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Scientific Director / Medical Director, Medical Affairs - Oncology

AbbVie
Mettawa, IL, United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 4 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 Medical Affairs organization provides patients, healthcare providers, and payers everywhere with the practical and clinically relevant information and solutions they need to use AbbVie products safely and effectively, throughout the product lifecycle and the patient’s journey.

The Scientific / Medical Director, Medical Affairs provides specialist medical and scientific input into core strategic and operational medical affairs activities for AbbVie’s Oncology portfolio such as: health-care professional and provider interactions; generation of clinical and scientific data (enhancing therapeutic benefit and value); educational initiatives, scientific communications, value propositioning, and safeguarding patient safety (risk minimization activities and safety surveillance activities).

Reporting to a Therapeutic Area Lead for Hematology, the Scientific / Medical Director works closely with commercial and research and development teams to provide critical medical input into evolving core medical, brand (product), and value and access strategies to support our evolving on-market and therapeutic area needs.

This position is ideally based at our Mettawa, IL location following a hybrid schedule of 3 days/week on-site. Hybrid schedules at other AbbVie sites may be considered.

Responsibilities

  1. Initiates medical affairs activities, generation and dissemination of data supporting the therapeutic area scientific strategy.
  2. Responsible from Medical Affairs for the design, analysis, interpretation, and reporting of scientific content of protocols, Investigator Brochures, Clinical Study Reports and regulatory submissions and responses.
  3. Has overall responsibility for oversight of

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