Director Medical Affairs Benelux - Diabetes

Job Title: Medical Manager, Abbott Diabetes Care (BENELUX)

Location:Headquarters in Belgium

Primary Function:

• Interact with key stakeholders in the medical community, providing training and scientific advice on Abbott Diabetes Care monitoring solutions.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in medical practice and patient management, offering medical support to the commercial organization.
• Contribute to the design of local clinical trials, ensuring meaningful differentiation of Abbott Diabetes Care products, and publish results in collaboration with local Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs).
• Establish partnerships and consulting arrangements with leading medical professionals in diabetes care to support business needs.
• Report to the Director of Medical Affairs and work closely with senior in-country leadership.

Major Responsibilities:

• Support the Medical Director in all medical and clinical affairs work streams, providing input, medical oversight, and project leadership.
• Execute Abbott Diabetes Care's training and continuous medical education activities.
• Collaborate with the global organization to support and drive global scientific projects and new medical/clinical initiatives targeting the medical community.
• Build trusted and strategic relationships with the local medical community in diabetes care, identifying partnering opportunities.
• Develop medical arguments to support the use of our products by healthcare professionals in BENELUX.
• Represent Abbott Diabetes Care's interests in regional medical, industry, and governmental organizations.
• Be a subject matter expert in Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and Evidence-Based Medicine (EbM) recommendations on Blood Glucose Monitoring (BGM) and Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM).

Minimum Education:

• Medical Degree
• Clinical background in diabetology/endocrinology.

Minimum Experience/Training:

• Hands-on experience in managing patients with diabetes.
• Basic knowledge of clinical research, medical risk management, and/or medical device regulations is preferred.
• Team-oriented with the confidence, maturity, and integrity to work effectively as a member of a leading medical device company, with customers and suppliers.
• High personal integrity and ethics.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills, comfortable managing public events and speaking in public.
• Results and action-oriented, driven to excel, and capable of inspiring others to achieve excellence. Accepts accountability for team results and provides clear direction with input from others.
• Required languages: English, Dutch, and French.