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 Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Job Description

Joining AbbVie means you will be part of a team of outstanding professionals dedicated to making a remarkable impact on patients' lives. At AbbVie, we conduct ground-breaking science on a global scale every day. AbbVie Canada is one of the Best Workplaces in Canada.

When choosing your career path, choose to be remarkable.

AbbVie’s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines 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, vision care, virology, women’s health , and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.

We have an opportunity for a National Biomarker Medical Science Liaisons (MSL) to join our Medical Affairs Oncology team. In this exciting role, you will develop and nurture relationships, as well as advance our scientific credibility with established and emerging external experts (EEs) in the area of Oncology and clinical biomarkers. This national position is based in Toronto or Montreal and will report to the Medical Manager, Solid Tumours.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain key scientific knowledge for credible dissemination of biomarker information to external experts and healthcare professionals.

• Provide scientific support and maintain relationships with external biomarker experts and key academic centers.

• Deliver credible scientific presentations on biomarker-related topics to healthcare professionals individually or in groups.

• Attend scientific meetings/conferences and develop summaries of key data presented.

• Collect and integrate diagnostic testing data from key centers/laboratories and share with internal stakeholders to support the development of strategic biomarker and medical plans.

• Plan, organize, and execute local, provincial, and national field activities with scientific content on biomarkers.

• Collaborate effectively with members of diagnostic test manufacturers to support relevant biomarker trainings for external stakeholders.

• Seek input from external experts on local testing practices and emerging diagnostic technologies.

• Ensure compliance with AbbVie Policies and Standards

Qualifications

Education/Experience Required:

• Doctorate, PharmD or MD is preferred. MSc degree in scientific related discipline and demonstrated medical affairs experience will also be considered.

• Previous experience in diagnostic areas or as an MSL is preferred (minimum of two years)

• Relevant Oncology/solid tumors and biomarker background is considered an asset.

• Solid understanding of the Canadian biomarker testing landscape.

• Knowledge of scientific methods applied to clinical research, biomarker testing implementation/validation, and the current legislative/regulatory controls.

• Ability to comprehensively learn new subject areas and environments.

• Keen interest in developing and maintaining expert knowledge for assigned therapeutic area/product and medical research in general.

Essential Skills & Abilities:

• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, etc.)

• Must be at ease with technology (the use of various tools/systems to perform day-to-day tasks).

• Travel required about 60% of the time.

• Valid driver’s license and passport.

Key in-Field Team (IFT) Competencies:

• Ability to understand the unmet needs of key stakeholders, make decisions that have an impact and execute the integration and assimilation of that information into the IFTs’ engagement approach.

• Ability to coordinate scientific/medical engagement efforts across stakeholders within a single account in order to develop interaction plans that are inline with the Scientific Interaction Plan (SIP) to achieve medical objectives.

• Effectively communicate, collaborate and incorporate the views of other in-field team members to optimize business objectives.

AbbVie strives to provide a French working environment for its employees in Quebec. Although as part of its francization program has taken all reasonable steps to avoid imposing the following requirement, advanced amount of knowledge of English / Fluency in English is an essential requirement for the position of Biomarker MSL, Solid Tumors including, but not limited to, for the following reasons:

• English speaking employees outside the province of Quebec.

• English speaking clients outside the province of Quebec.

• Anglophone region outside the province of Quebec.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and encourages women, Aboriginal people, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities to apply.

Additional Information

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.

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