Associate Director Therapeutic Neurotoxins

**Associate Director Therapeutic Neurotoxins - Global Medical Affairs**
- Based in either our Marlow (UK) or Chicago (USA) offices with a 3 2 flexible working model.
- Reporting into the Global Executive Director, Medical Affairs
- Highly competitive salary & benefits package

**Objective**:
The Global Medical Affairs (GMA) organisation provides patients, healthcare providers and payers globally with the practical and clinically relevant information and solutions they need to use AbbVie products safely and effectively, throughout the product lifecycle and the patient’s journey.

This role provides global medical/scientific strategic and operational/tactical support into core medical affairs activities such as: health-care professional/provider interactions, 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). Works cross functionally including with global marketing and commercial teams to provide strategic medical input into core brand (product) strategies, and to support medical/cross-functional activities.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Supports the Global Medical Affairs team and the wider cross functional global team in the development and communication of the global strategy (including supporting development of scientific platforms and performing gap assessments etc).
- Supports strong communication, collaboration and co-creation with area and country medical affairs teams
- Supports global promotional and non-promotional review activities for the therapeutic area (with a focus on supporting on-time review of promotional materials within the Veeva review platform)
- Supports and leads where relevant the execution of medical education medical affairs activities/tactics (including development of materials for MSLs, congress symposia and other globally led education activities).
- Supports the team in delivering tactics by participating and leading on the collaboration with cross-functional teams including with regulatory, legal, contracts, vendor management etc.
- Supports and leads where relevant the training of medical affairs and cross functional colleagues on the assigned therapeutic indications
- Supports and leads where relevant medical affairs data generation activities (including retrospective/prospective studies, post-hoc analyses, meta-analyses etc)
- Supports and leads where relevant the dissemination of medical/scientific information (including supporting abstract/manuscript development)
- Supports and leads where relevant the development of digital technologies to enhance medical education and/or the standard of care of patient treatment (e.g. wearables, Apps, virtual reality etc)
- Supports and leads where relevant congress activities for Globally relevant congresses

**Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience**
- Medical (M.D.) degree or advanced degree (PhD, PharmD) required
- Established clinical trial or medical affairs experience in the pharmaceutical industry or academia.
- Ability to interact externally and internally to support global strategy and activities.
- Knowledge of clinical trial methodology, regulatory requirements governing clinical trials and experience in development strategy and the design of protocols is desirable.
- Experience or expert knowledge with botulinum toxins and/or spasticity and movement disorders is preferred
- Proven ability to run medical affairs activities independently with little supervision