AbbVie Posted July 15, 2026

MSL Parkinson

Madrid, MD Full-time
Medical Affairs Neuroscience
Notify me about similar jobs
This position is no longer accepting applications.

AbbVie has closed or removed this posting -- see current similar openings below.

View the original listing (may no longer be live).

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

Ensure that all activities and interactions are conducted with due regard to all applicable local, global and national laws, regulations, guidelines, codes of conduct, Company policies and accepted standards of best practice.

Provide scientific and technical leadership to ensure professional and credible relationships with thought leaders and external experts of strategic importance to AbbVie.

Ensure a strong medical and scientific presence for AbbVie in key academic centers by facilitation of research and educational initiatives, while supporting requests for medical and scientific information on products or areas of therapeutic interest to AbbVie.

Assist in the initiation; oversight and follow up of assigned clinical studies and medical projects initiated within the therapeutic area for which the MSL carries responsibility (e.g. post marketing clinical activities such as registry/database projects, epidemiological surveys, post-authorization studies (phase IV).  All such activities must comply with applicable local laws, guidelines, and codes of practice, SOPs, and AbbVie R&D (GPRD) SOPs.

Act as the point of contact with thought leaders to facilitate investigator initiated study (IIS) ideas and requests for support to the local and global medical teams as appropriate.

Serve as a point of contact within the Medical Affairs team for thought leaders and external experts within an assigned geographic area in order to satisfy their needs for scientific knowledge in a therapeutic area and, when requested, relevant AbbVie medicines, to support their safe, effective and appropriate use.

Deliver credible presentations on scientific matters to physicians, individually or in groups (meetings, clinical sessions, etc.), where requested, but with the focus on Tier 1 and 2 thought leaders.

Participate in the selection process to identify appropriately qualified thought leaders the Company would wish to engage in collaborative efforts – such as potential research collaborations, or educational and advisory roles (Advisory Boards, Congresses, Symposia, etc.); while ensuring a high level of scientific or educational integrity in these collaborative efforts.

Facilitate medical and scientific field intelligence – for example, competitor research and medical strategies, educational activities – and communicate, where appropriate, within the Company.

Attend relevant scientific meetings and Conferences.  Collaborate with internal stakeholders to develop summaries of key data and other scientifically relevant information to inform AbbVie strategic priorities and initiatives.

Upon request, assist physicians with requests for access to AbbVie medicines on a named patient or compassionate use basis, subject to all applicable legal and regulatory requirements.

Support internal teams such as sales and marketing to develop their scientific and technical expertise through the delivery of scientific update presentations.

Provide key thought leaders / external experts and internal medical and clinical teams with scientific and technical support for publications of scientific or medical interest.

Qualifications

Advanced degree (e.g.  PharmD., MD, PhD) in a relevant scientific discipline (e.g. Neuroscience) is preferred but candidates with an undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline and demonstrated experience will be considered.

Experience in developing and maintaining expert knowledge for the assigned therapeutic area, and in medical research in general.

Solid knowledge of the pharmaceutical environment and the role of Medical Affairs to advance the medical and scientific objectives of a pharmaceutical company.

Demonstrated expertise in the scientific methods applied to clinical research and current legislative/regulatory controls applicable to this research.

Ability to comprehensively learn about new subject areas and environments.

Excellent written and spoken communication and presentation skills, with a demonstrated ability to develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with thought leaders, physicians and other healthcare decision makers.

Fluency in English.

Place of residence: Madrid

Working areas: Madrid, Castilla La Mancha, Castilla León, Extremadura y Canarias

High customer orientation.

Strong commitment to compliance with the relevant rules and procedures, and to scientific quality and integrity.

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

Seniority
Not listed
Function
Medical Affairs
Therapeutic area
Neuroscience
Location
Madrid, MD
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 1256 comparable Medical Affairs roles across 164 biopharma companies.

1256Comparable roles tracked
1124Currently active
164Companies hiring similar roles
70Countries represented

Salary context

322 of 1256 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.

This roleSubject Not listed on this posting
Lowest disclosed · Executive Coordinator · Merck KGaA $33/hr – $50/hr (≈ $68,640–$104,000/yr)
Highest disclosed · Sr Medical Director (Heme Oncology) (Boston, US) · Servier $298/hr – $350/hr (≈ $619,840–$728,000/yr)
Peer group range $86,320 – $673,920 (median $224,445)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 1256 comparable roles

United States542
China's Mainland95
Japan83
China56
United Kingdom51
Germany49

+ 64 more countries

Seniority mix

744 of 1256 peers have a known seniority level

Director226
Senior169
Manager149
Associate Director71
Associate63
Executive/VP26
Senior Director22
Intern/Fellow/Postdoc11
Principal7

Therapeutic area mix

405 of 1256 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Oncology157
Neuroscience48
Cardiovascular / CVRM37
Rare Disease36
Immunology36
Dermatology & Aesthetics30
Respiratory25
Vaccines & Infectious Disease19
Gastroenterology12
Ophthalmology5

Currently open similar roles

This posting is closed, but here are live openings closest to it -- ranked by similarity, not by how well you'd qualify for them.

80%similar
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc (USA) Remote, United States Associate Director
Same function Same therapeutic area Same country
80%similar
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc (USA) Sleepy Hollow, United States Director
Same function Same therapeutic area Same country
80%similar
E.R. Squibb & Sons,L.L.C. Princeton, United States Associate Director
Same function Same therapeutic area Same country
80%similar
Genzyme Corporation Cambridge, United States Director
Same function Same therapeutic area Same country
80%similar
Biogen Dallas, United States Senior
Same function Same therapeutic area Same country
80%similar
UCB
Same function Same therapeutic area Same country

Open in 2 locations

Minneapolis, United StatesMilwaukee, United States

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.

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.

80%
Associate Director, Field Medical Affairs - Neurology (Mountain West)
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc (USA) · Remote, United States · Associate Director
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
80%
US Senior Medical Director Neurology
Genzyme Corporation · Cambridge, United States · Director
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
80%
Medical Science Liaison, Neurology, Great Lakes
UCB · Detroit, Michigan, United States · Seniority not listed
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
80%
Director, HEOR Strategy, Neuroscience
AbbVie · Florham Park, NJ · Director
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
Unmatched or unknown dimensions score exactly the same: 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.