Lead Medical Director, Drug Safety & PV

Future Opportunities - Join Our Talent Pipeline for Medical Directors – Patient Safety

Thank you for considering a future opportunity with our company! We are not currently hiring for this specific role, but we would love to connect with talented individuals who are interested in potential future positions. By joining our talent pipeline, you will be the first to be notified when suitable opportunities arise.

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 and Linked In.

• Understanding and application of the pharmacology, chemistry and non-clinical toxicology to effectively conduct safety surveillance
• Responsible for safety surveillance for pharmaceutical / biological / drug device combined early oncology product and implementing risk management strategies for assigned product
• Lead, set the strategy in collaboration with the development medical lead of study protocols and informed consents. When appropriate write the key pharmacovigilance documents, including but not limited to, medical safety assessments, regulatory responses, aggregate reports.
• Apply current regulatory guidance as appropriate for safety surveillance and authorship of safety documents. Analyze, interpret, and summarize aggregate safety data and communicate these analysis and interpretation to cross‑functional teams and senior management
• Independently write, review, and provide input on technical documents. Oversight and responsibility for leading the strategy as well as writing, when applicable, the key sections for periodic reports (e.g. DSURs, PADERs and Safety sections of the IBs)
• Opportunities to co-author publications and participate in initiatives to continue developing and growing as a safety leader

• MD / DO with 2+ years of residency with patient management experience
• 2.5 - 8 years of Pharmacovigilance / Clinical Development experience in the pharmaceutical industry
• Effectively analyze and guide analysis of clinical data and epidemiological information
• Effectively present recommendations / opinions in group environment both internally and externally
• Write, review and provide input on technical documents
• Work collaboratively and lead cross‑functional teams

• 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.
  
  Salary: $35,000 - $172,500
• 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.

Abb Vie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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