Company Description

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 – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

Job purpose and objectives:

You will be responsible for driving and executing our evidence generation plans within assigned therapeutic area – and for keeping oversight of evidence generation activities and publications across these therapeutic domains. You will have the opportunity to contribute to impacting and shaping the real-world evidence generation strategy at the affiliate level.

Besides, your statistical and methodological expertise will be pivotal to unlock the value of particular (local/area) real-world evidence projects across all our therapeutic areas.

You will co-lead evidence gap prioritization work through close liaison with evidence and brand teams and you will collaborate closely with the medical affairs team and other functions such as market access and commercial to lead the development and implementation of innovative evidence generation solutions. You will identify and co-create scientifically robust and innovative, methodologically-sound research initiatives together with key members of brand teams and/or evidence teams. Further, you will be proactively involved in the local research ecosystem and any digital and data partnerships to close identified gaps. Besides, you will be responsible for driving and managing publications (incl. conference abstracts, posters,…) in a compliant manner.

You will be consulted for methodological questions (i.e. statistical input into research concepts/protocols, query for post-hoc analysis, statistical interpretation of performed data analyses, etc.).

In this role, you will strategically partner with numerous stakeholders inside and outside the affiliate and build expertise across several core business functions.

As for Medical Excellence Manager, the primary objectives include enhancing efficiency, improving process quality across all functional areas, and advancing Medical Affairs’ overall business competence. Working closely with the affiliate Medical Director, Medical leadership team, and other critical stakeholders such as Europe Area Medical Planning & Operations Director, Global omnichannel, Field Medical Excellence, Customer Excellence, and BTS.

You will coordinate the delivery of medical affairs key business strategies and tactics through excellence in key functional capabilities. In relevant cross-functional projects and global initiatives, you will serve as a project manager and a bridge between the Affiliate Medical Affairs and their stakeholders. By doing so, they aim to reduce the operational burden and ensure the BalU Medical team remains customer focused.

Due to the role's regional scope it can be based in any Baltics country.

Core responsibilities:

• Drive and oversee the development and execution of strategic evidence generation plans across all therapeutic areas.
• Maintain and further develop operational excellence standards for Medical activities in the affiliate, including digital transformation of the affiliate Medical team’s ways of working.

1. Manage local Real-World Evidence Research and Publications within Therapeutic Areas:

• Drive and oversee the development and execution of strategic evidence generation plans.
• Pro-actively liaise with evidence teams and/or brand teams re. gap assessments and lead evidence teams in the Belgian Affiliate across the selected therapeutic areas, challenging gaps and ensuring alignment with business priorities.
• Advise and co-create with key members of evidence teams and/or brand teams scientifically robust and innovative evidence generation initiatives to close the gaps.
• Identify and evaluate vendors on an ongoing basis, and maintain oversight of existing vendors contracted to execute local research initiatives.
• Drive key local evidence generation projects in close collaboration with the respective Teams (internal and external).
• Understand the local research ecosystem, and be curious towards the research evolution incl. innovative methodologies, digital and real-world data partnerships.
• Develop strong communication strategies in close collaboration with medical affairs employees to drive publications in cooperation with External Experts (managing publication plans)
• Drive and manage publications (incl. conference abstracts, posters, manuscripts ) in a compliant manner.
• Contribute to regional and global evidence solution initiatives such as evidence network meetings.
• Partner with the Affiliate Real-World Evidence Lead and Medical Director re. medical affairs planning and monitoring.

2. Provide methodology expertise in the light of Real-World Evidence projects:

• Provide statistical/methodology input into research concepts and protocols in collaboration with internal (e.g. medical affairs employees) and external stakeholders (e.g. vendors).
• Think on appropriate post-hoc analysis for RWE projects.
• Aid with statistical interpretation of research results.
• Lead, or co-lead (local/regional/global) RWE projects with a strong methodological compound.

3. Maintain and further develops operational excellence standards for Medical activities in the Affiliate:

• Partner of the Medical Director in Medical functional planning and operational monitoring (relevant dashboards, KPIs).
• Provide operational support to Medical functional priorities in alignment with the Medical Director.
• Serve as the Affiliate SME to ensure the seamless implementation of the Medical IFT methodology (customer engagement playbooks, CLM, Ways of Working documents, digital tools etc.)
• Liaise with the Affiliate TA leads and broader Medical team to get regular feedback on material needs.
• Ensure onboarding plan for Medical is in place and relevant local trainings/materials are developed.
• Contribute to the production of field medical materials to ensure further development of the MCM capabilities in the Affiliate.
• Is a strategic collaborator in, and contributor to the affiliate FutureFit and Brand Teams, and ensure medical alignment with local objectives where possible.
• Responsible for maintaining actuality of local SOPs and WIs regulating Medical Affairs activities.

4. Drive digital transformation of the Affiliate Medical team’s ways of working:

• Is a local subject matter expert in new digital solutions available in the Company to optimize internal collaboration and/or external communications.
• Drive Medical team’s journey to multichannel and then to omnichannel approach.
• Collaborate with CEx, BTS and Medical Excellence teams to ensure appropriate roll-out of Veeva enhancement initiatives and reporting.
• Ensure proper functioning of the material approval system, CRM, publication of digital material, dashboards etc. through collaboration with Medical Excellence team.

5. Analyzes Medical team’s activities and develops insights to guide Affiliate Medical strategy, processes and resources:

• Is responsible for analyzing Medical team’s activities and generation of insights that should be presented to for the Affiliate Medical Leadership to guide justified decisions on shaping the strategy.
• Work with Customer Excellence, Medical Excellence and BTS teams to ensure dashboard accuracy in reporting on KPIs / monitoring metrics.

Qualifications

Required:

• Master’s degree in a scientific discipline or in a health-related science or higher.
• Knowledge of essential (bio)statistics relevant for pharmaceutical industry is strongly preferred (multivariable regression modelling, logistic models, cox-proportional hazards modelling, etc.); prior programming experience with statistical software is a big plus.
• A first experience in pharmaceutical industry, CRO or academic research with demonstrated experience in a range of evidence generation methodologies is highly preferred.
• Strong commitment to compliance with the relevant rules and procedures, and to scientific quality and integrity.
• Excellent written and spoken communication and presentation skills (English; and 1 of local languages preferred but not mandatory).
• Dynamic, Innovative and strategic thinker as well as sound judgment, strong planning and organizational skills, and the ability to get things done.
• Ability to lead in matrix organizations: Collaborative, team-oriented approach, able to build, develop and support relationships across the country organization.
• Ability to work independently and in a team-oriented environment.
• Willingness to travel if needed.

Additional Information

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