Allergan Aesthetics Medical Science Liaison (Saudi National)
Notify me about similar jobsAbout this opportunity
Company Description
About AbbVie
At Allergan Aesthetics, an AbbVie company, we develop, manufacture, and market a portfolio of leading aesthetics brands and products. Our aesthetics portfolio includes facial injectables, body contouring, plastics, skin care, and more. Our goal is to consistently provide our customers with innovation, education, exceptional service, and a commitment to excellence, all with a personal touch. For more information, visit https://global.allerganaesthetics.com/. Follow Allergan Aesthetics on LinkedIn.
Job Description
This position is responsible for:
Current and upcoming Medical Aesthetics portfolios and their associate indications.
Own and drive Key Opinion Leaders (KOL) engagement
Lead scientific exchange with HCPs and report/advise cross-functional team on future medical activities
Advise and share feedback on brand strategy, development of tactical planning in collaboration with brand team in marketing department
Contribute to the total competency of Medical Affairs, not limited to technical aspects.
Contribute to medical-marketing messaging and approval procedures required.
Position Overview
Develops and maintains professional relationships with internal and external customers to provide comprehensive medical and scientific support to Allergan initiatives in assigned therapeutic areas.
Executes against the Medical Affairs plan for Saudi Arabia and MEA region
Provides scientific education and training initiatives across Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.
Performs field visits with key physicians 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.
Facilitate information, education, and research activities for physicians and ancillary healthcare professionals regarding current and future therapies in development or commercialized by Allergan. Works closely with other Allergan 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 Duties and Responsibilities
Business Planning, Internal Trainings, External training & education, thought leadership identification, development and engagement, Clinical studies feasibility & Pharmacovigilance and compliance in addition to being an expert in the therapy area
Qualifications
Educational Qualifications:
Strong preference for medical degree (MD), or advanced degree of science (PhD).
Candidates with Master’s/bachelor’s degree in a scientific discipline (Pharmacists) can be considered in given the previous work experience
Relevant experience:
Minimum of 2 – 5 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry
Specialized therapeutic area expertise is more preferrable (Dermatology or experience in Dermatology, Plastic surgery or Medical Aesthetics therapeutic area is preferred)
Medical affairs experience in various activities or full understanding: such as advisory board management, publication, and other scientific exchange activities
Good understanding of local market.
Experience in establishing strong influential relationships with KOLs and proof of KOL development
Good understanding of multinational culture and ways of working.
For Internal candidates: At least 2 years in Abbvie with successful track record
Based in Riyadh, Willing to travel as necessary for business purposes
Essential Skills, Experience, and Competencies:
Personal:
Good leadership skills and able to persuade at all levels within the organization (including Commercial team) as well as with external customers (KOLs, HCPs, etc.)
Strong presentation and interpersonal communication skills along with a positive attitude on learning.
Professional:
Thinking strategically and being able to develop and execute plans at country level.
Specifically, able to understand in-depth knowledge and clinical aspects of medical aesthetics.
Excellent presentation skills, strong interpersonal skills.
Able to engage HCPs and communicate effectively with them as well as medical institution and/or association.
Comply to all business ethics and all applicable regulations to secure personal credibility and integrity as well as Allergan
Language Requirements:
English Fluent in verbal & written
Technical:
Proficient computer skills, including MS office
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.
US & Puerto Rico only - to learn more, visit https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.html
US & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation, click here to learn more:
https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/reasonable-accommodations.html
Job details
How this role compares
Computed from every other active Medical Affairs role in our database, not just this employer's listings.
We currently track 1653 comparable Medical Affairs roles across 178 biopharma companies.
Salary context
372 of 1653 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)
Peers share this role's job function. This posting doesn't list a seniority level, so peers aren't narrowed by seniority either -- the range below may span more levels than usual.
Where these roles are based
Top locations among the 1653 comparable roles
+ 58 more countries
Seniority mix
1019 of 1653 peers have a known seniority level
Therapeutic area mix
576 of 1653 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden
Similar opportunities
The closest matches from our peer group, ranked by how similar they are, not how well you'd qualify for them -- treat this as market context, not a guaranteed shortlist; a weak match is labeled as one below.
Notify me about similar jobs
Get an email when we spot other openings like this one – same job function, comparable seniority, roles you'd actually want to see.
Or follow a whole field: get every new Medical Science Liaison job in Saudi Arabia, and choose locations and companies.
How we calculate "similar"
No black box, no LLM guesswork: a deterministic score built from four normalized attributes. Here's this role's own peer group at different match levels, so you can see the mechanism, not just the result.
Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.
0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.