Senior Medical Operations Associate

About the role

AbbVie is seeking a Senior Medical Operations Associate for a 12-month Max Term Contract to join its Medical Affairs team in the new Sydney CBD offices. The role combines evidence generation, study project management and scientific publications across Australia and New Zealand, taking ownership of multi-country observational studies and acting as a key point of expertise for affiliate publication activities.

Key responsibilities

• Serve as subject matter expert for multi-country observational studies, ensuring compliance with local regulations and SOPs and guiding study teams on audit/inspection readiness
• Manage selected affiliate-led studies as Study Project Manager, covering start-up, ethics submissions, site agreements, site budgets and contracts, EDC training and data management reporting
• Provide input to the evidence generation planning cycle, mentor associates and help build local dashboards and metrics
• Act as affiliate SME for scientific publications: run the publication planning process, complete submitters in the AbbVie publications system (CLEAR), run QC checks and coordinate publication activities
• Support monthly dashboards and metrics, and take part in ad hoc duties as requested

Required profile

• Bachelor degree in Pharmacy or a life science-related discipline or higher
• Experience in the pharmaceutical industry and general knowledge of drug development and clinical research
• Expertise in project management and budgeting, with strong internal customer orientation
• Excellent verbal and written communication, attention to detail and problem-solving skills

Required skills

• Intermediate-level Microsoft Office
• ICH GCP knowledge
• Familiarity with trial management tools such as TESLA/SPIRIT, VEEVA Vault and CLEAR