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Medical Lead - SASS

Job in Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa
Listing for: AbbVie Inc
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-02-09
Job specializations:
  • Healthcare
    Healthcare Management, Healthcare Administration
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Overview

Abb Vie 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 Abb Vie, please visit us at  Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, You Tube, Linked In and Tik Tok.

PRIMARY FUNCTION/OBJECTIVE:

Act as member of the MEA Medical Affairs team. The Medical Lead will work with the Medical Affairs team in ensuring that Allergan Aesthetics, an Abb Vie Company, successfully supports and leads the market with respect to medical/scientific engagement interactions, and that Allergan Aesthetics is successful in the positioning of its portfolio of products vs. competitors. The role demands competency in practical aspects of patient care, and ability to use medical and scientific information to facilitate engagement of physicians and others in the clinical and basic science issues relevant to Allergan’s products.

The Medical Lead will be responsible for driving projects from concept to execution, and thus must be an innovative self-starter, who takes ownership of tasks and can work independently with direction from direct manager. The Medical Lead is responsible for developing and executing a clear and comprehensive Medical Affairs strategy for country/ cluster, aligned with international, APAC-MEA regional and country-level strategic plans.

The medical Lead will be responsible to plan medical budgets and execute the medical plan in line with budgets (tracking and monitoring the budgets), working close with line manager and the finance teams.

The Medical Lead should demonstrate our product value through internal and external stakeholder engagement and training based on clinical and scientific data. Is responsible for the management of collaborative relationships with national and regional opinion leaders to ensure alignment of professional opinion, particularly in areas of emerging science and forthcoming product developments. The Medical Lead is responsible for providing clinical and scientific based trainings to local commercial teams (based on therapeutic area as well as product related) as well as training to regional Medical Affairs teams.

The Medical Lead will provide support to the local Brand-team and country manager to provide clinical insight, technical expertise and scientific insight to ensure optimal patient outcomes. Also serving on the country leadership team.

The Medical Lead is expected to embrace a strong compliance mindset; structure and ways of working, while maintaining the highest standards of integrity to benefit the patients; consumers; customers and employees. The Medical Lead will provide oversight and local management of relationships with investigators undertaking studies under the remit of Global Aesthetics Medical Affairs (GAMA).

The Medical Lead should continue to drive an aspiration growth mindset and work closely with all cross-functional teams (including the local AMI; Brand-team; Finance-team and local leadership team).

The Medical Lead is responsible for cross-functional collaboration with the Regulatory;
Quality Assurance;
Medical Information;
Pharmacovigilance and Healthcare Compliance Departments to ensure business continuity and optimal patient outcomes.

The Medical Lead is responsible for supporting clinical development and launch pad teams and to ensure participation of EEMEA investigators into AA clinical development program. In addition, support any local RWE Generation initiatives (IIS’s; case studies; case series) initiated by local aesthetic opinion leaders.

Medical and Scientific Information

  • Local representative of GAMA activities.
  • Provides in-depth clinical and scientific information relating to Allergan products to internal staff and, on demand, to external customers.
  • Maintains an understanding of AA products and relevant therapeutics across portfolio

Planning and execution of Key Medical affairs programs and projects: work…

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