Medical Science Liaison, Oncology

AbbVie

  • Mumbai, Maharashtra
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 17 days ago
Company DescriptionAbbVie'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 . Follow @abbvie on , , , , and .Job DescriptionMedical Science Liaison, OncologyDevelops and maintains professional relationships with internal and external customers to provide comprehensive medical and scientific support to Abbvie initiatives in assigned therapeutic areas.Executes against the Medical Affairs plan for India. Provides scientific education and training initiatives across Abbvie Oncology portfolio. Plans and leads scientific communication with key therapy leaders 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.Key Responsibilities AreaAs an internal medical / technical / scientific resource, leads medical affairs objectives in the affiliate country. The role requires competency in practical aspects of patient care, and the ability to use medical and scientific information to facilitate engagement of physicians and others in the clinical and basic scientific issues relevant to Abbvie's products.Responsible for maintaining annual expenses within assigned budget parameters.Responsible for accurate and timely documentation of medical lead activities.The employee must conduct their work activities in compliance with all Abbvie internal requirements and with all applicable regulatory requirements. Abbvie internal requirements include compliance with ethics, environmental health and safety, financial, human resources, and general business policies, requirements and objectives.Identify, develop and maintain professional relationships with thought leaders, academic centers and researchers in assigned areas of therapeutic interest to ensure access to current medical and scientific information on Abbvie products.Work closely with the Commercial leaders for business planning , Therapeutic leads & Dir, Medical Affairs to set priorities, and activities.Upon request, present data on Abbvie products to healthcare professionals including physicians, academic institutions, researchers, and other health care professionals.Support research initiatives as requested by Abbvie R&D, Clinical Operations, and Medical Affairs Departments.Serve as internal medical and scientific resource to assigned Abbvie therapeutic areas for development of disease-state and product communications and materials that are medically accurate, balanced, and consistent with regulatory guidelines.Support Round Table and Advisory Board sessions to ensure accuracy of scientific and clinical data.Conducts on-going training to medical affairs, field sales and other internal personnel as required.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. (eg PV, HEOR etc)QualificationsQualificationsRequirementsMinimum 2-3 years post-qualification work experience in Medical affairs function.Experience working within the pharmaceutical industry or within clinical research is preferredExperience of working collaboratively and cross-functionally in a matrix structure, supporting multiple stakeholdersDemonstrated ability to learn quickly and convey clinical and non-clinical technical information effectively to individuals with varying degrees of scientific acumen.Demonstrated strong presentation and teaching skills with ability to effectively share information with othersDemonstrated ability to develop and maintain strong relationships; to lead & engageExperience applying analytical skills, to critically evaluate and effectively communicate key clinical dataExperience working with technology, including systems such as Microsoft Office.EducationMD;MBBSEqual Employment Opportunity
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