Director, Medical & Scientific Learning Excellence (Neuroscience)

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 atwww.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie onTwitter,Facebook,Instagram,YouTubeandLinkedIn.

Job Description

The Director, Medical & Scientific Learning Excellence (MSLE) will work in close collaboration with the relevant stakeholders from across Medical Affairs and Health Economics Research (MA&HEOR) to develop and execute comprehensive learning and training resources on disease state, product, and treatment landscape. For assigned/prioritized therapeutic area(s), indication(s), and asset(s), the Director will incorporate adult learning principles and leverage evidence-based cognitive learning principles to develop robust learning plans and curricula for Global Pipeline, US, and International teams within MA&HEOR.

The Director is expected to lead planning, development, and delivery of scientific learning for internal stakeholders across MA&HEOR. Building and establishing strong partnerships with key internal and external stakeholders to advance internal medical and scientific knowledge will be key to the role. They will be responsible for the development of learning content and experiences across the product(s) lifecycle phases. Deliverables will include self-paced learning modules, live and virtual training engagement, and tools to enhance scientific knowledge retention. An ability to work collaboratively within a matrix organization is critically important to successfully develop and deploy the valued and impactful scientific learning in a consistent and efficient way that maximizes synergies and minimizes duplication across MA&HEOR.

The MSLE Director will contribute to the overall vison, strategy, and approach to medical and scientific learning across the indications and assets that fall under their Therapeutic Area (TA). The MSLE Director will be expected to collaborate with their peers to drive alignment and consistency for medical and scientific learning outputs.

The Director will be expected to develop strong and effective partnerships with colleagues from within the broader MSLE team. In addition, it will be imperative that close working relationships are forged with relevant colleagues from international and US commercial learning teams, as appropriate. The Director will drive advancement of medical and scientific learning, from onboarding through ongoing learning, for the purpose of achieving and maintaining expert level scientific knowledge reflective of the associated medical strategy for their assigned area(s) of therapeutic and asset focus.

Responsibilities

• Leads overarching evolution, strategy, and execution of medical and scientific learning resources and learner experiences for a specific TA
• Collaborates with identified individual(s) within designated therapeutic team to gain clarity on TA learning needs and develop Integrated Learning Plans (ILP) aligned to these needs
• Utilizes adult learning principles during the planning, stakeholder alignment, and build-out of medical and scientific learning content for disease state, product, and treatment landscape
• Partners with relevant colleagues involved in medical and scientific learning from across Global Pipeline, US, and International (including areas and affiliates) to ensure relevance of learning deliverables and consistency of offerings across the various MA&HEOR groups
• Ensures timely and efficient development and delivery of medical and scientific learning content/training related to disease state, product (including pipeline and enterprise-critical assets), and treatment landscape
• Orchestrates, develops, and executes a learning path using a blended learning approach which includes self-paced interactive modules, live (in-person and virtual) workshops, multimedia (e.g., podcasts/videos) and knowledge retention tools, leveraging a common learning platform (The Academy)
• Aligns and works collaboratively with the Leadership Development and Capabilities team to ensure a synthesized approach that reflects a combination of scientific and capabilities focus within the onboarding curriculum
• Pilots and leads innovative new learning techniques, digital and virtual technologies and modalities to advance scientific learning curricula across entire MSLE team
• Reviews and critically assesses the impact of deliverables (learning plans, learning content, learner engagement) to gain insights that will inform and enhance future outputs
• Expected to be able to travel up to 20% of time, as required by the role and areas of responsibility

Qualifications

• Education: Scientific / Clinical / Medical educational background required
• Advanced Scientific Degree (e.g., PhD, PharmD, MD, or NP) required
• Professional experience: At least 8 years, including 5 years of prior MSL or related pharmaceutical industry experience (clinical experience highly preferred)
• Excellent planning and organizational skills to demonstrate leadership and initiative
• Strong scientific background, with the ability to critically review and analyze scientific literature in an objective manner and concisely summarize and communicate key information
• Experience applying learning principles and creating innovative scientific learning content
• Experience creating interactive content of various media types with e-learning software experience
• Strong individual project management skills and works collaboratively with vendors to meet project and event timelines to deliver high-quality materials
• Creative and strategic thinker possessing excellent written, oral, and presentation skills
• Goal-oriented with a strong sense of urgency and the ability to address complex problems across projects
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and interface in a dynamic environment across departments
• Strong knowledge of Pharma regulatory and healthcare compliance guidelines
• Advanced MS PowerPoint and MS Word as well as basic MS Excel proficiency required

Additional Information

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• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Companybelieves ingood faith it will pay for this role at the timeof this posting based on the job grade for this position.Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, andwemay ultimatelypay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in thefuture.

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),medical/dental/visioninsurance and 401(k) to eligibleemployees.

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentiveprograms.

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentiveprograms

Note: No amount of payis considered to bewages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, anddeterminable.The amount and availability of any bonus,commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form ofcompensation and benefitsthat are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole andabsolutediscretion unless and until paid andmay be modified at the Companys sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable law.

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Location: Mettawa, IL, US

Posted Date: 11/23/2024