Evidence Generation Specialist (Saudi National)

About AbbVie and the Role

AbbVie is dedicated to discovering and delivering innovative medicines and solutions to address serious health issues across therapeutic areas such as immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and Allergan Aesthetics. We are seeking an Evidence Generation Specialist (Saudi National) to join our team in Riyadh. This is a full-time position requiring 2-5 years of relevant experience.

Function of the Evidence Generation Team

The local Medical Affairs Evidence Generation function is responsible for translating approved evidence priorities into high-quality, compliant studies and scientific publications. This function delivers affiliate evidence plans through disciplined study execution, effective external-partner management, robust portfolio oversight, and timely dissemination of evidence across relevant internal and external scientific channels.

Primary Responsibilities

Reporting to the Evidence Generation Lead, the Evidence Generation Specialist is responsible for the operational delivery of the affiliate evidence-generation portfolio. Key responsibilities include:

• Leading end-to-end execution of approved evidence-generation studies and scientific publications.
• Managing CROs, vendors, investigators, timelines, budgets, and scientific dissemination activities.
• Overseeing study planning and execution, site and investigator coordination, and vendor governance.
• Ensuring publication planning, documentation quality, and inspection readiness.
• Developing detailed implementation plans with clear timelines, milestones, budgets, and forecasts.
• Monitoring study progress, risks, and mitigation actions throughout execution.
• Maintaining study master files and ensuring complete, compliant, and inspection-ready documentation.
• Supporting study-related audits and inspections as required.

Scientific Communication and Vendor Management

This role also involves coordinating scientific communication efforts and managing external partnerships:

• Coordinating evidence dissemination activities across Medical, Market Access, and Commercial teams.
• Maintaining publication trackers, budgets, and impact metrics, including usage across Medical, Commercial, and Market Access teams.
• Acting as the primary contact for all CRO partners.
• Managing vendor selection and onboarding.
• Monitoring vendor performance against defined KPIs and conducting governance meetings with CROs.
• Reviewing deliverables and quality outputs, and monitoring contracts, purchase orders, and financial reconciliation.

Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement

The Evidence Generation Specialist collaborates with various internal and external stakeholders to support compliant and impactful generation and dissemination of scientific evidence. This includes:

• Internal functions such as Medical, Market Access, Commercial, Regulatory, Finance, Legal, and Clinical Operations.
• Affiliate Medical Affairs leadership, Medical Operations, Medical Managers/Advisors, Medical Science Liaisons, and Affiliate Safety personnel.
• Area, regional, and global Medical Affairs, Evidence Generation, HEOR, and publication stakeholders.
• External partners including research investigators, study-site personnel, external experts, hospitals, healthcare providers, ethics committees, and local regulatory authorities.
• Third-party vendors such as CROs, data-management providers, publication agencies, and medical writers.