Therapeutic Area Lead - GASTRO (Medical Affairs People Manager)

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 X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Reporting to the Immunology Therapeutic Area Head, your main responsibilities as the Gastro Therapeutic Area Lead  will be as follows:

• Lead the Brand-aligned Medical team and ensure compliance to corporate requirements and processes on Medical activities.
• Drive Medical strategy for the Brand and integrate into Brand plan.
• Understand AbbVie's in-licensing opportunities with academic centres for early phase/discovery products.
• Supervise the initiation, conduct and analysis of the results of scientific programs and Clinical Education activities.
• Manage AbbVie's Medical team reporting into you: Medical Managers, MSL Leads and MSLs
• Develop consolidated budgets for Medical activities.
• Explore with other Affiliates opportunities for international collaborative studies.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years’ experience in the Pharmaceutical industry working in similar positions within immunology  therapeutic area, ideally within Inflammatory Boel Diseases.
• Academic and/or professional Scientific background.
• Experience working in a matrix organization.
• Previous experience managing teams is required, at least 5 years of people management experience.
• Working understanding of statistical research methods.
• Previous experience in product launches is a nice to have.
• Familiarity with GCP (good clinical practice) and (SOP) standard operation procedures.
• Previous experience within an in-field, stakeholder/customer facing role would be ideal.
• Concepts of Epidemiology and HEOR.
• Product/Indication Approval Processes.
• Publication Processes.
• Fluent in English.

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