AbbVie Posted July 20, 2026

Medical Director, Neuroscience, Global Patient Safety

North Chicago, IL Full-time
Pharmacovigilance Neuroscience Director

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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

Purpose:

To lead Product Safety Teams (PST) and support one or more products as the PST Lead, ensuring that the safety profile of one or more products is adequately monitored and characterized throughout the product lifecycle (e.g., surveillance, signal detection and evaluation, risk management, etc.). Interpreting regulations related to pharmacovigilance supporting all patient safety activities.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding and application of the pharmacology, chemistry and non-clinical toxicology to effectively conduct safety surveillance.

• Responsible for safety surveillance for pharmaceutical / biological / drug –device combination products

• Lead, oversee, and set the strategy for key pharmacovigilance documents, including but not limited to, medical safety assessments, regulatory responses, risk management plans, periodic safety reports (DSURs, PBRERs/PSURs, PADERs), etc.

• Lead and oversee safety surveillance and pharmacovigilance activities for products in clinical development and marketed products, applying current regulatory guidance as appropriate

• Analyze and interpret aggregate safety data and communicate these analysis and interpretation to cross-functional teams and regulatory authorities.

• Effectively and independently write, review, and present technical documents .

• Responsible for implementing risk management strategies for assigned products.

• Proactively engaging, inspiring, coaching and mentoring team and colleagues.

Qualifications

• MD / DO with 2+ years of residency with patient management experience.

• Master Public Health is preferred in addition to MD / DO, not required.

• 2-5 years of Pharmacovigilance / Clinical Development experience in the pharmaceutical industry.

• Effectively analyze and guide analysis of clinical data and epidemiological information.

• Effectively present recommendations / opinions in group environment both internally and externally.

• Write, review and provide input on technical documents.

• Work collaboratively and lead cross-functional teams.

• Ability to lead cross-functional teams in a collaborative environment.

• Fluency, both written and oral, in English.

• Evaluate and make independent decisions. Ability to work effectively in the situation of uncertainty and complexity, ability to multitask.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. ​

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.​

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
Director
Function
Pharmacovigilance
Therapeutic area
Neuroscience
Location
North Chicago, IL
Employment type
Full-time

How this role compares

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

We currently track 16 comparable Director Pharmacovigilance roles across 10 biopharma companies.

16Comparable roles tracked
11Currently active
10Companies hiring similar roles
7Countries represented

Salary context

2 of 16 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.

This roleSubject $160,500/yr – $305,000/yr
Lowest disclosed · Director, Patient Safety (MD) · Gilead Sciences, Inc. $243,100/yr – $314,600/yr
Highest disclosed · SERM Senior Scientific Director, Oncology · GlaxoSmithKline LLC $217,800/yr – $363,000/yr
Peer group range $278,850 – $290,400 (median $284,625)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 16 comparable roles

United States8
Canada2
Spain2
Japan1
Sweden1
United Kingdom1

+ 1 more countries

Seniority mix

16 of 16 peers have a known seniority level

Director12
Principal2
Senior Director2

Therapeutic area mix

4 of 16 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Oncology2
Neuroscience1
Vaccines & Infectious Disease1

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The closest matches from our peer group, ranked by how similar they are, not how well you'd qualify for them -- treat this as market context, not a guaranteed shortlist; a weak match is labeled as one below.

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60%similar
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60%similar
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How we calculate "similar"

No black box, no LLM guesswork: a deterministic score built from four normalized attributes. Here's this role's own peer group at different match levels, so you can see the mechanism, not just the result.

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.

100%
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Celgene - Summit (Corp) · Princeton, United States · Director
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
60%
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Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
60%
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Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
45%
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Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
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.