Medical Science Liaison – Regional Director, Diabetes Care Division

Abbott

MSL Regional Director managing a team for Abbott Diabetes Care in Canada. Providing scientific leadership and ensuring compliance while fostering relationships with key thought leaders.

Posted 5/26/2026full-timeMississauga • 🇨🇦 CanadaLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provide scientific and medical leadership to the MSL team to ensure professional and credible relationships with thought leaders and external experts of strategic importance to ADC in Canada.
Ensure a strong medical and scientific presence for ADC in key academic centers by facilitating research and educational initiatives, while supporting requests for medical and scientific information on ADC products or therapeutic areas.
Work collaboratively and cross-functionally with other in-field leadership and teams while maintaining functional independence.
Support commercial teams while managing proactive and independent MSL initiatives.
Oversee MSL delivery of credible presentations on scientific matters to healthcare providers, individually or in groups (e.g., meetings, clinical sessions)
Help identify key opinion leaders (KOLs) for consultant and advisory roles and support the marketing team in selecting speakers for bureaus, product theaters, and educational events.
Attend relevant scientific meetings and conferences in North America.
Manage staffing for the medical affairs section of exhibit booths at scientific meetings and congresses, serving as the single point of contact for this area.
Ensure the MSL team develops summaries of key data and other scientifically relevant information to inform ADC strategic priorities and initiatives.
Ensure all MSL team activities and interactions comply with applicable local and national laws, regulations, guidelines, codes of conduct, company policies, and accepted best practices.
Guarantee timely completion of all required training by the MSL team.
Collaborate with the Candian Medical Director, Regional MSL Directors in US and other members of the North America Medical Affairs Leadership team to pull through strategic priorities.
Report directly to the North America Field Medical Director.

Requirements

What you’ll need

MD/DO, PharmD, DNP, PA-C or PhD, with a minimum of 5 years of people management experience.
Minimum of 8 years in Pharmaceutical or Medical Technology industry.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

medical leadershipscientific presentationsdata summarizationresearch facilitationeducational initiativesKOL identificationcompliance with regulationspeople managementstrategic prioritizationmedical affairs

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationindependencecredibilityrelationship buildingteam managementproactive initiativeorganizational skillsleadershipcross-functional teamwork

Certifications

MDDOPharmDDNPPA-CPhD