Medical Science Liaison, Specialty Care Quebec Atlantic
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About AbbVie
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 including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com . Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook , Instagram , X and YouTube.
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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.
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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 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 Quebec, territory to cover Quebec.
Key Responsibilities:
Develop/maintain key scientific knowledge that enables credible dissemination of information to external experts (EEs) and other healthcare professionals (HCPs), to help the development of professional working relationships.
Participate and follow-up on assigned investigator-initiated studies (IIS), clinical studies and medical projects initiated within the relevant therapeutic area (TA).
Provide scientific support and help maintain relationships with external experts/academic centres.
Deliver credible presentations on scientific matters to HCPs, individually or in groups.
Participate in the selection process to identify qualified HCPs AbbVie would wish to engage in collaborative efforts – such as research, or lecture/meeting support (advisory boards, congresses, symposiums, etc.); and to ensure a high level of scientific or educational integrity in these collaborative efforts.
Attend relevant scientific meetings/conferences and develop summaries of key data presented.
Qualifications
Education/Experience Required:
Must have an advanced degree ; Doctorate, PharmD or MD
Relevant business experience with solid knowledge of the biotech/pharmaceutical industry. Previous experience as an MSL preferred.
Relevant Eye Care / Ophthalmology 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.
Essential Skills & Abilities:
Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, etc.)
Must be at ease with technology (the use of various tools/systems to perform day-to-day tasks).
Travel required about 50% of the time.
Valid driver’s license and passport.
Key in-Field Team (IFT) Competencies:
Ability to understand the unmet needs of key stakeholders, make decisions that have an impact and execute the integration and assimilation of that information into the IFTs’ engagement approach.
Ability to coordinate scientific/medical engagement efforts across stakeholders within a single account, in order to develop interaction plans that are inline with the Scientific Interaction Plan (SIP) to achieve medical objectives.
In-depth understanding and execution of meaningful strategies and data-based business decisions to exceed IFT business goals.
Effectively communicate, collaborate and incorporate the views of other in-field team members to optimize business objectives.
AbbVie strives to provide a French working environment for its employees in Quebec. Although as part of its francization program has taken all reasonable steps to avoid imposing the following requirement, advanced amount of knowledge of English / Fluency in English is an essential requirement for the position of MSL including, but not limited to, for the following reasons:
English speaking employees outside the province of Quebec.
English speaking clients outside the province of Quebec.
Anglophone region outside the province of Quebec.
Additional Information
AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
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How this role compares
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We currently track 924 comparable Medical Affairs roles across 130 biopharma companies.
Salary context
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