Senior Scientific Director International Medical Affairs - Gastroenterology

Senior Scientific Director International Medical Affairs Gastroenterology:

• Provides specialist medical and scientific strategic and operational input into core medical affairs activities such as: healthcare professional/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 / safety surveillance activities).
• Works closely with marketing and commercial teams to provide strategic medical input into core brand (product) strategies and to support medical/marketing activities (promotional material generation/product launches) and market access.
• Drives GMA input into and influences the development of asset strategy.
• Provides specialist medical insights and executes on data generation communication and expert engagement activities as deliverables to relevant Asset Strategy Teams (ASTs) for late stage development program including leading or contributing to: comprehensive gap assessment development of Scientific Communication Platform development of integrated evidence plans to support launch readiness.
• Leads external stakeholder interactions (Payers Patients Prescribers and Providers).
• Drives scientific communication initiatives (both internal and external medical education data guidelines and value proposition). 

Responsibilities:

• In collaboration with Global Medical teams Clinical Development Commercial Market Access HEOR and other functional areas provides leadership oversight and support for assigned indications/projects. Works closely with Brand Teams and relevant crossfunctional area/affiliate medical teams to provide strategic input into core asset strategy and to drive medical activities.
• Initiates medical affairs activities and generation and dissemination of data supporting overall product scientific and business strategy. Develops innovative research concepts for clinical data generation; provides relevant scientific and technical training to internal teams globally.
• Provides scientific and technical support for assigned assets; delivers scientific presentations; develops and maintains professional and credible relationships with key opinion leaders; actively participates in relevant Asset crossfunctional teams and drives the development of medical affairs objectives aligned with strategy.
• Works cross functionally to lead the development of the asset Phase 3b/4 strategy.
• Reviews assesses and reports applicable Adverse Events (AEs) and Serious Adverse Events (SAEs) if assigned to AbbVie conduct on clinical studies.
• Leads the development and execution of advisory boards scientific and medical education programs. Provides scientific/medical education to all relevant internal stakeholders 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 specific therapeutic area resource. Initiate research projects and drive them to completion resulting in high quality publications.
• Lead functional and cross functional teams responsible for discrete projects within the specific therapeutic area (data analysis expert engagement individual publications study collaborations)
• Represents Medical Affairs in due diligence activities for the acquisition of assets aligned with the Disease Area Strategy.
• Ensures budgets timelines compliance requirements are factored into programs scientific activities.

This a hybrid role based in Lake County IL

Qualifications :

• Advanced Degree PhD or PharmD. Additional post doctorate experience highly preferred.
• Typically 15 years experience in the pharmaceutical industry or equivalent. Minimum of 10 years of clinical trial or medical affairs experience in the pharmaceutical industry or academia or equivalent.
• Proven leadership skills in a crossfunctional global team environment. Ability to interact externally and internally to support global business strategy.
• Expert knowledge in a relevant therapeutic specialty.
• Ability to interact externally and internally to support global business strategy.
• Proven ability to run a clinical study or medical affairs crossfunctional team independently.
• Knowledge of clinical trial methodology regulatory requirements governing clinical trials and experience in development strategy and the design of protocols.
• Must possess excellent oral and written English communication skills.
• People leadership experience required.

Additional Information :

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 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 shortterm incentive programs. 

• This job is eligible to participate in our longterm 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 any bonus commission incentive benefits or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Companys sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Companys sole and absolute discretion consistent with applicable law. 

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