Scientific Director, Precision Medicine Immunology

at AbbVie in North Chicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Company Description

AbbVie’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 www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Job Description

The Precision Medicine Immunology group is hiring an experienced Precision Medicine Strategist with expertise in immunology who will be responsible for the development, planning, execution, and interpretation of precision medicine activities in support of the immunology clinical development portfolio at AbbVie

+ Lead the development and implementation of translational and biomarker strategic plans for one or more clinical programs. Responsibility may extend from early translational development activities to mature product life cycle strategies and back translational activities

+ Manage the design, conduct, interpretation, and reporting of biomarker data/activities in line with the development, regulatory, and commercial strategies

+ Lead asset-specific translational projects/teams in a matrix environment.

+ Work with internal Operations group to coordinate activities such as sample management, technical validation of assays both internally and at external CROs, review of SOWs, and data management

+ In collaboration with appropriate stakeholders ensure that clinical translational budgets, timelines, publication strategies, and regulatory compliance requirements are incorporated into program strategy

+ Author and review all translational medicine aspects of clinical and regulatory documents including development plans, study protocols, clinical study reports, and regulatory submissions.

+ Lead scientific collaborations and therapeutic area key opinion leader interactions in collaboration with partners from Medical Affairs, Commercial, or other functions.

+ Proactively consult primary scientific literature, keep current on state of art technologies and emerging concepts in immunology.

Qualifications

+ PhD, PharmD and/or MD with 8+ years or MS with 10+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry or equivalent; substantial understanding of Translational Sciences and relevant Therapeutic Area required. Will hire at level according to experience.

+ Strong scientific background in immunology or related field supported by publication record in these areas

+ Expertise in dermatology or rheumatology highly desirable

+ Knowledge of clinical trial methodology, regulatory requirements governing clinical trials, companion diagnostics/in vitro diagnostics, protocol design, and/or experience in development strategy preferred.

+ Demonstrated leadership in translational sciences (employing pharmacodynamic, predictive and exploratory biomarkers) and experience with development of assays including ligand binding assays, IHC/IF, gene expression profiling, flow cytometry is a plus

+ Ability to manage clinical translational programs and teams with minimal supervision.

+ Organization, detail oriented, and effective time management with an ability to adapt to changing priorities

+ Familiarity with data management and visualization tools and collaborating with computational biology to analyze complex data sets emerging from clinical trials

+ Excellent written and oral communication skills, ability to present the results in clear and concise manner

+ Strong interpersonal, influencing and collaboration skills to work in a team-oriented, matrix environment, and the ability to work through conflicts

Additional Information

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+ 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 short-term incentive programs. ?

+ This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs?

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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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