Assistant Scientific Director, Medical Affairs - Parkinson's and/or Movement Disorders

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 Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn. 

*Hybrid (3x per week onsite) in Florham Park, NJ preferred. Will consider remote candidates.

The Assistant Scientific Director is responsible for ensuring scientific pull-through of key medical strategies into communications across multiple channels. Provides support for assigned products and is responsible for designing and implementing training content and programs, developing scientific resources for field medical, developing and leading congress strategy, and performing detailed and accurate review of complex advertising and promotional materials while ensuring the highest level of clinical and business competency of the medical teams in support of organizational and franchise goals.

Functions in a medical/scientific leadership role within assigned therapeutic area supporting on-market products, new indications/disease states, competitive intelligence and pipeline products.  Maintains current therapeutic expertise necessary to serve as scientific, medical, and clinical expert to field medical teams/affiliates, TA teams, and brand teams.

Key responsibilities include:

• Identification of Insight Trends: Address educational scientific gaps identified through the gathering of feedback from multiple field sources, compile and summarize to provide relevant insights. Communicate trends to the broader therapeutic team.
• Translating integrated brand plan into medical tactics and core communication topics: Responsible for contributing to the design of a strategically aligned tactical plan, as appropriate for on market products, and pipeline products including new indications/disease states. Develops non-promotional field/affiliate resources and ensures communications are supported by medical communication standards, pharmacovigilance standards, SOP’s and all other quality and compliance standards in Medical Affairs.
• Providing input into externally facing materials for use (i.e. Congress Booth, Ad Boards, Med Ed) with HCP or EE interactions (Payer, Patients, Prescribers, and Providers); educational initiatives (medical education, data, guidelines, and value proposition)
• Leading congress strategy and execution, including but not limited to cross-TA coordination, activity oversight, prioritization, coverage and summarization of scientific sessions of interest, and coordination with the field team.
• Identification, design and implementation of focused and impactful internal training programs: aiming to shape scientific understanding and medical practice (e.g. for Sales Representatives, MSLs, MOSLs, Affiliates)
• Promotional Material Review: Responsible for performing the accurate and detailed medical review 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.
• Active contribution to medical and brand functional planning including: medical education, EE engagements; and provides strategic medical input into core brand/product strategies. Works with TA Lead to ensure external communication strategies and tactics align with both TA and Commercial Strategies.

• Scientific degree; advanced degree (e.g., MS, PhD, MD/DO, PharmD, NP, MSN) preferred.
• 3-5 years of clinical, scientific/research, or industry related experience or equivalent required demonstrating strong leadership competencies and proven team-building skills with ability to lead in a global matrixed environment. Substantial understanding of relevant therapeutic area required.
• Experience in Parkinson’s and/or Movement Disorders is preferred.
• Good understanding of legal and regulatory guidelines (e.g. knowledge of OPDP promotional regulations, CDER/CBER regulations as they relate to drug approvals).
• Good understanding of Good Clinical Practices, ICH guidelines, PhRMA code, FDA CFR, ISO, clinical research ethics, HIPAA and patient privacy laws, EU Directive and other applicable local regulations
• Good understanding of Medical Affairs principles, study design and publications.
• Knowledge of clinical trial methodology, regulatory requirements governing clinical trials and experience in the design of protocols preferred.
• Interactions normally require the ability to gain cooperation of others, conduct presentations of technical information concerning specific projects and schedules, etc.
• Ability to interact externally and internally to support global business strategy. Ability to work effectively with different cross functional groups and have strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Able to 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.
• Ability to work effectively in a team/matrix environment. Ability to influence others without direct reporting relationships.

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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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