Therapeutic Area Head, Oncology

2 weeks ago

Montréal QC, Canada AbbVie Full time

**Company Description**

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.

When choosing your career path, choose to be remarkable.

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 an opportunity for a Therapeutic Area Head, Oncology to join our Medical Affairs team. In this role, you will drive medical/ scientific strategic and operational input into medical affairs plans and activities representing the Affiliate in coordination with the Global team. Lead the development and execution of the designated therapeutic area Medical Affairs strategies and tactics while establishing the direction of a team of ‘peer expert’ in Medical Advisor in people manager roles. This position is national in scope and preferably based in Montreal.

**Key responsibilities**
- Establish vision, strategy, and goals for the team that are aligned with clinical gaps, medical, and brand team strategies.
- Optimize utilization of resources to lead, develop and coach the team, including overseeing the performance management process, professional development and succession team plans.
- Maintain regulatory and compliance best practises. Allocate resources in a way that delivers results on clinical/ brand team strategies, while protecting AbbVie’s reputation.
- Manage the budget of the relevant therapeutic area (including local clinical studies) as approved in the medical plan.
- Supervise the design of local clinical studies and the review, approval and fulfillment of contract agreements of Investigator Initiated Studies.
- Maintain a continuous relationship with key clinical investigators and key external experts as to the relevant therapeutic area.
- Supervise the execution of Medical Affairs tactics such as satellite symposia, advisory boards, annual consultation plan, publication plan, warranting appropriate medical support to the Commercial Divisions and in agreement with local procedures.
- Ensure medical-scientific updates on products and competitors and provide medical training when requested/necessary.
- Provide medical support to the Pharmacovigilance Unit as to Adverse Events reported in clinical trials on the relevant products.
- Keep all interactions and materials audit ready and conduct regular management checks of the team’s activities.
- Proactively develop, in collaboration with the medical and brand teams, and execute a plan for field-based scientific support for therapeutic areas on marketed products as well as a portfolio pipeline process. Ensure field scientific support across the lifecycle of a product and ongoing analysis of clinical trends to develop key supporting strategies to meet business objectives.
- Responsible for gathering and sharing competitive intelligence (insights) that can provide critical information that could impact our development programs, as well as our marketed products.
- Interface with other Therapeutic Area Heads across all Affiliates, to ensure standardization and consistency.
- Look for opportunities to align clinical resources nationally, while minimizing costs and increasing efficiencies. Responsible for an operating budget.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams on the execution of an established in-field team stakeholder engagement plan.
- Maintain up-to-date scientific knowledge of assigned therapeutic area(s), product(s) uses and key external data.

**Qualifications** Education / Experience required**
- Doctorate or Medical degree is required.
- Relevant experience with solid knowledge of the biotech/pharmaceutical industry:

- General knowledge on drug development and clinical research in a relevant therapeutic area (minimum of five years)
- Relevant therapeutic area background and experience in oncology (minimum of three years).
- Relevant experience in AbbVie's Therapeutic Area of interest: immunology, neuroscience and specialty will be conidered a strong asset
- Proven track record in medical leadership, management, coaching individuals & teams, working on multiple brands across various teams (minimum of three years).
- Ability to build strong relationships with external experts and other relevant stakeholders.
- Ability to think and plan strategically (work plans, activities, timetables, targeting) and translate strategies into actionable and realistic medical actions with execution excellence.
- Strong commitment to compliance, scientific quality and integrity.
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