Associate Scientific Director, Medical Affairs – Rheumatology, US Medical Affairs

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 www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

The Associate Scientific Director, Medical Affairs, provides strategic and operational input into core medical affairs activities for AbbVie’s Rheumatology Therapeutic Area. Responsibilities include engaging with healthcare professionals and providers; generating clinical and scientific data to enhance therapeutic benefit and value; supporting educational initiatives such as medical education and dissemination of data. . The role works closely with commercial teams to provide strategic medical input into core brand strategies, supports medical and marketing activities (including the development of promotional materials).

This position is based at the Mettawa IL office and will follow a hybrid schedule of 3x/week onsite.

Key Responsibilities:

• With oversight, provides input into the development of the medical strategy for approved assets within the therapeutic area.
• Contributes to the development of, and leads the execution of, medical education tactics (i.e., field medical resources), advisory boards, and thought leader engagement plans in alignment with the indication or asset's strategic plan.
• Leads conference planning and execution; represents AbbVie at external scientific meetings.
• Responsible for performing accurate and detailed medical reviews of complex advertising and promotional materials for assigned therapeutic area(s) within Medical Affairs. Provides timely and accurate reviews of promotional materials in accordance with established policies and practice standards, including regulatory guidelines, to meet customer needs.
• Leads internal medical training activities, including asset onboarding and ongoing education for cross-functional teams.
• Supports the generation of clinical and scientific evidence to address identified evidence gaps.
• Manages budgets for assigned Medical Affairs projects and initiatives.
• Works closely with International Medical Affairs team to drive synergy and efficiency in content creation and pull through with a Global content perspective, where applicable

• Scientific degree (bachelor’s) required. Advanced Degree: PhD, PharmD, PA or NP strongly preferred. Residency or additional post doctorate experience preferred.
• Minimum 3-5 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry or equivalent; substantial understanding of relevant therapeutic area preferred.
• Knowledge of clinical trial methodology, regulatory requirements governing clinical trials
• Interactions normally require the ability to gain cooperation of others, conduct presentations of technical information concerning specific projects and schedules, etc.
• Must possess excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Interact 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.
• Works with some supervision and guidance. Exercises judgment within well-defined practices and policies.

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

• 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 thetime 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. ​

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 anybonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's soleand 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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