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
The Medical Science Liaison (MSL) is a field-based scientific expert that strategically supports the scientific and business objectives of a designated therapeutic area across the product life cycle. MSLs are the primary communicators of AbbVie science within a specific geography with healthcare professionals. MSLs are the field scientific experts on given disease states and treatment options within a designated therapeutic area. They combine strong business acumen, clinical expertise, market awareness, and serve as a conduit of information to a cross-functional customer base internally within AbbVie. Based on therapeutic needs and product life cycles, teams may focus on certain responsibilities, including clinical development and pipeline support. This is the entry-level MSL position in which the individual contributor will learn and develop the capabilities and responsibilities of the role as defined by AbbVie Medical Affairs.
This role is considered remote but requires the employee to work within a reasonable distance from the primary cities.
Responsibilities:
- Develop, execute and maintain high impact territory plans, including HCP and Investigator engagement plans in alignment with therapeutic area medical and scientific objectives with a focus on quality.
- Identify, gain access to, and develop professional customer-centric relationships with external experts (EEs) in therapeutic areas within assigned geography.
- Deliver on territory plan objectives, meet assigned project deadlines, and achieve annual functional goals. Generate and document meaningful data point observations (DPOs).
- Practice core capabilities in segmentation, DPOs, and optimal resource utilization.
- Ensure compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and Procedures, including accurate and timely documentation as it relates to HCP interactions.
- Provide education relative to disease state, therapeutic landscape, and AbbVie products across the product lifecycle to healthcare providers and researchers.
- Continually educate self on market issues/trends, product knowledge, and new therapeutic areas of interest as it pertains to specific business responsibilities.
- Support research initiatives across development at the request of R&D to include site evaluation and identification, recruitment, investigator meetings, external expert identification, and external collaboration management.
- Create, maintain, and collaborate in relationships with cross-functional partnerships, including in-field commercial teams.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in the health sciences from an accredited university required. Advanced degree preferred in a relevant scientific discipline. Doctorate strongly preferred in a health science or clinical discipline. Significant clinical and/or industry experience in relevant therapeutic area may be accepted in lieu of education requirements.
- Greater than or equal to 2 years of clinical, scientific/research, or industry-related experience or equivalent preferred.
- The MSL must possess problem-solving and analytic skills to identify and translate specific territory and corporate needs into actionable objectives.
- Exhibit leadership attributes that align with company-wide initiatives.
- Ability to quickly learn and apply foundational skills in Scientific Storytelling, Identifying Mobilizers, Medical Challenger, and Active Listening.
- An essential requirement of the position is to meet health care industry representative (HCIR) credentialing requirements.
- Must be willing to travel up to 75% of the time.
The candidate must live in the territory or be willing to self-relocate within the territory. The majority of the territory includes (VA & NC).
Job grade, level, and title will be determined by the selected candidate’s credentials, education, and experience.
Additional Information
Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:
- The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location.
- We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees.
- This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.
- This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs.
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.
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.
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