(Senior) Medical Science Liaison Manager

THE POSITION

The successful candidate will work across the key strategic oncology centres within London and South East region. The primary focus for this role will be working in  Boehringer Ingelheim’s lung cancer pipeline. This field-based role will be responsible for non-promotional, scientific exchange and interactions, with External Experts (EE), Healthcare Professionals (HCPs) and other relevant decisionmakers (ORDMs).

Working as part of our Oncology therapy area medical team, the principal role of the MSL is (i) to build and maintain long-term trusted partnerships with external stakeholders supporting their research and medical/scientific information needs, (ii) identify the needs of external stakeholders and opportunities within healthcare systems, and proactively meet these by fostering collaboration with internal stakeholders and leveraging external partnerships, and (iii) inform strategic decisions and support organisational goals by developing a deep understanding of the therapeutic area (TA) and the broader healthcare landscape and gathering actionable insights in alignment with TA/asset strategy, thereby improving patient care and management, facilitating clinical adoption and adding value to Boehringer.

TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Identify, profile, and strategically engage with relevant external stakeholders in the territory.
• Build long-term trusted partnerships with external stakeholders by driving peer-to-peer exchange of unbiased, accurate, up-to-date medical and scientific knowledge and improving disease awareness.
• Provide medical/scientific information and expertise on Boehringer’s clinical trials and Boehringer’s medicines to EEs/ HCPs in response to unsolicited requests on single and ongoing basis, including the delivery of presentations using approved materials.
• Communicate scientific data and asset value-proposition effectively, using omnichannel orchestration, ensuring that individual preferences and needs of external stakeholders are met.
• Develop a deep understanding of stakeholder network, healthcare landscape, and patient-care pathways, in collaboration with internal cross-functional team members, to develop and execute a territory-specific strategic stakeholder engagement plan that supports the business strategic priorities and the needs of the healthcare system.
• Recognize the gaps/bottlenecks in patient journeys and identify opportunities for support and/or collaborative partnerships that aim to improve referral pathways and overall patient care and/or relate to data generation.
• Proactively seek and gather strategically relevant insights related (but not limited) to the therapeutic area, disease management, healthcare landscape, patient journey, stakeholder network, clinical data and educational gaps, and stakeholder needs and opportunities.
• Share insights internally, to relevant teams, to support actioning of these insights, inform strategy and the identification of collaborative opportunities.
• Develop and execute (or support development and execution of) strategies/actions based on the insights within the territory and/or cross-functionally.
• Contribute to shaping internal strategic decisions and/or therapeutic area goals by discussing and sharing key strategic insights in relevant meetings.
• Lead and/or support on medical projects or activities for example: publications, medical education, preceptorships, round-table discussions, advisory boards, congresses, ECR, etc.
• Support on other internal activities/projects such as speaker briefings and internal trainings, in close collaboration with the appropriate internal colleagues and external stakeholders.
• Provide intelligence and actionable insights to support site/investigator identification and selection, site-initiation, and identification of recruitment gaps of Boehringer-sponsored studies, supporting the clinical development and operations team.
• Collaborate with Market Access/Healthcare Economics & Outcomes Research/Healthcare Affairs team for discussions on scientific data and asset value-proposition.
   

REQUIREMENTS

• Experience working in the oncology therapy area is necessary either clinically or in a research capacity.
• Demonstrate self-motivation and learning agility, especially ability to develop expertise in new therapy areas, to maintain expertise and medical leadership in the lung oncology therapy area.
• Ability to collaborate with different internal and external stakeholders, to develop & strengthen trusted partnerships.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Excellent prioritisation skills and ability to manage time and resources optimally.
• Proactive attitude, growth mindset, agility, emotional intelligence, teamwork, trustworthiness, resilience, accountability, and strong leadership.
• Strategic mindset and business acumen.
• Ability and willingness to undertake regular travel across the region and on some occasions, to National and International Congresses.
• Ability to fulfil key performance indicators (KPIs) associated with respective responsibilities.
• Experience of liaising with external medical experts and internal cross functional teams – preferred.
• Knowledge of local healthcare systems and clinical practices related to patient care – preferred.
• Experience working with or within the pharmaceutical industry – preferred.