Sr. Manager, Medical Affairs

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.

• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution

• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position, Sr. Medical Affairs Manager, works out of our Carlsbad, CA location in the Cardiometabolic and Informatics (CMI) Team part of the ARDx Business Unit.

We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision-making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.

What You’ll Work On

We are looking for a real leader, who will be able to build peer-to-peer relationships with KOLs and Health Authorities stakeholders as well as to manage real-world data (RWD) generation studies and have a strategic vision of the future for diagnostics and tests.

As a Sr. Medical Affairs Manager, you will provide daily business operations support to Medical Affairs activities to support Abbott Rapid Diagnostics (RMDx)/Cardiometabolic and Informatics (CMI) products.  Some of the main objectives (but not limited to) of the role are as follows:

 

• Develop and execute strategic activities for medical affairs.

• Collaborate with key experts to enhance the clinical utility of Point Of Care testing (POCT) through research, real-world data generation, advisory boards, and healthcare provider education.

• Publish key studies to strengthen Abbott's scientific presence.

• Provide medical and scientific information to support medical opinions and health hazard assessments for on-market product issues.

• Contribute to the development and implementation of key marketing strategies.

• Respond promptly to healthcare providers' requests for scientific and medical information.

• Oversee on-market product performance, including monitoring product safety (e.g., complaints, MDRs), reporting, evaluation, health hazard evaluations, and medical risk management.

• Review and evaluate product performance data and trends.

• Engage with professional associations, expert committees, payers, and patient advocacy groups to influence practice and promote guidelines supporting Rapid Diagnostics Cardiometabolic testing.

• Represent medical affairs at conferences, expert group meetings, sales meetings, and interactions with physicians and hospitals.

• Support daily business operations for medical affairs activities related to product development.

• Assist with medical affairs activities for on-market product issues.

• Provide direction and oversight for the division's medical oversight and product performance functions, including safety monitoring and health hazard evaluations in clinical study design.

• Assist Medical Directors in preparing medical platform documents and opinions to support product development.

• Offer expert opinions on laboratory operations, regulations, workflow, and needs.

• Provide references and information to support medical opinions and health