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Scientific Director / Medical Director, Pipeline Medical Strategy – Psychiatry

AbbVie
Florham Park, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 22 Dec 2025

About the role

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 XFacebookInstagramYouTubeLinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

The Scientific/Medical Director, Pipeline Medical Strategy - Psychiatry is a highly strategic scientific expert with deep expertise across clinical, drug development, and medical strategy who can act as an influential leader within the R&D organization to co-steward assets on cross-functional asset team for assigned asset(s).

This position is accountable to lead the development and execution of medical strategy and tactics to secure insights, develop scientific value, advance pipeline assets, and provide strategic medical input to cross-functional partners. Responsible for core medical affairs activities including: HCP and stakeholder interactions (prescribers/providers, KOL development, patient groups, payers), insight capture (advisory boards, real-world data analysis), generation and interpretation of clinical and scientific data, and educational initiatives (medical education, data, value proposition). Accountable for key medical affairs deliverables for assigned assets including comprehensive gap assessment, scientific communications platforms, scientific narratives, integrated evidence plans, and medical strategic plans.

This position can be based from our Mettawa, IL or Florham Park, NJ or Cambridge, MA locations.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop and oversee execution of medical affairs strategies and tactics
  • Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of medical affairs strategies with overall business objectives.
  • Provide medical and scientific support to internal and external stakeholders, including key opinion leaders, clinicians, payers, and patients.
  • Build and maintain relationships with external stakeholders, inclu

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