AbbVie Posted October 14, 2026

Medical Director, Early Pipeline, Immunology, GPS

North Chicago, IL Full-time
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About this opportunity

Company Description

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.

Job Description

Purpose:

Describe the primary goals, objectives or functions or outputs of this position.

Serve independently as the Product Safety Team Lead for one or more assigned products in early development, with accountability for leading safety surveillance, signal detection, validation, assessment, and risk management activities.

Responsibilities:

List up to 10 main responsibilities for the job. Include information about accountability and scope.

Serves independently as the Product Safety Team Lead for one or more assigned products in early development, providing medical and strategic leadership to the Product Safety Team and driving evidence-based safety decisions.

Integrates pharmacology, chemistry, clinical data, and nonclinical toxicology to lead safety surveillance and inform product safety strategy.

Provides safety oversight for pharmaceutical / biological / drug –device combined investigational products, contributes to the authorship of key pharmacovigilance documents, including but not limited to, development product safety assessments, regulatory responses and risk management plans

Interprets and applies current regulatory guidance as appropriate for safety surveillance and authorship of PV documents

Leads the analysis and interpretation of safety data and communicates conclusions and recommendations to cross-functional teams and governance bodies.

Effectively writes, reviews and provides input on technical documents.

Leads the strategy for Development Safety Update Reports (DSURs)

Oversight of safety surveillance and pharmacovigilance activities for products in clinical trials

Leads and implements the risk management strategy for assigned products

Supports other Product Safety Team Leads and due diligence projects as needed

Interprets applicable pharmacovigilance regulations to guide patient safety activities and cross-functional safety decision-making.

Qualifications

MD / DO with 2+ years of residency with patient management experience

Pharmacovigilance experience in the pharmaceutical industry preferred

Demonstrated ability to analyze and guide the analysis of preclinical, clinical, and epidemiological data.

Demonstrated ability to author and critically review technical documents.

Ability to formulate, clearly present, and defend medical safety assessments and recommendations to cross-functional teams and governance bodies.

Work collaboratively in a team environment and be self-starting and able to work independently

Fluency, both written and oral, in English

Key Stakeholders:

Group Head, Executive Medical Director, TA head, PST Lead, Analytics / Data Scientists, Project Management and Data Management, Clinical Development, Preclinical Safety, Precision Medicine, Regulatory Affairs

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

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 long-term incentive programs.

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.​

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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Job details

Seniority
Director
Function
Medical Affairs
Therapeutic area
Immunology
Location
North Chicago, IL
Employment type
Full-time

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Medical Affairs role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 313 comparable Director Medical Affairs roles across 62 biopharma companies.

313Comparable roles tracked
294Currently active
62Companies hiring similar roles
28Countries represented

Salary context

142 of 313 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.

This roleSubject $160,500/yr – $305,000/yr
Lowest disclosed · Principal Strategic Medical Writer · AbbVie $109,500/yr – $208,500/yr
Peer group range $159,000 – $392,100 (median $264,000)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 313 comparable roles

United States229
United Kingdom23
China8
Canada7
Germany4
France4

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Seniority mix

313 of 313 peers have a known seniority level

Director262
Senior Director34
Principal17

Therapeutic area mix

137 of 313 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Oncology56
Neuroscience16
Immunology16
Respiratory15
Dermatology & Aesthetics9
Cardiovascular / CVRM9
Rare Disease6
Vaccines & Infectious Disease5
Gastroenterology4
Ophthalmology1

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