Medical Science Director

23 hours ago


Springfield, Illinois, United States Abbott Full time
About the Role

Abbott, a leading global healthcare company, is seeking a highly skilled Medical Science Manager to join its Vascular Business team. As a key member of the Medical Affairs department, you will be responsible for advancing scientific and clinical knowledge in specific therapeutic areas to achieve both clinical and business objectives.

Key Responsibilities
  • Maintain up-to-date scientific and clinical knowledge in specific therapeutic and disease areas.
  • Synthesize available evidence related to therapies and develop strategic recommendations based on gap analysis and understanding of clinical unmet needs.
  • Deliver fair-balanced and objective clinical and scientific data responses to healthcare professionals, payors, and patient organizations in response to unsolicited requests for information on the use of company therapies.
  • Proactively engage and lead scientific exchanges with key opinion leaders and other key stakeholders to share clinical insights, emerging data, and developments related to scientific advancement and therapeutic areas.
  • Lead the plan for clinical data and scientific message dissemination, coordinating with clinical, marketing, medical affairs, and public affairs.
  • Attend scientific conferences/medical meetings and symposia, engage in discussions, and cultivate professional relationships.
  • Provide input to management regarding alternative therapies, business development opportunities/risks, and healthcare professional feedback.
  • Manage medical and scientific advisory boards to capture key opinion leader insights and translate them into medical strategy to guide and support critical business objectives.
  • Clinical Research: Identify unmet clinical areas, support submission to SRC, and coordinate with ISS program manager to ensure compliance throughout study life cycle.
  • Provide scientific input into company-sponsored trials, including site and investigator selection, and optimizing trial conduct.
  • Provide disease state education pertinent to therapies.
  • Strategic Planning/Medical Intelligence: Consolidate and interpret medical intelligence, reporting findings to internal stakeholders to inform business imperatives.
  • Lead strategic planning and professional development, training, and support to achieve organizational goals and objectives.
  • Partner with internal groups (Regulatory, Clinical, HEOR, Training/Education, Commercial, Marketing, Publications, etc.) to identify, develop, and implement strategies, and monitor their results.
  • Collaborate with a wide range of external partners, including clinicians, scientists, clinical investigators, and key opinion leaders to address scientific imperatives, address clinical unmet needs, and advance therapeutic field.
  • Facilitate product testing with healthcare professionals for formative/summative testing.
  • Provide feedback and medical input to local commercial plans and strategies.
  • Identify and support speakers for advisory boards, symposia, and educational programs with regulatory-approved materials.
  • Train, educate, mentor, and lead other projects impacting the organization.
  • Key Opinion Leader Engagement: Serve as a key liaison with external healthcare professionals, key opinion leaders, and scientific subject matter experts.
  • Develop and maintain key relationships with emerging key opinion leaders.
  • Collaborate with business leadership to create and execute key opinion leader engagement strategy.
  • Serve as a primary resource regarding physician scientific support.
Requirements
  • Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in Business or Life Science.
  • Preference is for the candidate to have an advanced degree.
  • Minimum 5+ years with demonstrated leadership success in the following areas: clinical or scientific medical device industry or scientific pharmaceutical industry experience.
  • Experience as a healthcare provider (RN, NP, PA, MD), research, clinical, or leadership role in a healthcare capacity with multiple years of cardiovascular device experience either in industry or in clinical position(s).
  • Travel 30% travel.


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