Medical Science Liaison (MSL) - Oncology (Western Region, Czech Republic)

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, as well as 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

In this field-based position, you will represent AbbVie Medical Affairs as a subject matter expert in oncology, covering the Western region of the Czech Republic. Your role will involve:

• Providing scientific and technical leadership to ensure professional and credible relationships with external experts/HCPs of strategic importance to AbbVie.
• Serving as a point of contact within the Medical Affairs team for external experts in the assigned geographic area to satisfy their needs for scientific knowledge in a therapeutic area and, when requested, relevant AbbVie medicines, to support their safe, effective, and appropriate use.
• Developing and executing scientific interaction plans and cycle plans; contributing to cross-functional account planning, as appropriate.
• Being responsible for appropriate tiering and segmentation of external experts based on guidance from IFT playbooks and appropriate documentation of HCP interactions and relevant insights in the CRS and related platforms and systems.
• Ensuring a strong medical and scientific presence for AbbVie in key academic centers by facilitating research and educational initiatives, while supporting requests for medical and scientific information on products or areas of therapeutic interest to AbbVie.
• Working closely with Medical Advisor colleagues and supporting internal teams such as sales and marketing, and members of the Affiliate Brand Team to develop their scientific and technical expertise through scientific update presentations. Collaborating cross-functionally with other in-field members while retaining functional independence.
• Assisting in the initiation, oversight, and follow-up of assigned GMA studies and medical projects initiated within the therapeutic area for which the MSL carries responsibility (e.g., registry/database projects, epidemiological studies, post-authorization studies (PMOS)).
• Supporting prioritized interventional studies run by Clinical Development Operations, with study initiation visits, and acting as a subject matter expert within the One R&D community. All such activities must comply with applicable local laws, guidelines, codes of practice, SOPs, and AbbVie R&D SOPs.
• Acting as the point of contact with external experts to facilitate investigator-initiated study (IIS) ideas and requests for support to local and global medical teams, as appropriate.
• Delivering credible presentations on scientific matters to physicians, individually or in groups (meetings, clinical sessions, etc.), where requested, with a focus on thought leaders.
• Attending relevant scientific meetings and conferences. Collaborating with internal stakeholders to develop summaries of key data and other scientifically relevant information to inform AbbVie strategic priorities and initiatives.
• Upon request, assisting physicians with requests for access to AbbVie medicines on a named patient or compassionate use basis, subject to all applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
• Providing key thought leaders/external experts and internal medical and clinical teams with scientific and technical support for publications of scientific or medical interest.
• Ensuring that all activities and interactions are conducted with due regard to all applicable local, global, and national laws, regulations, guidelines, codes of conduct, Company policies, and accepted standards of best practice.

Qualifications

We are seeking a team player who can demonstrate:

• Degree qualifications (e.g., PharmD, MD, PhD) in a relevant scientific discipline are preferred.
• Ideally, experience as a Medical Science Liaison. Alternatively, you are looking for an opportunity to enter the pharmaceutical industry from research or clinical settings.
• Experience in developing and maintaining expert knowledge for the assigned therapeutic area, and in medical research in general.
• Expertise in the scientific methods applied to clinical research and current legislative/regulatory controls applicable to this research.
• An ability to comprehensively learn about new subject areas and environments.
• Excellent written and spoken communication and presentation skills, with a demonstrated ability to develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with thought leaders, physicians, and other healthcare decision-makers.
• Fluency in Czech and a strong command of the English language.
• High customer orientation.
• Valid driver’s license and comfort with regular travel.

Additional Information

This is a remote, field-based position. You should live in Prague or another location in Western Czech Republic.

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