AbbVie

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

Reporting to Product Safety Manager, the responsibilities of the incumbent will be as follows:

• Manage all post-marketing adverse events through follow-up call intake, documentation, and case processing.
• Manage all clinical adverse events and submit them to local authority and ethics committees if needed.
• Following local regulations and global guidelines on pharmacovigilance.
• Maintain PV archive and inventory up to date.
• Routine business contribution to brand teams.
• Participate in audit/inspection readiness activities.
• Support quarterly out-of-office testing and annual BCP testing.
• Respond to requests for medical information following local procedures.
• Provide up-to-date, accurate, factual, balanced, and timely scientific/medical information in response to unsolicited inquiries from healthcare professionals and patients.
• Report adverse events and product complaints that arise from Medical Information interactions within the required timelines.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders and other departments.

Qualifications

• University degree in medicine or pharmacy.
• Preferably 1 year experience in Pharmacovigilance and Medical Information.
• Excellent written and spoken communication and presentation skills.
• Fluency in written and oral English is essential in order to facilitate communications with Pharmacovigilance and Patient Safety, Regional Medical, Global Medical Information team and other headquarters functions.
• Fluency in written and oral local language is a requirement in order to facilitate communications within the affiliate medical department, and with the National Regulatory Authority.
• Strong commitment to compliance with the relevant rules and procedures, and to scientific quality and integrity.
• Sound judgment, strong planning, and organizational skills, and the ability to get things done. Demonstrated a strong sense of urgency.

Additional Information

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.