About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You will have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

The Medical Director is a member of the Affiliate Management Team, with direct participation in governance meetings. Its responsibilities have to be with provide Medical Manager supervision in the technical approach related to each product strategy, assuring that the medical function is solid represented by the different divisional teams. The development and optimization of work and communication strategies and processes, that transforms the techno-scientific language of the pharmaceutical products in a consistent marketing information, towards a safety and risk-controlled practice for the EPD product use in the market. And the management, leadership and training of other related areas as Medical Affairs, New Evidence Generation Projects, Medical Information, Digital Initiatives and Sales Force training, assuring that these functions are appropriately represented, in a consistent mode and are technically adequate for our medical activities.

Main Responsibilities

• As the Manager of the Medical Affairs Sub-Function, oversees the strategy implementation and operations for overseeing the direction, planning, execution, clinical trials/research and the data collection activities.
• Contributes to implementation of clinical protocols and facilitates completion of final reports.
• Recruits clinical investigators and negotiates study design and costs.
• Responsible for directing human clinical trials, phases III & IV for company products under development.
• Participates in adverse event reporting and safety responsibilities monitoring.
• Coordinates and provides reporting information for reports submitted to the regulatory agencies.
• Monitors adherence to protocols and determines study completion.
• Coordinates and oversees investigator initiations and group studies.
• May participate in adverse event reporting and safety responsibilities monitoring.
• May act as consultant/liaison with other corporations when working under licensing agreements.

Minimum Education

• Physician
• Medical specialty or equivalent by experience

Minimum Experience/Training Required

• 7 years of experience in a leadership role in the pharmaceutical industry or its equivalent in university teaching.  
• Demonstrated management and leadership skills
• Good awareness and understanding of medical affairs operations, and working across many functional areas
• Good awareness and understanding of Medical Studies, inspection readiness, communication channels
• Good English language communication skills, both in written and oral form.
• Availability to travel.
• Adaptability, Integrity and Teamwork.

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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