Associate Scientific Director, Rheumatology

Summary

Join AbbVie as an Associate Director and contribute your medical and scientific expertise to core medical affairs activities. You will collaborate with commercial teams, providing strategic medical input into brand strategies and supporting marketing initiatives. Lead and coordinate internal scientific and medical activities, engaging with stakeholders across various departments. Deliver scientific and medical education to internal and external teams, and lead external medical affairs activities such as advisory boards and congress support. Develop scientifically accurate marketing materials and participate in clinical research activities, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. This position offers the flexibility of being based in Lake County, IL, or remotely in the U.S. or Europe.

Requirements

• Medical Doctorate (M.D.) degree or equivalent (D.O. or non-US equivalent of M.D) or PhD in relevant field
• Minimum of 5 years of clinical trial or medical affairs experience in the pharmaceutical industry
• Knowledge of clinical trial methodology, data analysis and interpretation, regulatory requirements governing clinical trials and experience in development strategy and the design of protocols
• Deep understanding of the clinical research and development process
• Ability to run a clinical study independently with little supervision
• Proven leadership skills in a cross-functional team environment
• Ability to interact externally and internally to support business strategy
• Must possess excellent oral and written English communication skills

Responsibilities

• Leads and coordinates appropriate internal facing scientific and medical activities with internal stakeholders (i.e. commercial, clinical operations, discovery, statistics, regulatory etc) including but not limited to evidence gap workshops, scientific platform and narrative, external expert engagement mapping, medical education projects, and planning ahead of key scientific meetings/congresses aligned to the Medical Functional Plan
• Provides scientific/medical education to investigators, clinical monitors, and 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
• Initiates medical affairs activities, generation and dissemination of data supporting the overall scientific strategy
• Leadership of external Medical Affairs activities such as, but not limited to, advisory boards, congress support, medical education programs, training and symposia
• Assists 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 medical affairs sponsored or supported clinical research activities
• Ensures budgets, timelines, compliance requirements are factored into medical affairs programs and scientific activities
• Participation in the design, analyses, interpretation, and reporting of scientific content related to protocols, Investigator Brochures, Clinical Study Reports and regulatory submissions and responses
• Participates in the design and execution of clinical trial safety, product safety and risk management plans. May also carry responsibility for routine and ad hoc safety monitoring reports to regulatory agencies
• Responsible for understanding the regulatory requirements related to the clinical studies and global drug development and accountable for complying with those requirements

Preferred Qualifications

• Completion of residency and/or fellowship is preferred
• Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) or Autoinmune diseases experience is strongly preferred
• Experience in pre-launch/launch activities for rheumatological indications is prefered
• Experience working within Rheumatology highly preferred

Benefits

• Paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick)
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Short-term incentive programs
• Long-term incentive programs