Senior Clinical Pharmacologist - Neuroscience (On-Site, IL Based)

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. 

Purpose:

Conceive and execute novel scientific research or development in Clinical Pharmacology that achieves projects and Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics (CPPM) goals. Generate new PK/PD proposals and lead those efforts. Investigate, identify, develop, and optimize new methods and techniques in PK/PD field. Act as a lead PK scientist in his/her area of expertise and critically evaluate relevant Clinical Pharmacology, PK/PD and regulatory advances and integrate this knowledge into research or development programs.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to clinical development by supporting Phase 1-4 studies including study design, and clinical pharmacology strategy.
• Author regulatory documents including protocols, study reports, population PK reports, exposure-response analyses reports, relevant section of investigator brochures, common technical documents, white papers, and other similar documents.
• Conduct data analyses including non-compartmental analyses, modeling and simulation, literature data analyses.
• Participate and present at various departmental and cross functional teams such as study teams, clinical pharmacology and biopharmaceutics, clinical strategy team, Clinical Pharmacology leadership team, Journal club.
• Collaborate with scientific support from other Clinical Pharmacology functional groups to provide a unified clinical pharmacology position to clinical, CMC and regulatory teams.
• Author scientific publications and present at scientific conferences.

*This position will be required to sit on-site 3 days / week*

Qualifications:

• PhD with 0 years of experience, or Pharm D with 2+ years of experience in a relevant field, Master’s Degree or equivalent education and typically 8+ years of experience, Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent education and typically 10+ years of experience; (*relevant field includes experience with PK, PBPK, PK-PD, Pharmacometrics or systems pharmacology, Drug metabolism/Transporters)
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to interact externally and internally and perform in a team setting
• Demonstrates scientific acumen and has technical skills to perform the role
• Key Leadership Competencies:
  • Persistent and resilient finds the way to move good ideas forward
  • Uses mistakes, failure and reflection as vehicles for learning and improvement
  • Delivers business results while also positioning AbbVie for long-term success
  • Connects unrelated concepts, generates original or unique ideas
  • Influences colleagues to achieve cross-functional alignment

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

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• 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, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​

  
  

• 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​

  
  

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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. 

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