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Senior Scientific Director, Eye Care Clinical Development

AbbVie
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 30 Jan 2026

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


Leads the direction, planning, and interpretation of clinical trials or research activities of one or more clinical development programs. Participates in and may lead cross-functional teams to generate, deliver and disseminate high-quality clinical data supporting overall product scientific and business strategy.

Responsibilities:

•Leads and demonstrates ownership of the interpretation and internal/external data dissemination of multiple clinical development and exploratory programs in eye care development, based on strong medical and scientific principles, knowledge of compliance and regulatory requirements, AbbVie’s customers, markets, business operations and emerging issues.  Oversees project-related education of investigators, site personnel and AbbVie study staff.

•Leads all medical writing and scientific communications at the AbbVie Eye Care Research Center including, but not limited to protocols, procedure manuals, regulatory/ethics committee submissions, clinical study reports, memos, abstracts, and manuscripts,

•Has responsibility for leading data interpretation, monitoring overall study integrity and review, interpretation and communication of accumulating data pertaining to safety and efficacy of the molecule.

•Primary responsibility for and ownership of, analysis, interpretation and reporting of scientific content of protocols, Investigator Brochures, Clinical Study reports, regulatory submissions and responses and other program documents.

•May oversee the work of Medical and/or Scientific Directors and of Clinical Scientists working on the same or related programs.

•Serves as an in-house clinical expert for internal and external scientific communications, coordinating and

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