Medical Director/Scientific Director, Medical Affairs - Precision Medicine
Posted Aug 11, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Sep 22, 2026
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About your past
You would cultivate relationships with expert pathologists and pathology societies. What do pathologists want from a pharmaceutical medical affairs team?
What they are checking: Understanding of an audience that medical affairs often neglects.
Tell me about working with a commercial team where the medical and commercial views of the evidence differed.
What they are checking: Holding the medical line while sitting on an integrated brand team.
What would you do
You would build relationships with diagnostic partners, academic labs, community labs and reference labs. How do those four differ in what they need from you?
What they are checking: Whether they understand the diagnostic landscape as distinct constituencies.
How would you prepare a medical affairs organization for a companion diagnostic launch in the year before it happens?
What they are checking: Pre-launch planning, named as a duty for upcoming launches.
A key opinion leader publicly questions the utility of a biomarker you support. How do you handle it?
What they are checking: Scientific engagement with disagreement rather than avoidance or defensiveness.
This is posted at either Medical Director or Scientific Director level, must be based at Mettawa on a three-day hybrid schedule, and sits inside AbbVie's oncology portfolio. What would you want clarified about level and scope?
What they are checking: That they noticed the dual title and will ask what determines which one they get.
About the work
This role leads United States medical strategy for indications that depend on a companion diagnostic. How does a companion diagnostic change the medical affairs job compared to an ordinary oncology indication?
What they are checking: Real precision medicine understanding — testing rates, turnaround, lab capability.
What actually stops an eligible patient from being tested and identified for a targeted therapy?
What they are checking: Grasp of the real-world testing gap, which is the core problem this role exists to solve.
You would develop a biomarker and companion diagnostic evidence generation plan. Walk me through identifying the evidence gaps that matter most.
What they are checking: Evidence strategy rather than study enthusiasm.
You would act as the medical affairs lead on the integrated brand team. Where is the boundary between medical and promotional activity in practice?
What they are checking: The compliance boundary, which this role sits directly on.
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