Medical Director - Santiago de Chile - Abbott Laboratories

    Abbott Laboratories
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    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 your 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.
    • Abbott EPD is the biggest pharmaceutical company in Chile, with the largest opportunities and recognition by the patients and physicians. We have a great portfolio with a lot of health solutions and alternatives, which are used massively around the country.
    • 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
    The Opportunity
    This position works out of Chile location in the Established Pharmaceuticals Division.

    Established Pharmaceutical Division is specialized and focused in pharma products that are able to provide different health solutions to the biggest health issues around the emerging markets, including Latinamerica.

    As the Medical Director, you'll have the chance to lead a group of engineers to build code for the mobile and Web Cloud platform, working closely with the product manager, customer support, and testing teams.

    You'll manage operations, collaborate with security and infrastructure, and support IT defects.

    What You'll Do

    • Development of the strategic plan for the Medical Department according to the vision and mission, marketing strategic objectives, and company policies, for better results in the technical information management.
    • Responsible of the budget management allocated to the Medical Department.
    • Lead the group of Medical Managers assuring that the Medical Affairs related requirements and processes, are conducted in adherence to the company policies.
    • Approval and supervision of Medical Managers activities related to training plans, promotional materials, events, dossiers, and protocols, assuring that they are in accordance with our corporative requirements, current regulations, and product strategy.
    • Lead the Pharmacovigilance, Clinical Trials, Medical Information and Sale Force training areas. Management of the Clinical Trials area, participating in the initiation, conduction, and results analysis of the scientificclinical programs and medical education activities. Act as a Pharmacovigilance ultimate accountable before the Regulatory Authority.
    • Manage groups of analysis of potential crisis risk (Risk Management), preventing or correcting events, supervising the maintenance of existent products, and the launching of new ones.
    • Provide administrative and technical guidance to other business areas.
    • Generate, training and communicate information that can be used by the different areas of the company, that support the maintenance or development of business units (brand teams), about better practices to be adopted.
    • Assure that Sale Force representatives are functionally trained to represent their corresponding business unit, guaranteeing the product strategies are based on and in accordance with adequate technical, scientific, and regulatory criteria.
    • Team management responsible, considering his/her area planning and strategic functions, personal development and attraction, and administrating related staff procedures.
    Required Qualifications

    • Education: Physician MD with a specialization, Master or Ph.
    D. Degree

    • 7 years of experience in a leadership role within the pharmaceutical industry with university teaching preferable
    • Demonstrated management and administrative skills
    • Good awareness and understanding of clinical trials and inspection readiness
    • Fluent in English and Spanish; writing and verbal communication


    Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life.

    Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

    Established Pharmaceuticals

    We are committed to bringing the benefits of our trusted medicines to more people in the world's fastest-growing countries.

    Our broad portfolio of high-quality and differentiated branded generic medicines reaches across multiple therapeutic areas including gastroenterology, women's health, cardiometabolic, pain management/central nervous system, and respiratory.