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Scientific Director, Medical Affairs - Oncology

AbbVie
Mettawa, IL, United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 21 Aug 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 Director, Medical Affairs provides medical and scientific strategic and operational input into core hematology medical affairs activities such as: health-care professional and provider interactions (Payers, Patients, Prescribers, and Providers); generation of clinical and scientific data (enhancing therapeutic benefit and value); educational initiatives (medical education, data, guidelines, and value proposition); safeguarding patient safety (risk minimization activities and safety surveillance activities). Works closely with commercial teams to provide strategic medical input into core brand (product) strategies, and to support medical and marketing activities (promotional material generation and product launches) and market access. Collaborates with Clinical Development on Medical Affairs support of priority trials.

This position is ideally based at our headquarters just outside of Chicago, IL. Remote candidates will also be considered.

Responsibilities

  1. Responsible for the development of brand strategies and medical functional planning.
  2. Leads and supports Medical Affairs initiatives for the target indication.
  3. Develops and executes Medical Affairs support of priority clinical development trials.
  4. Contributes to the development of and leads the execution of the Medical Education / Advisory Board & EE Engagement Plan generation in line with TA plan. Lead the individual (Global) Conference planning and execution.
  5. Generates clinical and scientific data per evidence gap assessment.
  6. Responsible for managing budget for assigned projects.
  7. Aligns Medical education and scientific initiatives with Sci Comm Platform. Informs Investigator

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