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Medical Director, Medical Affairs - Lung Cancer

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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 XFacebookInstagramYouTubeLinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

*Must be willing to come onsite 3 days per week in Mettawa, IL. 

 

The Medical Director, Medical Affairs serves as a strategic medical and scientific expert within the organization, responsible for shaping and executing medical affairs strategies that drive therapeutic value and scientific leadership. This role provides medical expertise across key medical affairs activities, including healthcare professional engagement, evidence generation (clinical and real-world), scientific communication, medical education, and support of safe and appropriate product use. The Medical Director partners closely with cross-functional teams — including Commercial, Market Access, Regulatory, Safety, and Clinical Development — to support the product lifecycle, from pre-launch through post-marketing.

 

Responsibilities:

· Provide strategic medical and scientific leadership for the assigned therapeutic area/product(s), supporting the development and execution of Medical Affairs plans.

· Serve as the medical lead for cross-functional product teams, ensuring medical strategy alignment with brand objectives and unmet patient needs.

· Responsible for Medical affairs to input to the design, analysis, interpretation, and reporting of scientific content of protocols, Investigator Brochures, Clinical Study Reports and regulatory submissions and responses.

· Drive medical evidence generation strategies, including real-world evidence (RWE), observational research, investigator-initiated studies (IIS), and medical affairs-sponsored studies aligned to strategic priorities.

· Support the dissemination of scientific data through publications, congress presentations, advisory boards, and medical education programs.

· Provide medical review and approval of promotional and non-promotional materials, ensuring scientific accuracy, fair balance, and compliance with regulatory and ethical standards.

· Collaborate with Regulatory Affairs, Legal, Compliance, and Pharmacovigilance teams to ensure adherence to internal processes, policies, and external regulations.

· Participation in design and execution of clinical trial safety, product safety and risk management plans.

· May assist 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 affiliate/area/global medical affairs sponsored or supported clinical research activities.

· Partner with Commercial, Market Access, Clinical Operations, and Safety teams to provide medical insights and support product development, launch readiness, and post-market activities.

· Provide medical input into market access and health economics & outcomes research (HEOR) strategies, including value propositions and payer engagement.

· May interact with 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. Serves as the scientific team interface for key regulatory discussions.

· Serve as a therapeutic area expert and resource for internal stakeholders; provide training to medical science liaisons (MSLs), commercial teams, and cross-functional partners.

· Ensures budgets, timelines, compliance requirements are factored into programs' scientific activities.

Qualifications

· Medical Doctorate (M.D.) degree or equivalent (D.O. or non-US equivalent of M.D). Relevant therapeutic specialty in an academic or hospital environment preferred. Completion of residency and/or fellowship is preferred.

· In depth understanding of the Lung Cancer landscape is a strong preference.

· Minimum of 2 years of medical affairs experience in the pharmaceutical industry or academia or equivalent. 5+ years of experience is preferred.

· Ability to translate complex scientific information into clear, concise, and impactful medical and strategic guidance is preferred.

· Knowledge of clinical trial methodology, data analysis and interpretation, regulatory requirements governing clinical trials and experience in development strategy and the design of protocols.

· Proven leadership skills in a cross-functional global team environment

· Ability to interact externally and internally to support global business strategy.

· Must possess excellent oral and written English communication skills.

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 short-term incentive programs. ​

  • This job is eligible to participate in our long-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 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. 

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion.  It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.

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AbbVie’s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines 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: i...

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