AbbVie Posted August 7, 2026

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Shenyang, Liaoning Full-time
Clinical Development

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About this opportunity

Company Description

About AbbVie

AbbVie'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 including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at  www.abbvie.com . Follow @abbvie on  LinkedIn,   Facebook ,  Instagram ,  X  and  YouTube.

Job Description

Advance AbbVie's pipeline by striving for excellence in clinical research, turning science into medicine for our patients and leveraging new advanced capabilities to drive industry leading performance.

Partners with the investigator and site staff for meaningful and effective engagements positioning AbbVie as the choice in clinical trials.

Focus on site clinical research that ensures appropriate conduct of the trial while driving improvement in data integrity, compliance, overall study performance and customer experience.

Responsibilities

List up to 10 main responsibilities for the job. Include information about the accountability and scope.

Considered as the primary point of contact for the investigative site, provides contextual information on the clinical trials, connects stakeholder to the investigative sites and strengthens AbbVie’s positioning.

Aligns, trains and motivates the site staff and principal investigator under supervision on the goals of the clinical trial program, protocol, and patient treatment principles for the trial ensuring a trusted partnership.

Conducts site evaluation, site training, routine, and site closure monitoring activities under supervision, in compliance to the protocol and monitoring plans and accordance with applicable regulations, Good Clinical Practices (GCPs), ICH Guidelines, AbbVie Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and to quality standards in conducting clinical research, ensuring safety and protection of study subjects.

Customize site engagement strategy for assigned study (ies) under supervision. Gather local/site insights and utilize site engagement tools such as the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool, to report/track progress and measure impact of that strategy.

Fundamental level of competency connecting the study protocol, scientific principles and clinical trial requirements to the day-to-day clinical trial execution activities. Evaluate and ensure effective recruitment and retention techniques/plans based on the patient disease journey.

Develop solid knowledge of therapeutic area, asset and clinical landscape / patient journey to enable successful patient recruitment and overall protocol compliance.

Responsible for continuous risk-assessment proactively, and in collaboration with Central Monitoring team, monitor activities conducted by clinical sites to detect early overall study performance or patient safety issues. Ability to think critically to resolve site risk signals while having robust understanding of site processes to drive study execution.

Ensures preventative and corrective action plans are put into place, as needed, to mitigate risk and promote compliance using a customer centric approach.

Identifies, evaluates and recommends new/potential investigators/sites under supervision and support from more experienced CRAs.

Ensures quality of data submitted from study sites and assures timely submission of data, including appropriate reporting and follow-up for all safety events by site personnel.

Ensures audit and regulatory inspection readiness at assigned clinical site at all times.

Manages investigator payments as per executed contract obligations, as applicable.

Qualifications

Appropriate tertiary qualification in health related disciplines (Medical, Scientific, Nursing) preferred or experience or equivalent work experience.

Clinically related experience, preferably in clinical research coordinating or data management.

Knowledge of appropriate therapeutic area indications is preferred with the ability to understand and apply scientific concepts as they relate to the conduct of clinical trials.

Knowledge on existing and emerging local regulatory and legal requirements, ICH/GCP Guidelines and applicable policies.

Able to work collaboratively and cross functionally to develop and sustain working relationships.

Demonstrate planning and organizational skills and the ability to work effectively and efficiently in a dynamic environment with competing projects and deadlines

Ability to leverage technology, tools and resources to provide customer centric support based on the health of the site. Ability to use functional expertise with appropriate guidance, leverage critical thinking skills and apply good judgement to address clinical site issues.

Interpersonal skills with strong written, verbal, active listening and presentation skills, with ability to establish and leverage site relationships and trusted partnerships through engagement, motivation, and training.

Acts with integrity in accordance with AbbVie code of business conduct and leadership values. Self-motivated individual focused on delivering timely and quality outcomes in a fast-paced environment.

Additional Information

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community.  Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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Job details

Seniority
Not listed
Function
Clinical Development
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Shenyang, Liaoning
Employment type
Full-time

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Clinical Development role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 709 comparable Clinical Development roles across 70 biopharma companies.

709Comparable roles tracked
615Currently active
70Companies hiring similar roles
36Countries represented

Salary context

218 of 709 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function. This posting doesn't list a seniority level, so peers aren't narrowed by seniority either -- the range below may span more levels than usual.

This roleSubject Not listed on this posting
Lowest disclosed · Research Technologist - Clinical Pathology · AbbVie $58,656/yr – $110,500/yr
Highest disclosed · Global Clinical Head- Executive Director · AstraZeneca $331,874/yr – $497,810/yr
Peer group range $84,578 – $414,842 (median $259,448)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 709 comparable roles

United States325
India117
China35
United Kingdom35
Spain25
Poland21

+ 30 more countries

Seniority mix

577 of 709 peers have a known seniority level

Manager146
Director141
Senior91
Associate Director73
Associate48
Executive/VP33
Principal23
Senior Director21
Intern/Fellow/Postdoc1

Therapeutic area mix

154 of 709 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Oncology67
Immunology28
Cardiovascular / CVRM15
Neuroscience15
Respiratory13
Ophthalmology5
Dermatology & Aesthetics4
Vaccines & Infectious Disease4
Rare Disease2
Gastroenterology1

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How we calculate "similar"

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Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.

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Unmatched or unknown dimensions score exactly the same: 0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.