Medical Science Liaison, Dermatology, Ontario

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 whereby 90% of our employees are proud to say they work for AbbVie and 88% are proud of how we contribute to the community.
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, eye care, virology, women’s health, and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.
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We have a new opportunity for a Medical Science Liaison (MSL) to join our Medical Affairs team. In this exciting career opportunity, you will develop and nurture relationships, as well as advance our scientific credibility with established and emerging external experts (EEs). Our MSLs respond to requests by providing key scientific/medical information to external experts and internal stakeholders. This role will cover stakeholders in Ontario East and Ottawa.
Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver credible presentations on scientific matters to HCPs, individually or in groups.
• Participate in the selection process to identify qualified HCPs AbbVie would wish to engage in collaborative efforts – such as research, or lecture/meeting support (advisory boards, congresses, symposiums, etc.); and to ensure a high level of scientific or educational integrity in these collaborative efforts.
• Provide scientific support and help maintain relationships with external experts/academic centres.
• Attend relevant scientific meetings/conferences and develop summaries of key data presented.
• Develop/maintain key scientific knowledge that enables credible dissemination of information to external experts (EEs) and other healthcare professionals (HCPs), to help the development of professional working relationships.
• Participate and follow-up on assigned investigator-initiated studies (IIS), clinical studies and medical projects initiated within the relevant therapeutic area (TA).

Education/Experience Required:

• Keen interest in developing and maintaining expert knowledge for assigned therapeutic area/product and medical research in general.
• Previous experience in a customer-facing role in the healthcare industry.
• Experience in the presentation and/or interpretation of scientific or clinical research publications.
• Relevant Dermatology background is considered an asset.
• Relevant business experience with solid knowledge of the biotech/pharmaceutical industry.
• Knowledge of scientific methods applied to clinical research and the current legislative/regulatory controls.
• Doctorate or MD is preferred. MSc degree in scientific related discipline and demonstrated experience will also be considered.
• Previous experience as an MSL preferred.

Essential Skills & Abilities:

• English language proficiency (oral and written).
• Travel required about 30% of the time.
• Must be at ease with technology (the use of various tools/systems to perform day-to-day tasks).
• Valid driver’s license and passport.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, etc.)

Key in-Field Team (IFT) Competencies:

• Effectively communicate, collaborate, and incorporate the views of other in-field team members to optimize business objectives.
• Ability to coordinate scientific/medical engagement efforts across stakeholders within a single account, to develop interaction plans that are inline with the Scientific Interaction Plan (SIP) to achieve medical objectives.
• Ability to understand the unmet needs of key stakeholders, make decisions that have an impact and execute the integration and assimilation of that information into the IFTs’ engagement approach.
• In-depth understanding and execution of meaningful strategies and data-based business decisions to exceed IFT business goals.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and encourages women, Aboriginal people, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities to apply.
Covid vaccination new hires amendments:
Full vaccination against COVID-19 is a condition of employment for this position, with possible accommodation for validated exemptions, within the limits of applicable legislation. AbbVie employees are also required to comply with any COVID-19 related external requirements, including any testing requirements, applicable to their work activities outside AbbVie premises (for example, travelling and visiting stakeholders and customers).
AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer including disability/vets. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a disabled veteran, recently separated veteran, Armed Forces service medal veteran or active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran or a person’s relationship or association with a protected veteran, including spouses and other family members, or any other protected group status. We will take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified minorities, women, individuals with a disability, disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, Armed Forces service medal veterans or active-duty wartime or campaign badge veterans. The Affirmative Action Plan is available for viewing in the Human Resources office during regular business hours.