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About the role
Joining AbbVie means you will be part of a team of outstanding professionals dedicated to making a remarkable impact on patients' lives. At AbbVie, we conduct ground-breaking science on a global scale every day. AbbVie Canada is one of the Best Workplaces in Canada.
When choosing your career path, choose to be remarkable.
AbbVie’s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines 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, vision care, virology, women’s health , and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.
We have a new opportunity for a Pipeline Medical Science Liaison (MSL) to join our Medical Affairs team. In this exciting career opportunity, you will develop and nurture relationships, as well as advance our scientific credibility with established and emerging external experts (EEs). Our MSLs respond to requests by providing key scientific/medical information to external experts and internal stakeholders. This role will be based in Ontario or Quebec covering regions across Canada based on sites involved in pipeline clinical trials, reporting to the Medical Advisor, Dermatology Pipeline.
The ideal candidate can be based in Ontario or Quebec
Key Responsibilities:
• Ensure a strong medical and scientific presence for AbbVie at investigational sites and at key scientific centers, by facilitating clinical research of phases 1 to 3 interventional trials with our medications, while supporting requests for medical and scientific information on products or areas of therapeutic interest to AbbVie.
• Establish and maintain a close working relationship with Site Management & Monitoring staff, and partner in the initiation and conduct of prioritized AbbVie-led clinical trials.
• Complete site engagements on time and according to the engagement plan of the clinical study.
• Provide scientific and technical leadership to ensure professional and trusted relationships with external experts / investigators.
• Deliver presentations on scientific matters in the therapeutic area (TA) of dermatology, and on AbbVie’s pipeline to investigators in sponsored interventional research.
• Identify opportunities for R&D collaborations with key institutions and key opinion leaders, while liaising with the medical operations teams to engage in further assessment.
• Help with medical and scientific field intelligence – for example, maintain a list of investigators/potential investigators within a specific disease area in dermatology, understand competitive research activities in active or planned study sites, generate insights from investigators on challenges and opportunities for AbbVie-sponsored clinical trials and communicate, where appropriate.
• Participate and follow-up on assigned clinical studies and medical projects initiated within dermatology TA.
Education/Experience Required:
• PhD, PharmD and MD is required.
• Relevant business experience with solid knowledge of the biotech/pharmaceutical industry.
• Previous experience as an MSL preferred.
• Relevant Dermatology background is considered an asset.
• Previous experience in a customer-facing role in the healthcare industry.
• Experience in the presentation and/or interpretation of scientific or clinical research publications.
• Knowledge of scientific methods applied to clinical research and the current legislative/regulatory controls.
• Keen interest in developing and maintaining expert knowledge for assigned therapeutic area/product and medical research in general.
• Ability to comprehensively learn new subject areas and work within new clinical en
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