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Scientific Director, Medical Affairs - Global Dermatology

AbbVie
Mettawa, IL, United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 4 Feb 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

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.

Provides specialist medical and scientific input into core strategic and operational medical affairs activities for AbbVie’s global Dermatology portfolio such as: health-care professional and provider interactions; generation of clinical and scientific data (enhancing therapeutic benefit and value); educational initiatives (medical education, scientific communications, and value proposition). 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.

Reporting into a Therapeutic Area Lead for Dermatology New Indications, the Scientific Director works closely with research and development, commercial, and affiliate teams to evolve core medical, brand (product), and value and access strategies to support our evolving therapeutic area needs.

 Responsibilities:

  • Initiates medical affairs activities, generation and dissemination of data supporting the overall scientific strategy.
  • Responsible from Global Medical Affairs for the design, analysis, interpretation, and reporting of scientific content of protocols, Investigator Brochures, Clinical Study Reports and regulatory submissions and responses.
  • Oversees the conduct of clinical trials and is medically and scientifically accountable for resolution of safety (AE’s & SAE’s)

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