Scientific Director, Medical Affairs - Parkinson's Disease
AbbVie
Irvine, CA · Posted October 24, 2026
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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
The Medical Affairs (MA) organization provides patients, healthcare providers and payers everywhere with the practical and clinically relevant information and solutions they need to use AbbVie products safely and effectively, throughout the product lifecycle and the patient’s journey.
Scientific Director provides medical and scientific input into strategic and operational medical affairs activities for AbbVie’s Neuroscience portfolio such as: health care professional and provider interactions (Payers, Patients, Prescribers, and Providers); generation of clinical and scientific data (enhancing therapeutic benefit and value); educational initiatives (medical education, data, guidelines, and value proposition); safeguarding patient safety (risk minimization activities and safety surveillance activities).
Works closely with commercial teams to provide strategic medical input into core brand (product) strategies, and to support medical and marketing activities (promotional material generation and product launches) and market access. Executes core medical affair tactics to support launch. Collaborates with clinical development on Medical Affairs support of priority trials.
Key responsibilities:
Contributes to the development of brand strategies.
Lead and support Medical Affairs initiatives (strategy and tactics) for Parkinson’s Disease asset launch
Contributes to the development of and leads the execution of the Medical Education / Advisory Board & EE Engagement Plan generation in line with TA plan. Lead the individual (Global) Conference planning and execution.
Leads the development and execution of internal training activities
Generates clinical and scientific data per evidence gap assessment.
Responsible to manage budget for assigned projects.
May support cross-functional teams with subject matter expertise.
Actively contributes to the development of a TA EE Engagement Plan.
Contributes to the generation of MI communication content and supports training on Medical Information (MI) materials.
Responsible for performing the accurate and detailed medical review of complex advertising and promotional materials for assigned therapeutic area(s) within Medical Affairs. Provides timely and accurate reviews of promotional materials in accordance with established policies and practice standards, including regulatory guidelines to meet customer needs.
May assist as consultant and liaison with other corporations when working under licensing agreements and/or in the evaluation of new business development opportunities.
This is a hybrid role based in Lake County, IL preferably
Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in the sciences required. Advanced Degree PhD, PharmD, PA or NP preferred. Residency or additional post doctorate experience preferred.
5-7+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry or equivalent; substantial understanding of relevant therapeutic area required.
Knowledge of clinical trial methodology, regulatory requirements governing clinical trials and experience in the design of protocols preferred.
Interactions normally require the ability to gain cooperation of others, conduct presentations of technical information concerning specific projects and schedules, etc.
Ability to interact externally and internally to support global business strategy. Must possess excellent oral and written communication skills.
Works with some supervision and guidance. Exercises judgment within well-defined practices and policies.
Ability to interact with and coordinate appropriate scientific and medical activities with internal stakeholders (i.e. commercial, clinical operations, discovery, statistics, regulatory, etc.) as they relate to on-going medical affairs projects.
Works with some supervision and guidance. Exercises judgment within well-defined practices and policies.
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.
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