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 - and products and services 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.

Purpose:

The Medical Science Liaison (MSL), is a field-based scientific expert that strategically supports the scientific and business objectives of a designated therapeutic area, Rheumatology, across the product life cycle. MSLs are the primary communicators of AbbVie science within a specific geography with healthcare professionals.  MSLs are the field scientific experts on given disease states and treatment options within a designated therapeutic area. They combine strong business acumen, clinical expertise, market awareness, and serve as a conduit of information to a cross-functional customer base internally within AbbVie.  Based on therapeutic needs and product life cycles, teams may focus on certain responsibilities, including clinical development and pipeline support. This position will support the Rheumatology team, which includes subject matter expertise for AbbVie products. 

Responsibilities:

• Identifies, gains access to and develops professional customer-centric based relationships with external experts (EEs) in therapeutic areas within assigned geography: Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota and Northeastern Iowa.
• Develops, executes and maintains high impact territory plans, including HCP and Investigator engagement plans in alignment with therapeutic area medical and scientific objectives with a focus on quality. Learns to use data and analytics to seek out and maximize opportunities within their territory. Delivers on territory plan objectives, meets assigned project deadlines, and achieves annual functional goals.
• Present scientific information and education relative to disease state, therapeutic landscape, and AbbVie products across the product lifecycle to healthcare professionals including physicians, academic institutions, researchers, and other health care professionals. Achieves mastery of scientific content and continually educates self on market issues/trends, product knowledge, and new therapeutic areas of interest as it pertains to specific business responsibilities, including creating awareness and relationships for AbbVie in the Medical community.
• Serve as internal medical and scientific resource to assigned therapeutic/product areas for development of disease-state and product communications and materials that are medically accurate, balanced, and consistent with regulatory guidelines.
• Create, maintain, and collaborate in relationships with internal cross-functional partnerships. Work with in-field commercial teams, as appropriate, to develop and execute account plans designed to support and meet shared business objectives.
• Support research initiatives as requested by AbbVie R&D, Clinical Operations, and Medical Affairs Departments and physician-initiated projects including, but not limited to, site evaluation and identification, recruitment, investigator meetings, external expert identification, and external collaboration management.
• Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and Procedure, including accurate and timely documentation as it relates to HCP (Healthcare Professionals) interactions. Responsible for maintaining annual expenses within assigned budget parameters.

• Advanced degree required (i.e., Pharm D, MD/DO, PhD, APP (i.e.: Physician Associate or Nurse Practitioner) in a relevant scientific discipline. Doctorate strongly preferred in a health science or clinical discipline.
• Greater than or equal to 2 years of clinical, scientific/research, or industry related experience or equivalent preferred.
• Must possess problem solving and analytic skills to be able to identify, and translate specific territory and corporate needs, into an action that will achieve objectives.
• Ability to quickly learn and apply foundational skills in Scientific Storytelling, Identifying Mobilizers and Active Listening.
• Ability to learn and convey clinical and non-clinical technical information effectively.
• Ability to engage the audience and help them understand and retain information.
• Proficiency in Excel, Word, Power Point, and other software skills; Excellent written/verbal communication skills.
• An essential requirement of the position is to meet health care industry representative (HCIR) credentialing requirements to enter facilities and organizations in your assigned territory. These HCIR credentialing requirements may include, but are not limited to, background checks, drug screens, and proof of immunization/vaccination for various diseases.
• Exhibits leadership attributes that align with company-wide initiatives such as: All for One AbbVie, Clear and Courageous, Make Possibilities Real, Agile and Accountable, and Decide Smart and Sure.
• Must be willing to travel up to 75% of the time; flexibility in travel and schedule are required for business needs, including weekends.

The candidate must live in the territory or willing to self-relocate within the territory. 

Job grade, level, and title will be determined by the selected candidate’s credentials, education, and experience.

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. ​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. ​

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community.  Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. 

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