Medical Lead, Immunology

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 Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn. 

Job Description

• Reporting to the Head of Medical, Immunology.
• Based in Maidenhead with 3/2 flexible working offered.
• Comprehensive salary, bonus and benefits package.

Role overview:

The Medical Lead, Immunology will represent the affiliate’s medical/scientific voice of expertise for assigned products (licensed and pipeline assets) and relevant therapeutic areas. You will provide specialist medical/scientific strategic and operational input into core medical affairs activities for the Affiliate Medical Department such as: health-care professional/provider interactions (Payers, Patients, Prescribers, 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 / safety surveillance activities). 

This role works closely with sales, marketing and commercial teams to provide strategic medical input into core brand (product) strategies, and to support medical/marketing activities (promotional material generation/product launches) and market access under the overall direction of the UK Country Medical Director.

The Medical Lead will provide scientific and technical support for assigned products; deliver scientific presentations; develop and maintain professional and credible relationships with key opinion leaders; actively participate in relevant Brand Teams and helps develop medical affairs strategies for assigned products; develop innovative research concepts for clinical data generation; provide relevant scientific and technical training.

In this role you will ensure that the medical affairs role is fully integrated to support the strategy and execution of affiliate business, while being functionally independent. If relevant, provide leadership, strategic direction and mentorship to direct reports, as appropriate, and fulfil line management responsibilities accordingly.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain in depth knowledge for assigned product(s) / relevant therapeutic area(s) through attendance / participation at key internal meetings/training sessions, relevant congresses, and seminars and by regular self-study of the national/international literature.
• Provide expert medical/scientific advice for assigned products and related therapeutic areas, including responding to requests for scientific/technical information; contribute to the development and medical and scientific accuracy of core dossiers generated by the medical and market access department (i.e. pricing and reimbursement dossiers, HEOR dossiers, medical information packs, clinical expert reviews etc.).
• Establish and maintain professional and credible relationships with key thought leaders / external experts and academic centres; relevant scientific societies; this will involve participating in scientific congresses, coordinating advisory boards, round-table meetings, discussion fora etc.
• Deliver scientific presentations and medical education programs to healthcare professionals individually or in groups (meetings, clinical sessions, etc.), where appropriate.
• Screen relevant literature and other information from relevant scientific societies meetings and conferences and develop summaries of key messages for use within the Company (e.g. key areas of scientific/company interest, new trends in diagnosis, monitoring and treatments in the therapeutic area, etc.)
• Deliver training to sales forces and other departments; develop and update relevant training materials.
• Clinical Research Activities:
• Design and implement clinical research projects within defined standards and budgets (e.g. Phase IV, post marketing clinical activities such as registry/database projects, epidemiological surveys, and PMOS studies).
• Provide the required oversight to manage review, approval and conduct of IIS studies.
• Support the affiliate Clinical Research Department in the management of clinical studies, as appropriate (e.g. review new clinical study protocols, identifying potential investigators/sites, conducting feasibility surveys).
• Review and preparation of promotional material. Ensure the medical/scientific content is correct and fully compliant with AbbVie internal policies and guidelines.
• Provide medical/scientific input into marketing strategy and key commercial initiatives, as required. Monitor the environment for competitive intelligence (e.g. product strategies, studies, commercial messages, positioning, etc.) and communicate, where appropriate, within the Company.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable national laws and regulations, guidelines, codes of conduct, AbbVie policies and procedures and accepted standards of best practice.
• Ensures budgets, timelines, compliance requirements are factored into programs’ scientific activities
• Coach and lead employees in the related therapeutic area in medical affairs (MSLs Manager, Medical Reviewer(s) Medical Advisor(s) but must also be able to influence in a matrixed environment. Works mostly independently with limited guidance under the overall direction of the Immunology Head of Medical Affairs.

Qualifications

• Medical Degree or Bachelor’s degree in a scientific discipline or higher. 
• Experience of leading a medical affairs team.
• Experience working in a pharmaceutical industry and general knowledge on drug development and clinical research an advantage. 
• Expert knowledge in a relevant therapeutic specialty. Ability to interact externally and internally to support global business strategy.
• Keen interest in developing and maintaining expert knowledge for assigned therapeutic area/product and in medical research in general. 
• Excellent written and spoken communication and presentation skills. 
• Fluency in written and oral English is highly desirable in order to facilitate communications between the affiliate medical department, Regional and International Medical Affairs and other AbbVie functional staff. 
• High customer orientation.
• Strong commitment to compliance with the relevant rules and procedures, and to scientific quality and integrity.
• Collaborative, team-oriented approach, able to develop and support relationships across an organisation as well as with key external stakeholders and the healthcare community at large. 
• Experience being an active contributor to cross-functional teams and/or working in matrix organisations will be an advantage. Work independently with limited guidance/oversight. 
• Works broadly across functions to facilitate and support the affiliate’s medical and clinical activities as necessary. 
• Sound judgment, strong planning and organisational skills, and the ability to get things done. 
• Demonstrate strong sense of urgency.

Additional Information

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status. US & Puerto Rico only – to learn more, visit https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.html 

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