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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 . on X , Facebook , Instagram , YouTube , LinkedIn and Tik Tok .
Job Description
Purpose :
This position leads strategic development of behavioral science initiatives with cross functional stakeholders in support of health literacy activities for AbbVie Patient Safety to promote clinical trial safety excellence and safe medication use. This includes developing original research protocols to evaluate patient safety data from medication errors, product complaints, and non-serious adverse events with use of AbbVie products in clinical development and post-market to devise strategies to systemically reduce the incidence of medication errors and improve adherence. This position will act as a health literacy expert for the Product Safety Teams, Medical Device Safety, Area PV Product Leads and other functions on the application of health literacy and human factors. This position will be included in strategic decision making on AbbVie products plans to demonstrate real world safety and usability, including presenting to senior management.
Responsibilities :
- Lead cross-functional teams in the development of novel health literacy programs in collaboration with PSTs, Clinical Sciences, CDO and other AbbVie functions.
- Develop strategy for human-centered design (health literacy activities) and safety assessments to product teams and leadership to inform on necessary medication error reduction.
- Evaluate multiple patient level data from multiple sources (clinical trials, post-marketing, product complaints, usability studies) to identify potential gaps that can impact patient safety and develop appropriate mitigations.
- Utilizes expert judgment to determine the impact of the safety issue on the products benefit-risk profile, including participating in use risk analyses, health literacy evaluations and human factors studies to inform product and safety information design.
- Lead Patient Safety participation in key product safety activities including clinical trial lay summaries, human factors summaries of known use errors, and health literacy evaluations of patient-facing materials
- Synthesize evolving global regulatory obligations on medication errors to determine the need for prospective safety data to support new product submissions; work with Asset Strategy Teams to ensure product submission success
- Leads patient-focused drug development and safety-related activities/initiatives for Patient Safety
This role will be hybrid with days onsite in Lake County, IL.
Qualifications
- Degree in a Health Sciences (e.g., Pharmacy, Epidemiology, Nursing); o Bachelors + 6 years clinical/pharma or safety work experience o Masters or doctorate + 2-3 years clinical/pharma or safety work experience (e.g. MPH, PharmD, PhD, or Masters in a Health Science)
- Demonstrated ability to serve as an expert in behavioral science to cross-functional colleagues by soliciting input and providing strategic guidance
- Advanced training/knowledge of human-centered design and development applied during the pharmaceutical product life cycle which includes conducting clinical trials, scientific strategy and operations management for the planning, execution and reporting of clinical development programs, regulatory requirements for submission, product launch and post marketing support
- Proficient in pharmacovigilance regulations, guidelines, qualitative research and company standard operating procedures Demonstrated effectiveness in working in a multidisciplinary, matrix team situation
- Effective oral and written communication skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Proficient in qualitative research methods Able to work independently with minimal direct supervision
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.
AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
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