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Medical & Scientific Affairs Manager Middle East/ Eastern
About Abbott
Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.
Working at Abbott
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You will have access to:
- Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
- A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
- A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
The Opportunity
This position works out of our Egypt affiliate in the Rapid diagnostics division. In this division our rapid diagnostics solutions are helping address some of the world’s greatest healthcare challenges. Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories and clinics around the globe.
As the Medical & Scientific Affairs Manager Middle East/ Eastern Europe , you’ll have the chance to upports the strategy of enhancing Abbott Rapid Diagnostics (ARDx) Medical & Scientific leadership within the Middle East and Eastern Europe Regions.
What You’ll Do
- Supports commercial organizations with Medical & Scientific input, customer interactions and scientific presentations
- Leads efforts to define and implement new medical strategies for the (applicable business area) e.g.;
- Lateral Flow Infectious Disease assays and molecular product area.
- Executes annual plan.
- Identifies and establishes relationships with opinion leaders involved in disease states or technical initiatives.
- Identifies sites; negotiates contracts; writes study protocols; monitors study progress; analyses results and works with investigators to publish papers by ARDx.
- Work and publications must be accepted as medically important and useful in moving accepted science
- forward and/or influencing medical policy.
- Prepares medical posters and abstracts and presents at key professional meetings around the world.
- Part of cross functional team involved in developing patient and physician education materials.
- Works with R&D scientists to identify and evaluate markers for new disease areas or product improvements, technologies and intellectual properties.
- Acts as a liaison between Customers/Quality/Regulatory and technical organizations when medical /scientific issues arise.
- Must comply with and enforce all OEC guidelines.
- Designs and manages Abbott-initiated and investigator-initiated scientific studies
- Analyses results of scientific studies and produces publications and conference presentations
- Builds relationships with key opinion leaders and applies their input to enhance study design and protocols, as well as product requirements and product feasibility
- Assures that the scientific research program meets scientific and business objectives
- Partners across the business on technical, scientific, marketing, commercial, and quality programs and initiatives
- Partner across the business to address on market product issues
- Supports R&D with input to product development and performance
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in one of the following areas:
- A qualification as a registered Doctor or PhD or Pharmaci
Preferred Experience
- 5 years Medical Affairs management experience.
- 2-4 years business unit or general management experience.
- Knowledge of regulations and standards affecting IVDs and Biologics.
- Must have previously developed external relationships with key scientists or medical professionals.
- Industry, product and customer knowledge required
- Must have strong interpersonal skills
- Good communication skills
- Medical writing skills.
- Demonstrated leadership capabilities
- Excel
- Statistical software
Apply Now
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