Senior Medical Science Liaison -- AR, LA, MS Region

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Opportunity

This position is a remote opportunity in the Abbott Diabetes Care Division. We are helping people with Diabetes lead healthier, happier lives.   As a global leader in diabetes care, Abbott is constantly working to deliver the highest quality products and unwavering support to our customers.  Consistent and accurate glucose monitoring is the foundation of any diabetes management plan, so we’re committed to continuous improvement in the way patients and professionals measure, track and analyze glucose levels. 

As a Senior Medical Science Liaison, you will be responsible for driving high impact medical and scientific engagement in support of Abbott Diabetes Care (ADC). This field based role strengthens ADC’s scientific leadership by delivering advanced scientific exchange, executing strategic territory planning, and generating measurable impacts and outcomes that influence Medical Affairs strategy.  Senior MSLs fulfill all core MSL duties while also leading complex initiatives, mentoring colleagues, shaping evidence generation priorities, and ensuring high quality insight generation that measurably advances ADC’s strategic objectives.  This is a field based opportunity.

What You’ll Do

• Provide national and regional scientific leadership by executing high impact initiatives with leading academic centers, clinical systems, and diabetes networks, resulting in measurable outcomes, evidence opportunities, and medical strategy execution.
• Demonstrate expert level regional and national territory planning, including a deep understanding of clinical trends, system priorities, emerging influencers, and unmet needs.
• Serve as a senior scientific expert and mentor, coaching MSL colleagues in advanced scientific exchange, territory strategy, KOL development, documentation, and insight quality—resulting in stronger team capability and measurable improvements in field execution.
• Lead or co lead high impact Medical Affairs projects, such as scientific training, publication planning, clinical research support, or process improvement, ensuring each initiative delivers defined outcomes and clear contributions to ADC objectives.
• Provide strategic medical leadership at scientific congresses, leading Medical Affairs execution, managing field deployment, presenting scientific data and producing post meeting reports that translate into actionable outcomes and strategic next steps.
• Act as a subject matter expert with comprehensive scientific knowledge, contributing to the development and refinement of scientific materials and ensuring consistent, high quality scientific communication across the organization.
•  Support and mentor ADC Fellows, ensuring structured learning, co-presentation opportunities, and progression toward measurable competency outcomes.
• Establish and maintain high impact scientific relationships with key thought leaders and external experts that measurably strengthen ADC’s scientific credibility and influence.
• Develop and execute a robust, compliant territory engagement plan that aligns with regional scientific needs and ADC priorities, demonstrating consistent delivery of measurable outcomes tied to Medical Affairs goals.
• Conduct high level scientific exchange with healthcare providers, managed care stakeholders, and advocacy groups, ensuring the information provided improves clinical understanding and leads to concrete educational or scientific outcomes.
• Deliver expert level scientific presentations tailored to audience needs, demonstrating mastery of therapeutic area content and resulting in improved scientific comprehension and actionable follow up.
• Capture, synthesize, and communicate high value field insights that directly influence strategic planning, evidence generation priorities, and cross functional alignment; ensure insights result in clear, documented impacts to organizational strategy.
• Represent ADC at scientific congresses, translating scientific interactions and emerging data into actionable insights and measurable outcomes that support strategy refinement and execution.
• Collaborate cross functionally while maintaining Medical Affairs independence, ensuring scientific accuracy and contributing to measurable improvements in cross functional readiness and execution.
• Complete administrative responsibilities in a timely and compliant manner, including documentation, reporting, insights, and training—all contributing to high quality field operations and measurable compliance outcomes.

Experience You’ll Bring

Required

• Terminal degree required: PhD, DNP, MD/DO, PharmD, or DMSc.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience
• Minimum 4 years of Medical Affairs experience in pharmaceutical, medical device or biotech industries with demonstrated excellence in MSL competencies and a track record of delivering measurable strategic, scientific, and operational outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and influence diverse stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and strategic planning skills with a results and outcomes oriented mindset.
• Ability to translate complex scientific information into clear, actionable insights that create measurable impact.
• Commitment to compliance, scientific integrity, documentation excellence, and sustained scientific credibility.
• Contributes to a cohesive and high performing team culture with measurable positive impact.
• Deep, authoritative understanding of therapeutic area science.
• Strong ability to interpret and communicate complex clinical data clearly.

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Divisional Information

Medical Devices

General Medical Devices:

Our medical devices help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks.

CRM

As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.

Diabetes

We’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.

Vascular

Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease.

Neuromodulation

Our Neuromodulation business includes implantable devices compatible with mobile technology to help people who suffer from chronic pain and movement disorders. These non-opioid therapies allow us to provide interventional pain therapy to patients throughout the pain continuum.

Structural Heart

Structural Heart Business Mission:  why we exist

Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life through the design and provision of device and management solutions for the treatment of structural heart disease.

EP

In Abbott’s Electrophysiology (EP) business, we’re advancing the treatment of heart disease through breakthrough medical technologies in atrial fibrillation, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

HF

In Abbott’s Heart Failure (HF) business, we’re developing solutions to diagnose, monitor and manage heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

Diagnostics

We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.

Abbott Molecular is a leader in molecular diagnostics and the analysis of DNA, RNA, and proteins at the molecular level.

Our Point of Care diagnostic portfolio spans key heath and therapeutic areas, including infections disease, cardiometabolic, informatics and toxicology.

Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments and informatics systems are often the first step in patient care decision making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

Our rapid diagnostics solutions are helping address some of the world’s greatest healthcare challenges.

Nutrition

Our nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands – including Similac®, PediaSure®, Pedialyte®, Ensure®, and Glucerna® – to help them get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest lives.

The base pay for this position is

$129,300.00 – $258,700.00

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

JOB FAMILY:

Medical & Scientific Affairs

DIVISION:

ADC Diabetes Care

LOCATION:

United States of America : Remote

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

TRAVEL:

Yes, 50 % of the Time

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

No

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Driving a personal auto or company car or truck, or a powered piece of material handling equipment, Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.EEO is the Law link- English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdfEEO is the Law link- Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf