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
This position is responsible for:
- Current and upcoming Medical portfolios and their associate indications.
- A medical representative for compliance (in- & out-office), for media regarding medical
- Own and drive Key Opinion Leaders (KOL) engagement
- Lead scientific exchange with HCPs
- Lead brand strategy, budget management, development of tactical planning in collaboration with the brand team in the marketing department
- Contribute to the total competency of the Medical Affairs, not limited to technical aspects.
Position Overview
- Develops and maintains professional relationships with internal and external customers to provide comprehensive medical and scientific support to initiatives in assigned therapeutic areas.
- Executes against the Medical Affairs plan for India.
- Provides scientific education and training initiatives across
- Performs field visits with key physicians and stakeholders, organizing advisory board meetings, facilitating clinical trials, and serving as the medical resource for both external and internal stakeholders.
- This position is a non-promotional role. The primary focus is providing Healthcare Professionals with fair and balanced scientific information.
- Facilitates information, education, and research activities for physicians and ancillary healthcare professionals regarding current and future therapies in development or commercialized by Abbvie. Works closely with other Abbvie personnel to ensure information, education, and research needs of healthcare professionals are met and to ensure scientific and technical training needs of commercial organizations are identified and met.
- A high level of travel/field time is to be expected within this position (approximately 60% of time spent outside the office). This role will also serve as the local representative of the Global Medical Office associated functions.
Qualifications
Educational Qualifications:
- Strong preference for Medical degree (MD , MBBS)
Experience:
- Minimum of 2 – 7 years of medical affairs experience in the pharmaceutical industry, with specialized therapeutic areas
- Medical affairs experience in various activities such as advisory board management, publication, and other scientific exchange
- Good understanding of the domestic market
- Experience in establishing strong influential relationships with KOLs
- Good understanding of multinational culture and ways of working
- Experience in working collaboratively and cross-functionally in a matrix structure, supporting multiple stakeholders
Essential Competencies
- Able to Influence & persuade at all levels within the organization (including the Commercial team) as well as with external customers (KOLs, HCPs, etc.)
- Thinking strategically and being able to develop and execute plans at the country level
- Specifically, able to understand in-depth knowledge and clinical aspects of the medical
- Excellent presentation skills, strong interpersonal skills
- Able to engage HCPs and communicate effectively with them as well as the medical institution and/or association
- Comply to all business ethic and all applicable regulations to secure personal credibility and integrity as well as Abbvie
- Demonstrated ability to learn quickly and convey clinical and non-clinical technical information effectively to individuals with varying degrees of scientific acumen.
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.
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