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

• Provide scientific publications writing/editing support to clinical pharmacokinetics teams, ensuring successful preparation of high-quality submission/presentation-ready documents at the direction of publication authors. Provide medical writing support for multiple assets across all therapeutic areas. Provide leadership and expertise on more complex topics/publications.

• Execute all activities related to the preparation of scientific publications (eg, clinical manuscripts, abstracts, posters, and oral presentations). Coordinate the review, approval, and other applicable activities related to the development of scientific publication projects.

• Interface with external experts (eg, physicians, other health care professionals) and staff from other functions (eg, Clinical, Statistics, Medical Affairs,) to resolve conflicting comments and ensure accurate and timely completion of scientific publications.

• Communicate deliverables needed, writing process, and timelines to team members. Provide direction and guidance to junior and external medical writers, as assigned, ensuring high-quality and timely work products and adherence to publications policies and procedures.

• Learn and apply knowledge of therapeutic areas and assets to scientific publishing projects. Perform literature searches, as needed, for drafting publication content. Interpret literature information and make recommendations for application to scientific publications.

• Understand, assimilate, and interpret sources of information with appropriate guidance/direction from authors. Interpret and explain data generated from a variety of sources, including internal and external studies, regulatory submission documents, research documentation, and charts, graphs, and tables, and verify that results are consistent with study data. Convert relevant data and information into a form that meets publication needs and journal/congress requirements, ensuring required documentation is obtained.

• Explain data in a manner consistent with the target audience of the journal or congress. Confirm completeness of information to be presented. Understand/comply with appropriate guidances, conventions, proper grammar usage, and correct format requirements per journal/congress guidelines, and follow applicable company publication policy and procedures.

• Identify and propose solutions to resolve issues and questions arising during the writing/review process. Challenge conclusions when necessary. Independently resolve document content issues and questions. Gather feedback from others and revise drafts accordingly.

• Act as a subject matter expert regarding internal processes and publications best practices. Learn and apply knowledge of therapeutic area to scientific publishing projects within and across compounds. Mentor and provide guidance to more junior medical writers or external vendors/agencies.

• Contribute to department initiatives/activities to improve publications practices and processes. Stay current on industry and company requirements and best practices as they relate to scientific publications.

Qualifications

• This position will be required to sit on-site 3 days / week*

• Bachelor's degree required. MS/PhD/PharmD preferred. Professional credentials/certification (eg, AMWA) a plus.

• 4+ years of medical/scientific writing experience in the pharmaceutical/healthcare industry, academia, or other relevant industry.

• Expert knowledge of US and international regulations, requirements, and guidances associated with scientific publications.

• Excellent communication skills and attention to detail; ability to assimilate and interpret scientific content and translate information for appropriate audiences.

• Knowledge of pharmacokinetics and statistical concepts preferred.

• Excellent working knowledge of software programs (MS Office, Endnote, SigmaPlot, Adobe Acrobat, etc.), electronic document storage systems, and literature search engines/databases.

• Experience working in collaborative, cross-functional team environments; strong project management skills.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

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• 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 short-term incentive programs. ​

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs​

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Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

AbbVie 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.