Director, Medical Affairs

Role Overview

• Serve as a medical authority and strategic partner across Abbott HF programs, contributing expert clinical insight throughout the product lifecycle.
• Provide medical leadership and expert opinion across product development, clinical research, post‑market surveillance, quality, and compliance activities.
• Develop and maintain medical assessments, including medical platform documents, health hazard assessments, and risk/benefit evaluations.
• Serve as the medical representative on risk evaluation and investigation teams, contributing clinical judgment to quality and safety initiatives.
• Support clinical research activities, including Investigator‑Initiated Studies (IIS) and Research Grant programs, with regional responsibility.
• Provide medical input to regulatory, quality, and field communications, including technical bulletins, customer letters, and quality directives.
• Partner with commercial and marketing teams by providing appropriate medical insight for promotional activities in accordance with regulatory and compliance standards.
• Engage directly with customers, investigators, and internal stakeholders on medical and scientific questions, including appropriately documented off‑label discussions.
• Contribute to professional education programs, scientific exchange, and congress activity.
• Assist the Chief Medical Officer with key opinion leader (KOL) engagement and interactions with professional societies and external stakeholders.
• Support new product development by providing medical input on clinical strategy, usability, and patient impact.

Requirements

• MD.
• Minimum 5 years of clinical experience, including meaningful exposure to cardiovascular medicine.
• Heart‑failure–focused clinical experience is highly desirable.
• Strong scientific communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage credibly with clinicians, researchers, and internal partners.
• Ability to work effectively in a matrixed, cross‑functional environment.
• Up to 70% travel is expected, primarily for clinical, scientific, and stakeholder engagement.

Benefits

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• The Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit
• an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.