at Abbott in Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
About Abbott Diagnostics
Diagnostic testing is a compass, providing information that helps in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of a range of health conditions.
Abbott’s life-changing tests and diagnostic tools give you accurate, timely information to better manage your health. We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.
Our location in Abbott Park, Illinois currently has an opportunity for a Area Cardiac and Pulmonary System Director – Americas.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
The Area Cardiac and Pulmonary System Director – Americas leads the Medical and Scientific Research team in the subspecality areas of Cardiology and Pulmonology with the goal of improving patient care through innovative medical and clinical research. This position generates and oversees subspecialty strategy and implementation of related medical and scientific research, engages with customers and key opinion leaders, collaborates on medical education, and advises on policy, clincial trial and product development as part of a cross functional team, ensuring that our medical and scientific research is aligned to the overall area strategy.
Core Job Responsibilities:
+ Provides strategic leadership to the Medical and Scientific System Research Team to drive innovation
+ Draws upon their therapeutic area expertise to develop and oversee medical and scientific research within their System areas to engage collaborators and clinicians, create impactful publications and develop a medical/scientific community of peers
+ Accountable for research scope, maintains system budget and completion of projects within budgetary timelines
+ Provide subject matter expertise to projects within their System, as well as acting as the subject matter expert in cross-functional teams, lending support as needed (for example, clinical studies, ad promo, marketing, commercial)
+ Develops, supports and/or guides educational symposiums, lectures, materials and engagements for the relevant Systems
+ Finds meaningful ways to impact patient care through guidelines, initiatives, cross-divisional activities and associated mechanisms
+ Creates pathways for medical and scientific insights via key opinion leader development, hosting engagement within activities such as medical advisory boards, medical and scientific conferences, consensus conferences, etc.
+ Creates opportunites and fosters relationships with the medical community, policymakers and key opinion leaders within the relevant Systems to support the engagment strategy globally
+ Interfaces with Marketing and Commercial teams regarding medical and scientific research as appropriate to support and align strategies
Leadership Activities:
+ Team oriented with the confidence, maturity and integrity to work effectively as a member of the medical affairs team
+ High personal integrity and ethics
+ Excellent communication/organization skills
+ Create a collaborative, innovative culture within their own individual team, and promote such behaviors across the organization
+ Promotes a work environment that supports team effectiveness. Provides feedback to team members on performance
+ Creates, develops and implements a strategic vision for the System within Area; determines priorities, defines what work should be accomplished, and decides how work should be accomplished then executes within budgetary and timing targets
+ Interface with other areas within the organization to provide expertise, create unified strategy, and drive innovation and excellence within medical affairs and the overall business
+ Prepare and present written and oral reports and other presentations to internal and external audiences, including senior management. Adjusts presentation style and content to suit the audience
Expertise and Problem-Solving Duties:
+ Understanding the medical and clinical utility of new innovative disease biomarkers within relevant System Areas
+ Identify and create research frameworks that develop new opportunities to improve patient care, either through outcome studies, biomarker discovery, or basic science research leading to new technologies
+ Aligning the various KOLs, researchers, physicians and key stakeholders to a common goal
+ Identify strategic iniatives and research, while understanding the resource requirements, cost, and time schedules, aligning multiple stakeholders and creating a robust research program
+ Understand the unique challenges faced by laboratories and clinicians within the relevant Systems to help empower solutions and drive innovation; bring medical and scientific insights back into the organization, leading to better product design and development, engagement with collaborators, or new opportunities for the business
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING
Required
+ MD or PhD is required.
+ 5+ years experience in industry or clinical practice
+ Has successfully participated within research teams and projects
+ Demonstrated evidence-based medical and clinical knowledge
Preferred
+ Demostrated communication and presentation skills adaptable to all levels of management
+ Extensive medical and clinical KOL network within the relevant Systems
WHAT WE OFFER
At Abbott, you can have a good job that can grow into a great career. We offer:
+ Training and career development , with onboarding programs for new employees and tuition assistance
+ Financial security through competitive compensation, incentives and retirement plans
+ Health care and well-being programs including medical, dental, vision, wellness and occupational health programs
+ Paid time off
+ 401(k) retirement savings with a generous company match
+ The stability of a company with a record of strong financial performance and history of being actively involved in local communities
Learn more about our benefits that add real value to your life to help you live fully: www.abbottbenefits.com (http://www.abbottbenefits.com/pages/candidate.aspx)
Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that provides the growth and strength to build your future. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.
Connect with us at www.abbott.com , on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal.
An Equal Opportunity Employer
Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.
We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.
To request accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email corpjat@abbott.com
