Medical Science Liaison
The Position
Build trusted partnerships with external stakeholders by driving peer-to-peer exchange of knowledge and improving disease awareness/understanding (in alignment with therapeutic-area/asset strategy) to facilitate appropriate patient-management decisions.
From the clinical development phase onwards, inform strategic decisions, support organizational goals, and help improve patient care, by developing a deep understanding of the therapeutic area and healthcare landscape (including stakeholder networks and patient care pathways), and gathering actionable insights. propriate patient-management decisions.
Tasks and responsibilities
- From the clinical development phase onwards, identify, profile, and strategically engage with relevant external stakeholders in the territory, to build long-term partnerships and facilitate early clinical adoption.
- Develop a deep understanding of stakeholder network, healthcare landscape, and patient-care pathways, in collaboration with internal cross-functional team members.
- Understand and apply the skills and behaviors of the Hybrid Customer Engagement Model for Medical (H-CEMM) and Strategic Account Management (SAM) while engaging with external stakeholders.
- Communicate scientific data and asset value-proposition effectively, using omnichannel orchestration, ensuring that individual preferences and needs of external stakeholders are met.
- Recognize the gaps in patient journeys, and identify opportunities that aim to improve referral pathways.
- Proactively gather & record action-focused insights related (but not limited) to disease management, healthcare landscape, patient journey, stakeholder network, clinical data gaps, educational gaps, clinical development, competitors, future trends, content feedback, efficacy/safety of our medicines, health equity, market access, patient outcomes, stakeholder needs, and product use in practice.
- Develop and execute (or support development and execution of) strategies/actions based on the insights.
- Share learnings with internal cross-functional teams, and collaborate to maximize opportunities.
- Support Clinical Development & Operations team in activities such as site/investigator identification, site-initiation, and identification of recruitment gaps.
- Collaborate with Market Access/Healthcare Economics & Outcomes Research/Healthcare Affairs team for discussions on scientific data and asset value-proposition.
- Explore the needs & challenges of patients, in collaboration with Patient Engagement team.
- Collaborate with, or support, internal and external stakeholders for data generation, including real world evidence.
Requirements
Required
- University graduate in Medicine.
- At least two to three years of experience as an MSL in the pharmaceutical industry.
- Intermediate level of english.
- Ability to collaborate with different internal and external stakeholders, to develop & strengthen trusted partnerships.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Ability to use technical and digital tools including Microsoft Office 365 applications, and an aptitude for learning new software, to perform all aspects of the job.
- Ability to manage time and resources optimally.
- Demonstrates proactive attitude, growth mindset, agility, emotional intelligence, teamwork, trustworthiness, resilience, accountability and leadership.
- Willingness to travel (within the territory/nation, and occasionally internationally).
Desirable
- Previous experience in specialty care lines