Job Description:

The Quantitative Insights Lab (QuIL) within the Quantitative Medicine and Genomics organization at AbbVie is seeking a Scientific Director who will lead clinical and real world evidence (RWE) strategy, execution, and innovation within AbbVie’s Quantitative Insights Lab (QuIL). This role is both a hands-on scientific contributor and a team leader, driving integration of complex human data—including multi-omics—with clinical, EHR and biobank health datasets. This position is critical for generating integrated evidence that directly informs the R&D pipeline decisions, ensuring scientific and clinical impact across AbbVie’s therapeutic areas. The incumbent will design and implement robust studies, foster data-driven decision-making through advanced analytics and AI, and advance translational research in a highly matrixed and agile environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as scientific and technical lead for clinical and real-world evidence initiatives, contributing subject matter expertise to organizational strategy, project design, and execution.
• Lead and enable agile, cross-functional teams for integrated data projects to inform pipeline and strategic decisions, acting as either/both an individual scientific contributor and project leader
• Oversee the curation, design and analysis of patient cohorts that leverage clinical, multi-omic, EHR, biobank phenotypic and real-world data to generate actionable insights for drug discovery, biomarker identification, and patient stratification.
• Collaborate closely across functions—including other RWD teams—to harmonize data workflows and methodologies and align evidence generation with pipeline needs.
• Communicate findings and strategy effectively to internal leadership, external collaborators, and cross-functional partners.
• Stay abreast of latest methodologies and best practices for real world data, EHR analytics, multi-omic data integration, and related AI-driven approaches.
• Play a key role as a member of the QuIL leadership team, helping to shape QuIL’s strategic direction and supporting broader organizational initiatives.