Job Title: Medical Manager, Abbott Diabetes Care (BENELUX)
Location: Headquarters in Belgium
Primary Function:
1. Interact with key stakeholders in the medical community, providing training and scientific advice on Abbott Diabetes Care monitoring solutions.
2. Serve as a subject matter expert in medical practice and patient management, offering medical support to the commercial organization.
3. Contribute to the design of local clinical trials, ensuring meaningful differentiation of Abbott Diabetes Care products, and publish results in collaboration with local Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs).
4. Establish partnerships and consulting arrangements with leading medical professionals in diabetes care to support business needs.
5. Report to the Director of Medical Affairs and work closely with senior in-country leadership.
Major Responsibilities:
6. Support the Medical Director in all medical and clinical affairs work streams, providing input, medical oversight, and project leadership.
7. Execute Abbott Diabetes Care’s training and continuous medical education activities.
8. Collaborate with the global organization to support and drive global scientific projects and new medical/clinical initiatives targeting the medical community.
9. Build trusted and strategic relationships with the local medical community in diabetes care, identifying partnering opportunities.
10. Develop medical arguments to support the use of our products by healthcare professionals in BENELUX.
11. Represent Abbott Diabetes Care’s interests in regional medical, industry, and governmental organizations.
12. Be a subject matter expert in Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and Evidence-Based Medicine (EbM) recommendations on Blood Glucose Monitoring (BGM) and Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM).
Minimum Education:
13. Medical Degree
14. Clinical background in diabetology/endocrinology.
Minimum Experience/Training:
15. Hands-on experience in managing patients with diabetes.
16. Basic knowledge of clinical research, medical risk management, and/or medical device regulations is preferred.
17. Team-oriented with the confidence, maturity, and integrity to work effectively as a member of a leading medical device company, with customers and suppliers.
18. High personal integrity and ethics.
19. Excellent communication and organizational skills, comfortable managing public events and speaking in public.
20. Results and action-oriented, driven to excel, and capable of inspiring others to achieve excellence. Accepts accountability for team results and provides clear direction with input from others.
21. Required languages: English, Dutch, and French.