Director, Clinical Pharmacology - South San Francisco, United States - AbbVie

AbbVie

Verified Company

South San Francisco, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter

Description

Company Description
Purpose

Describe the primary goals, objectives or functions or outputs of this position.

Communicates/presents key Clinical Pharmacology information/strategy to senior and executive management, regulatory agencies, and external peers. Supports strategic planning for drug development activities and projects to achieve departmental strategies, goals, and objectives. Utilizes scientific expertise to provide appropriate interpretation of data and relates implications of results to management. Serves as liaison to other departments/divisions for any study/project needs. Understands linkages across businesses and understands the impact of business decisions and solutions. May lead teams within Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics and accountable for effective performance of the teams.

Responsibilities:

Leads Clinical Pharmacology/PK/PD activities and multiple major projects. Assists R&D senior management in the selection of action plans that best meets drug development business objectives.
Identifies issues and help with issue resolution. Conducts risk assessments and assists in development of contingency plans. Assures project remains in alignment with strategic objectives.
Provides overall timelines to assess portfolio opportunities. Negotiates with other functional areas on project outcomes and deliverables to meet conflicting demands (time, cost, quality/performance).
Provides scientific and strategic consultation to R&D, Regulatory, and all levels of management on critical decisions and development plans.
Responsible for evaluating technical, scientific aspects of all AbbVie projects along with CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY management. Reviews clinical protocols and scientific reports for regulatory filings and anticipates regulatory questions. Leads CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY regulatory documents writing, submission and response to Regulatory agency comments.
Independently conducts due diligence assessments, summarizes results and represents CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY on business development teams.
Identifies and develops process improvement initiatives and reviews recommendations with management for approval and sponsorship.
Contribute to development of departmental goals. Influences strategic PK/PD decisions for the department.
Performs functions and responsibilities with the highest regard for quality and timeliness. Maintains uptodate knowledge of PK/PD data analysis, modeling and simulation methods and software.
May manage personnel including development, mentoring, and effective delegation.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

PhD with typically 7+ years of experience or Pharm D with typically 9+ years of experience in a relevant field, MS or equivalent education with typically 15+ years of experience; BS or equivalent education and typically 17+ years of experience; (*relevant field includes experience with PK, PBPK, PK-PD, Pharmacometrics or systems pharmacology, Drug metabolism/Transporters)
Excellent interpersonal skills
Knowledge and experience in multiple therapeutic and/or functional areas
Experience across range of development phases
Knowledge of AbbVie and Pharma drug development processes
Must have demonstrated leadership competencies in PK/PD, Biopharmaceutics, and Pharmacometric activities from planning, implementation through completion across multiple projects
Scientific project leadership or related experience
Project management skills such as scope management, progress tracking/driving as well as time management
Participates in initiatives and advancement of CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY
Key Leadership Competencies:
Knows the business and the crossfunctional contributions needed to deliver results
Persistent and resilient finds the way to move good ideas forward
Acts respectfully yet courageously
Connects unrelated concepts, generates original or unique ideas
Influences colleagues to achieve crossfunctional alignment
Communicates openly and honestly with all colleagues
Manages conflict and difficult conversations in a constructive transparent way

Additional Information

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 shortterm incentive programs.
This job is eligible to participate in our longterm incentive programs.

Note:
No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested,