AbbVie

Senior Medical Director- Early Development Oncology

AbbVie$180K — $220K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • MD/DO with 2+ years of internal medicine residency and patient management experience; PhD or Clinical Pharmacology fellowship preferred.
  • 2-5 years of Pharmacovigilance/Clinical Development experience in the pharmaceutical industry.
  • Oncology experience is strongly preferred for the role.
  • Ability to analyze and guide the analysis of clinical data and epidemiological information effectively.
  • Skilled in presenting recommendations and opinions in group settings, internally and externally.
  • Experience writing, reviewing, and providing input on technical documents.
  • Proven ability to lead and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct safety surveillance for pharmaceutical, biological, and drug-device combined products.
  • Lead strategy for pharmacovigilance documents, including medical safety assessments and risk management plans.
  • Apply regulatory guidance for safety surveillance and authorship of pharmacovigilance documents.
  • Analyze and interpret aggregate safety data, communicating findings to cross-functional teams and executive leadership.
  • Write, review, and independently provide input on technical documents as needed.
  • Oversee implementation of risk management strategies for assigned products.
  • Engage, inspire, and mentor team members while fostering a collaborative environment.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick leave.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance available.
  • 401(k) plan for eligible employees.
  • Participation in long-term incentive programs offered.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Job Description

The Product Safety Team (PST) lead for late stage oncology products, under the direction of the Group Lead and TA Head will be actively and closely collaborating with the development medical lead, setting the strategy for the oncology programs. PST lead will be responsible to one or more products and will ensuring safety through the product lifecycle (e.g. surveillance, signal detection, validation and assessment, risks assessment and mitigations strategies, tox management, etc...) together with the other members of the safety team (safety scientists, safety architects, safety PM, and other cross functional colleagues). The PST lead will also closely collaborate with a PK and toxicology leads, regulatory and clinical development leads as well as medical affairs colleagues to help guide dose selection and regimen, inclusion/exclusion criteria and safety monitoring for first for clinical trials as well as PMOS.

PST lead will be interpreting regulations related to pharmacovigilance supporting all patient safety activities, and will be leading the safety components of pre-NDA and NDA/sNDA submissions, regulatory responses, label and label updates, RMPs.

Responsibilities:
  • Understanding and application of the pharmacology, chemistry and non-clinical toxicology to effectively conduct safety surveillance
  • Responsible for safety surveillance for pharmaceutical / biological / drug -device combined products
  • Lead and set the strategy for key pharmacovigilance documents, including but not limited to, medical safety assessments, regulatory responses and risk management plans, NDA/sNDA submission - safety component
  • Apply current regulatory guidance as appropriate for safety surveillance and authorship of PV documents
  • Analyze and interpret aggregate safety data and communicate these analysis and interpretation to cross-functional teams, executive leadership and externally, as needed
  • Effectively write, review and provide input on technical documents independently
  • Oversight and responsibility for leading the strategy for periodic reports (DSURs, PSURs, PADERs etc.)
  • Responsible for implementing risk management strategies for assigned products
  • Proactively engaging, inspiring, coaching and mentoring team and colleagues
  • Opportunities to co-author publications and participate in initiatives to continue developing and growing as a safety leader
  • Strong team player, able to adapt and work in a fast pace environment
  • Significant Work Activities -Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)


Qualifications
  • MD / DO with 2+ years of internal medicine residency with patient management experience required; PhD or Clinical Pharmacology fellowship is preferred in addition to MD / DO, not required
  • 2-5 years of Pharmacovigilance / Clinical Development experience in the pharmaceutical industry.
  • Oncology experience strongly preferred
  • Effectively analyze and guide analysis of clinical data and epidemiological information
  • Effectively present recommendations / opinions in group environment both internally and externally
  • Write, review and provide input on technical documents
  • Work collaboratively and lead cross-functional teams
  • Ability to lead cross-functional teams in a collaborative environment


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, 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 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.

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50,000 employees
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$288.5 billion
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Net Income
$4.6 billion
Founded
2013
5 Year Trend
+17%
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