Medical Science Liaison - Oncology (Solid Tumours)
Melbourne, VIC
- Function
- : Research & Development
- Job Type
- : Full-time
Job ID : R00131144
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.
AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer, and dedicated to fostering an inclusive, flexible, and supportive workplace that values and respects every individual. We are committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie's policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability.
Job DescriptionThe Medical Science Liaison (MSL) - Oncology serves to advance science and standards of care for patients through their engagement with healthcare professionals and other stakeholders within the healthcare system. Through scientific engagement, MSLs provide credible, practical and clinically relevant information and solutions to enable both the effective and safe use of AbbVie products. Collectively, as members of Global Medical Affairs, they work to make a remarkable impact on patient care around the world. In this pivotal role, you will be working closely with key stakeholders to build understanding within ovarian cancer and related fields such as pathology and diagnostics.
MSLs work to communicate information and facilitate dialogue about AbbVie's marketed products, and compounds in development, in a strictly scientific, non-promotional manner, and in full compliance with applicable national laws and regulations, guidelines, codes of conduct, AbbVie's policies and procedures and accepted standards of best practice. This is a unique opportunity to work with AbbVie, recognised on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For list for the 8th year in a row in 2025!
This function is field based with up to 80% of the time will be spent field-based.
QualificationsProvide scientific and technical leadership to ensure professional and credible relationships with thought leaders and external experts of strategic importance to AbbVie.Ensure a strong medical and scientific presence for AbbVie in key academic centres by facilitation of research and educational initiatives, while supporting requests for medical and scientific information on products or areas of therapeutic interest to AbbVie.Serve as a point of contact within the Medical Affairs team for thought leaders and external experts within an assigned geographic area in order to satisfy their needs for scientific knowledge in a therapeutic area and, when requested, relevant AbbVie medicines, to support their safe, effective and appropriate use.Deliver credible presentations on scientific matters to physicians, individually or in groups (meetings, clinical sessions, etc.), where requested.Attend relevant scientific meetings and conferences. Collaborate with internal stakeholders to develop summaries of key data and other scientifically relevant information to inform AbbVie strategic priorities and initiatives.Provide key thought leaders / external experts and internal medical, market access and clinical teams with scientific and technical support for publications of scientific or medical interest.Assist in the site selection, initiation, oversight and follow up of assigned clinical studies and medical projects initiated within the therapeutic area of responsibility (e.g. post marketing clinical activities such as registry / database projects, epidemiological surveys, post-authorisation studies (phase IV). All such activities must comply with applicable local laws, guidelines, codes of practice, SOPs, and AbbVie R&D SOPs.Act as the point of contact with thought leaders to facilitate investigator-initiated study (IIS) ideas and requests for support to the local and global medical teams as appropriate.Support internal teams such as sales and marketing and members of the Affiliate Brand Team to develop their scientific and technical expertise through the delivery of scientific update presentations.Participate in the selection process to identify appropriately qualified thought leaders the company would wish to engage in collaborative efforts - such as potential research collaborations, or educational (e.g., congress, symposia) and advisory roles; while ensuring a high level of scientific or educational integrity in these collaborative efforts.Facilitate medical and scientific field intelligence - for example, competitor research and medical strategies, educational activities - and communicate, where appropriate, within the company, including cross-functional gap assessments.Ensure that all activities and interac