Associate Medical Director, Medical Affairs - Migraine

Job Description
*Position can sit in our Irvine, CA (preferred), Lake County, IL, or Madison, NJ offices. Onsite 3 days/week
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.
This role provides medical/scientific strategic and operational input into core medical affairs activities such as:
health-care professional/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 / safety surveillance activities).
Key responsibilities:
With oversight, provides input into the development of the medical strategy for Migraine assets
Provides specialist medical insights, and with oversight, executes on data generation, communication, and expert engagement activities.
Helps lead or contributes to:
comprehensive gap assessment, advisory boards, EE engagement, and scientific and medical education programs.
Contributes to design and execution of Phase IV trials including target population and endpoint selection
Leads medical monitoring activities for MA studies for Migraine Assets
Support medical affairs activities including dissemination of data supporting overall product scientific and business strategy
Helps provide scientific support for Migraine Assets;
may deliver scientific presentations
Develops and maintains professional and credible relationships with key opinion leaders;
actively participates in medical affairs activities aligned with strategy
Keeps abreast of professional information through conferences and/or medical literature and acts as a Migraine subject matter expert
Requirements:
Medical Doctorate (M.D.) degree with 2+ years experience diagnosing and treating migraine in clinical practice.
Completion of residency and/or fellowship in Neurology preferred
Ability to interact externally and internally to support global business strategy.
Must possess excellent oral and written communication skills.
Some knowledge of clinical trial methodology and experience in development of strategy and the design of protocols desired.
Works with some supervision and guidance. Exercises judgement within well-defined practices and policies