7-10 years of experience in Medical Affairs with Global Medical Affairs experience highly preferred.
• Minimum of 4 years of clinical trials direct management experience in the pharmaceutical industry or academia or equivalent. 4+ years of experience is preferred.
• Knowledge of clinical trial methodology, data analysis and interpretation, regulatory requirements governing clinical trials and experience in development strategy and the design of protocols.
• Ability to run a clinical study independently with little supervision
• Works on complex problems in which analysis of situation or data limitations requires an in-depth evaluation of various complex factors, with discipline and across several projects.
• Exercises judgment within broadly defined practices and policies in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
• Proven leadership skills in a cross-functional global team environment.
• Must possess excellent oral and written English communication skills.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

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• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​
• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​​
• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs. ​

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Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. ​

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AbbVie is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie's policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.