Scientific Director, Medical Affairs - Global Dermatology

Overview

Abb Vie'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 Abb Vie, please visit us at  Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, You Tube, Linked In and Tik Tok.

The Medical Affairs organization provides patients, healthcare providers, and payers everywhere with the practical and clinically relevant information and solutions they need to use Abb Vie products safely and effectively, throughout the product lifecycle and the patient s journey.

Provides specialist medical and scientific input into core strategic and operational medical affairs activities for Abb Vie s global Dermatology portfolio such as: health-care professional and provider interactions; generation of clinical and scientific data (enhancing therapeutic benefit and value); educational initiatives (medical education, scientific communications, and value proposition). Works closely with commercial teams to provide strategic medical input into core brand (product) strategies, and to support medical affairs, marketing activities (promotional material generation and product launches) and market access.

Reporting into a Therapeutic Area Lead for Dermatology New Indications, the Scientific Director works closely with research and development, commercial, and affiliate teams to evolve core medical, brand (product), and value and access strategies to support our evolving therapeutic area needs.

• Initiates medical affairs activities, generation and dissemination of data supporting the overall scientific strategy.
• Responsible from Global Medical Affairs for the design, analysis, interpretation, and reporting of scientific content of protocols, Investigator Brochures, Clinical Study Reports and regulatory submissions and responses.
• Oversees the conduct of clinical trials and is medically and scientifically accountable for resolution of safety (AE s & SAE s) issues, interpretation of statistical analyses for clinical significance, PI selection, scientific documents reporting safety monitoring and other scientific reports submitted to the regulatory authorities
• Participation in design and execution of clinical trial safety, product safety and risk management plans.
• Has overall responsibility for oversight of clinical studies, monitoring overall study integrity and review, interpretation and communication of accumulating data pertaining to safety and efficacy of the molecule. Along with Clinical Operations, is responsible for oversight of study enrollment and overall timelines for key deliverables.
• 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.
• 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.
• Provide scientific/medical education to investigators, clinical monitors, and Global Project Team members 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 therapeutic area resource.
• Ensures budgets, timelines, compliance requirements are factored into programs  scientific activities.

• Advanced Degree PhD or Pharm
  
  D. Additional post doctorate experience highly preferred.
• Typically, 10-15 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry or equivalent; substantial understanding of relevant therapeutic area required.
• 7-10 years of experience in…