Medical Advisor - Eye Care

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. 

Purpose:

Provides specialist medical/scientific strategic and operational input into core medical affairs activities such as: healthcare professional/provider interactions (including Payers, Patients, Prescribers, and Providers); generation of clinical and scientific data (enhancing therapeutic benefit and value); educational initiatives and tactics (medical education and training, data, guidelines and value proposition); safeguarding patient safety (risk minimization activities / safety surveillance activities). Works closely with sales, marketing and commercial teams to provide strategic medical input into core brand (product) strategies, and to support medical/marketing activities (promotional and non-promotional material generation/product launches) and market access.                       

Responsibilities:

-In cooperation with affiliate / Area Medical teams, Marketing, RA, Clinical and other functional areas, provides leadership, oversight and support for assigned products/projects.

-Provide scientific/medical education (including lectures) and scientific presence in key academic Ophthalmology centers by facilitation of educational initiatives with focus on Tier 1, 2, thought leaders, ophthalmology residents and fellows to ensure professional and credible relationships while accomplishing with AbbVie KPIs and metrics.

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

-Accountable of internal processes of medical events initiation and follow-up, ensuring adherence to compliance guidelines.

-Responsible for understanding the local regulatory requirements related to local approval of scientific materials, serves as the scientific team interface for key regulatory discussions.

-Support internal teams such as sales, training and marketing and members of the Affiliate Brand Team to develop their scientific and technical expertise through the delivery of scientific update presentations, training support and active participation to share insights frequently and active involvement in brand and functional plans of the assigned area.

-Serve as a point of contact within the Medical Affairs team for thought leaders and external experts to satisfy their needs for scientific knowledge in a therapeutic area and, when requested, relevant AbbVie medicines, to support their safe, effective and appropriate use.

-Participate in the selection process to identify appropriately qualified thought leaders the Company would wish to engage in collaborative efforts – such as potential research collaborations, or educational and advisory roles (Advisory Boards, Congresses, Symposia, etc.); while ensuring a high level of scientific or educational integrity in these collaborative efforts.  

-Facilitate medical and scientific field intelligence – for example, competitor research and medical strategies, educational activities – and communicate, where appropriate, within the Company.

-Attend relevant scientific meetings and Conferences. Collaborate with internal stakeholders to develop summaries of key data and other scientifically relevant information to inform AbbVie strategic priorities and initiatives.

-Responsible for understanding the regulatory requirements related to clinical studies and global drug development and accountable for complying with those requirements. Serves as the scientific team interface for key regulatory discussions.

-Initiate research projects and drive them to completion, resulting in high quality publications.

-May act as medical/scientific leader for projects within an area or across several areas; assists with the scientific review, development, approval, execution and communication of affiliate/area/global medical affairs sponsored or supported clinical research activities.

-May lead cross functional sub teams responsible for discrete projects within the therapeutic area (individual publications or study collaborations).

Medical doctorate (MD) degree or equivalent with relevant therapeutic specialty in an academic or hospital environment. Completion of ophthalmology and/or ophthalmology fellowship is preferred.

Minimum of 2 years of medical affairs or medical scientific liaison experience in the pharmaceutical industry with regulatory, medical events experience in developing and maintaining expert knowledge activities. 3+ years of experience is preferred. Proven leadership skills in a cross-functional team environment. Veeva activities platform report of field activities and material approvals experienced desirable

Excellent written and spoken communication and presentation skills, with a demonstrated ability to develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with thought leaders, physicians and other healthcare decision makers.

Ability to interact externally and internally to support global business strategy. Must possess excellent oral and written English communication skills.

This function is 50% field based with HCPs interactions report, travel to main cities each 2 or 3 months according to needs and scheduled travel. 50% is based in office developing medical affairs functions. This is subject to local needs, and the discretion of the affiliate medical director.

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