Director, Medical Affairs

🕒 May 1

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $171.3k - $342.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Abbott

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1888

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🧬 Biotechnology

💊 Pharmaceuticals

Healthcare Insurance • Biotechnology • Pharmaceuticals

Abbott is a global healthcare company committed to advancing medical technologies and improving lives around the world. It offers a broad range of leading products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutrition, and branded generic medicines. Abbott's innovations such as the FreeStyle Libre glucose monitoring systems and BinaxNOW rapid antigen tests are transforming diabetes management and COVID-19 response. Through its partnerships and initiatives, Abbott aims to foster health equity, improve access to healthcare, and address critical health challenges like malnutrition and infectious diseases. Abbott is also dedicated to sustainability and social responsibility, striving to make life-changing technologies accessible and affordable.

📋 Description

• You will serve as a medical authority and strategic partner across Abbott HF programs, contributing expert clinical insight throughout the product lifecycle. • Provide medical leadership and expert opinion across product development, clinical research, post‑market surveillance, quality, and compliance activities. • Develop and maintain medical assessments, including medical platform documents, health hazard assessments, and risk/benefit evaluations. • Serve as the medical representative on risk evaluation and investigation teams, contributing clinical judgment to quality and safety initiatives. • Support clinical research activities, including Investigator‑Initiated Studies (IIS) and Research Grant programs, with regional responsibility. • Provide medical input to regulatory, quality, and field communications, including technical bulletins, customer letters, and quality directives. • Partner with commercial and marketing teams by providing appropriate medical insight for promotional activities in accordance with regulatory and compliance standards. • Engage directly with customers, investigators, and internal stakeholders on medical and scientific questions, including appropriately documented off‑label discussions. • Contribute to professional education programs, scientific exchange, and congress activity. • Assist the Chief Medical Officer with key opinion leader (KOL) engagement and interactions with professional societies and external stakeholders. • Support new product development by providing medical input on clinical strategy, usability, and patient impact.

🎯 Requirements

• MD, with minimum 5 years of clinical experience, including meaningful exposure to cardiovascular medicine. • Heart‑failure–focused clinical experience is highly desirable. • Strong scientific communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage credibly with clinicians, researchers, and internal partners. • Ability to work effectively in a matrixed, cross‑functional environment. • Up to 70% travel is expected, primarily for clinical, scientific, and stakeholder engagement.

🏖️ Benefits

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of. • Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan. • An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution • Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree • 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.