Medical or Scientific Director, Rheumatology, International Medical Affairs

Company Description

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.

Job Description

The Medical or Scientific Director, Rheumatology provides medical and scientific strategic and operational input into core medical affairs activities including but not limited to: health-care professional and provider interactions; generation of clinical and scientific data (enhancing therapeutic benefit and value); internal and external educational initiatives (medical education, scientific communications, training, and value proposition) and safeguarding patient safety (risk minimization activities and safety surveillance activities).

• 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.
• Develops and maintains professional and credible relationships with key opinion leaders.

Responsibilities:

1. Leads and coordinates appropriate internal facing scientific and medical activities with internal stakeholders (i.e. commercial, clinical operations, discovery, statistics, regulatory etc) including but not limited to evidence gap workshops, scientific platform and narrative, external expert engagement mapping, medical education projects, and planning ahead of key scientific meetings/congresses aligned to the Medical Functional Plan
2. Provides scientific/medical education to investigators, clinical monitors, and 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.
3. Initiates medical affairs activities, generation and disse