Medical Science Liaison Oncology

Company Description

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.

• Represent Abb Vie Medical Affairs as subject matter expert in the assigned TA and territory, provide scientific and technical leadership to ensure professional and credible relationships with external experts /HCPs of strategic importance to Abb Vie.
• Serve as a point of contact within the Medical Affairs team for external experts within the assigned therapeutic area to satisfy their needs for scientific knowledge in a therapeutic area and, when requested, relevant Abb Vie medicines, to support their safe, effective and appropriate use.
• Develop and execute scientific interaction plans, contribute to cross‑functional account planning, as appropriate.
• Responsible for appropriate tiering and segmentation of external experts based on guidance from the IFT playbooks and appropriate documentation of HCP interactions and relevant insights in the CRS and related platforms and systems.
• Ensure a strong medical and scientific presence for Abb Vie in biologic therapy centers by facilitation of research and educational initiatives, while supporting requests for medical and scientific information on products or areas of therapeutic interest to Abb Vie.
• Support internal teams such as sales and marketing and members of the Affiliate Brand Team to develop their scientific and technical expertise through the delivery of scientific update presentations. Work collaboratively and cross‑functionally with other in‑field members while retaining functional independence.
• Assist in the initiation, oversight and follow up of assigned GMA studies and medical projects initiated within the therapeutic area for which the MSL carries responsibility (e.g. registry/database projects, epidemiological studies, post‑authorization studies (PMOS)).
• Support prioritized interventional studies run by Clinical Development Operations, with study initiation visits and act as subject matter expert as part of One R&D community. All such activities must comply with applicable local laws, guidelines, codes of practice, SOPs, and Abb Vie R&D SOPs.
• Act as the point of contact with external experts to facilitate investigator‑initiated study (IIS) ideas and requests for support to the local and global medical teams as appropriate.
• Attend relevant scientific meetings and conferences. Collaborate with internal stakeholders to develop summaries of key data and other scientifically relevant information to inform Abb Vie strategic priorities and initiatives.
• Upon request, assist physicians with requests for access to Abb Vie medicines on a named patient or compassionate use basis, subject to all applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
• Provide key thought leaders / external experts and internal medical and clinical teams with scientific and technical support for publications of scientific or medical interest.
• Ensure that all activities and interactions are conducted with due regard to all applicable local, global, and national laws, regulations, guidelines, codes of conduct, Company policies and accepted standards of best practice.

• Advanced degree (MD or Pharm
  
  D).
• Experience in the assigned TA is an advantage but not a basic requirement.
• Experience working in pharmaceutical industry with general knowledge on ways of working in the industry, drug development/clinical research, market access environment, local laws, and regulations.
• Solid knowledge of the pharmaceutical environment and the role of Medical Affairs to advance the medical and scientific objectives of a pharmaceutical company.
• Demonstrated expertise in the scientific methods applied to clinical research and current legislative/regulatory controls…