Msl Field Director, Oncology/Hematology

Summary

Join AbbVie as a Field Director, MSL, a remote role requiring proximity to major cities within a specified territory. You will lead and develop a team of Medical Science Liaisons (MSLs), overseeing their performance, training, and strategic alignment with AbbVie's objectives. Responsibilities include strategic planning, financial management, and ensuring compliance. The ideal candidate possesses a health sciences degree (advanced degree preferred), significant pharmaceutical field experience, and strong leadership skills. AbbVie offers a comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, health insurance, and participation in short-term and long-term incentive programs.

Requirements

• Live in the territory or be willing to self-relocate within the territory
• Have a Bachelor’s degree in the health sciences from an accredited university
• Have 3-5 years’ experience with demonstrated leadership success in pharmaceutical field-based experience and/or pharmaceutical industry related experience
• Exhibit teamwork
• Possess excellent analytical, conceptual and administrative skills
• Possess advanced communication skills (oral, written and presentation)
• Possess excellent problem solving and analytic capability in concert with strong negotiation skills
• Be competent to use standard computer technologies including integrated business software (word processing, spreadsheet) and other common applications
• Have the ability to influence without authority
• Demonstrate exceptional business judgment
• Demonstrate the ability to manage multiple priorities
• Be able to identify and analyze the needs of the business and translate problems into business opportunities
• Have knowledge of personnel management including recruitment, hiring, progressive discipline process, coaching and motivation

Responsibilities

• Recruit and retain key talent for AbbVie
• Build an organization reflecting a diverse and inclusive workforce through identification of team capability gaps and independent strengths
• Establish a productive work environment by creating trust and respect within the group and establish self as a business partner
• Consistently model “One-AbbVie” and AbbVie Ways of Working Leadership behaviors
• Provide coaching, mentoring and guidance that is consistent and timely to MSLs regarding their individual performance and progress, including annual performance reviews, growth and succession planning, and real time field reports based upon regular field travel combined with data analysis
• Address performance issues decisively and appropriately in accordance with AbbVie’s guidelines and Performance Excellence process
• Maintain ultimate responsibility for scientific knowledge of self/team and oversight of MSL territory plans
• Maintain clinical knowledge of designated therapeutic area and broad market knowledge of the region, including current treatment strategies, current and pending competitors, new therapeutic developments, payor dynamics, and other market issues/trends as it pertains to specific medical business interests
• Maintain deep understanding of therapeutic strategy and interpretation of analytics to inform and maximize MSL Core Capabilities
• Be accountable for the direction and execution of MSL’s regional goals/objectives and territory plans
• Evaluate appropriate tools and analytics to ensure optimal trial performance through investigator engagement and excellence in collaboration and coordination with clinical operations within the geographic region
• Maximize In-Field Team Effectiveness
• Ensure that MSL team members maintain adequate communications and interaction with the field sales organization, when appropriate and according to compliance and regulatory guidelines
• Ensure cross-functional ways of working with field-medical partners in Clinical Development, Clinical Operations, Medical Value and Access, Site Management and Monitoring teams
• Assist leadership with business/clinical strategy and tactical plan development, tactical plan implementation, impact goal achievement, and quantification of results at the field level
• Be accountable for and have decision-making responsibility for deploying regional resources to support franchise and business initiatives and ensure attainment of medical objectives
• Ensure MSLs have the necessary tools, training, and materials to perform effectively
• Be responsible for identifying and partnering on potential projects that would enhance organizational impact and/or lead to successful execution of therapeutic Medical Objectives
• Work with other MSL Field Directors regarding standardization and consistency of MSL role
• Identify opportunities for cross-functional integration of MSL roles and activities at the field level
• Communicate regional activities and results to Field Medical Lead and other cross-functional leadership
• Translate Field-Medical execution and initiatives to enhance cross functional collaboration with aligned stakeholders
• Synthesize DPOs and provide field insights, along with FML, to relevant internal stakeholders
• Ensure MSL team members update and maintain all required databases with current and complete information
• Ensure appropriate documentation of EE/HCP Customer interactions and responses to unsolicited requests
• Ensure team member adherence to regulatory and compliance guidelines in all aspects of scientific dissemination of information
• Manage activities within assigned budget

Preferred Qualifications

• Have an advanced degree in a relevant scientific discipline
• Have a doctorate in a health science or clinical discipline
• Have greater than 7 years’ experience
• Have oncology experience
• Exhibit leadership attributes that align with company-wide initiatives such as: All for One AbbVie, Clear and Courageous, Make Possibilities Real, Agile and Accountable, and Decide Smart and Sure
• Have flexibility in adapting/reacting to changing market dynamics and competitive challenges
• Have tolerance for ambiguity and the ability to be flexible within the work environment
• Have a high sense of urgency and commitment to excellence in the successful achievement of objectives
• Have excellent planning and organizational skills to demonstrate leadership and initiative

Benefits

• Paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick)
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Participation in short-term incentive programs
• Participation in long-term incentive programs