**Company Description**
**The Opportunity**:
Are you a passionate scientist looking to make a difference in the healthcare industry? We are seeking an individual to assist in building and maintaining relationships with external experts, advancing the scientific credibility of our company, and providing expert knowledge and guidance on industry codes of conduct.
As a Medical Scientific liaison, you will have the opportunity to respond to requests for scientific and medical information, provide updates to external experts, and develop professional working relationships. You will also participate in the oversight and follow-up of assigned IIS projects, clinical studies, and medical projects, ensuring compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines, and codes of conduct.
Your expertise will be essential in ensuring the credible dissemination of scientific information and informed scientific dialogue with physicians and external experts. You will play a crucial role in upholding AbbVie's policies and procedures, as well as accepted standards of best practice.
**Major Responsibilities**:
- Provide scientific and technical support for, and help maintain professional and credible relationships with, external experts/ academic centers to ensure access to current medical/scientific information on the products/areas of therapeutic interest.
- Maintain contacts with physicians and external experts to satisfy their needs for scientific knowledge in the therapeutic area and, where requested, AbbVie drugs/products the MSL carries responsibility for.
- Deliver credible presentations on scientific matters to physicians, individually or in groups (stakeholder meetings, journal clubs, Nurse Training/Best Practice Sharing Meetings, etc.), where requested.
- Understands the Pharmacovigilance and Product Quality reporting requirements and their impact on medical information. Ensures that all potential adverse events or quality defects are appropriately reported and followed up according to Company procedures. Ensure up-to-date knowledge of product uses and external data. Perform administrative duties promptly as assigned.
- Participate in the selection process to identify appropriately qualified physicians the Company would wish to engage in collaborative efforts - such as potential research collaborations, or lecture/meeting support (Advisory Boards, Congresses, Symposia, etc.); and to ensure a high level of scientific or educational integrity in these collaborative efforts.
- Assist in initiation, oversight and follow-up of assigned clinical studies/medical projects initiated within the relevant TA (e.g. IIS projects, post-marketing clinical activities such as registry/database projects, epidemiological surveys, clinical studies). Note: all activities to comply with applicable local laws, guidelines, codes of practice, SOPs, and GPRD SOPs. Develop awareness and understanding of competitor issues/intelligence - for example, product strategies, studies, commercial messages, positioning, etc. - and communicate, where appropriate, within the Company. Attend relevant Scientific Societies meetings/Conferences, and develop summaries of key messages for use within the Company - such as key areas of scientific/company interest, new trends in diagnosis, monitoring and treatments in the TA, etc.
- Support sales/marketing/internal team areas to develop their scientific and technical expertise through the delivery of scientific update presentations.
- Provide external experts and internal medical/clinical teams with scientific/technical support for publications of scientific/ medical interest. Support the development and review of promotional material in collaboration with the Commercial teams and Medical colleagues by all relevant regulations and industry voluntary codes of practice.
- Ensure adherence of all activities to company and regulatory requirements as well as industry voluntary codes of practice.
- Provide specialized medical/scientific information support to the commercial teams in defense of the brands, including response to complaints and initiation of complaints.
- Support Medical and Commercial Teams with the provision of expert Medical Information and advice, including support for continuing education. Support the provision of scientific information services to Healthcare professionals and consumers.
**Qualifications** Experience that will help you get started**
- Experience in developing and maintaining expert knowledge for the assigned therapeutic area, and in medical research in general.
- Solid knowledge of the pharmaceutical setting and the role of Medical Affairs in advancing the medical and scientific objectives of a pharmaceutical company.
- Demonstrated expertise in the scientific methods applied to clinical research and current legislative/regulatory controls applicable to this research.
- Excellent written and spoken communication and presentation skills, with a demonstrated ability to devel
📌 Medical Scientific Liaison - Neuroscience
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