Allergy Medical Science Liaison - Northern Illinois

Role Summary

Allergy Medical Science Liaison - Northern Illinois. Remote/Field role covering the territory of Northern Illinois (ND, SD, MN, WI).

Responsibilities

• Be the trusted scientific partner to key external experts by conducting timely, appropriate and frequent scientific exchanges to enhance the understanding of the scientific and medical value of our products.
• Execute on stakeholder engagement plans to gather data, develop and share medical insights that contribute to enhancement of Sanofi‚Äôs key medical messages, plans and future research.
• Keep abreast of medical and scientific developments in the therapeutic field to help identify and critically assess research opportunities and to play a supportive role in the execution of evidence generation plans to enhance the value of our products in a real-world setting
• Recognize, record and share insights that deepen our understanding of the needs of patients, consumers, regulators, payers, and healthcare providers and proactively contributes towards identifying unmet needs.
• Maintain effective and appropriate communication among internal stakeholders (Medical Affairs colleagues, Medical Information and Commercial Operations) while maintaining full compliance with relevant company, industry, legal and regulatory requirements
• Demonstrate operational understanding and risk management by ensuring excellence in execution of all governance processes.
• Engages external stakeholders on medical and scientific information exchange for the therapeutic area during one-on-one interactions and group settings, exhibiting excellent scientific and clinical knowledge.
• Uses strong knowledge of relevant diseases and disease management protocols, healthcare environment and competitors to articulate the medical and scientific value of our products with external experts.
• Establishes robust, long-term peer relationships with Key Opinion Leaders and other stakeholder partners
• Actively engages with appropriate stakeholders on medical, clinical, epidemiologic, and scientific topics to advance their understanding of the disease by sharing information and answering questions based on approved material within Regulatory guidelines.
• Engages with appropriate stakeholders to understand the state of healthcare policies and guidelines as they relate to clinical practices at a local, state, regional, federal, or national level.
• Uses defined systems to map, identify, profile, and prioritize stakeholders in line with the therapeutic area medical plan and looks for opportunities to collaborate and build a value based partnership addressing the HCPs therapeutic goals.
• Effectively utilizes the Scientific Engagement Model to plan territory and individual stakeholder medical strategy and engagement interaction plans.
• Effectively utilizes the Scientific Engagement Model for attending and establishing a Sanofi Medical presence at relevant scientific congresses, symposia as directed.
• Organizes educational meetings or local scientific advisory boards when requested.
• Support speakers training to ensure continued scientific support in the field.
• Responds to unsolicited request for medical information associated with supported products and disease state area
• Gathers data and generates insights from stakeholder interactions and provides feedback to the organization
• Recognize and collect feedback/reactions from multiple data sources and various stakeholders.
• Record/report insights and information appropriately, using available mechanisms and tools.
• Critically and routinely evaluate and discern from the information gained from published studies and stakeholder interactions to develop key insights that deepen our understanding of the market‚Äôs needs and opinions of external stakeholders and therefore contribute to enhancement of Sanofi‚Äôs scientific messages, plans, strategy, systems, and product development.
• Maintain awareness of and assesses emerging evidence in disease area to educate and enhance discussions with key stakeholders.
• Distribute relevant scientific and medical information and key external insights to internal stakeholders when requested.
• Collaborate with Commercial Operations, Business Development, Regulatory, etc. to facilitate diligence reviews, medical and safety evaluation, product positioning, lifecycle evidence planning, and compliance needs.
• Contribute to the creation of material for internal and external stakeholders where applicable, following internal Sanofi policies, and Federal and National Policies as applicable.
• Monitor disease epidemiology and provide support, including protocol development, when needed on various types of studies.
• Identify data collection opportunities during stakeholder interactions and report these using approved processes.
• Maintain awareness of clinical trial activity within territory and suggest clinical trials sites as requested.
• Respond to unsolicited requests regarding interest in investigator sponsored studies (ISS), and support ISS submissions through appropriate internal processes.
• Able to operate independently and navigate complex regulatory environments in person and via digital channels from remote environment.
• Possible substantial travel: nationally and internationally.
• Ensure regulatory boundaries re non-promotional activities are respected vis-√†-vis commercial partners.
• Manage a base of stakeholders; developing and maintaining stakeholder engagement tracking database.
• Plan day-to-day interactions, including discussion points in accordance with Medical Affairs strategy, establishing a frequency of interactions per stakeholder per year to ensure objectives are met.
• Accountability for US KOLs with reporting mainly to Medical Affairs
• Execute on defined KOL territory strategy aligned with company objectives.
• Develop relevant territory engagement plans in line with the medical strategy and support the team‚Äôs medical plan execution.
• Use approved scientific data during KOL interactions to advance the understanding of the therapeutic area.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in a technical, scientific or medical field (MD, PhD, Pharm D) preferred, or other Relevant Life Sciences Degree (RN/MS) with Healthcare Specialty required.
• Previous pharmaceutical industry experience preferred.
• Clear understanding of medical practice, clinical decision making and healthcare systems related to patient care.
• Ability to interpret key scientific data and translate this information to meet educational and research needs.
• Demonstrated ability to address educational and research needs through delivery of cutting edge scientific/evidenced based data.
• Understand the design and execution of research studies.
• Exemplary communication and presentation skills.
• Experience in working on multi-disciplinary teams and managing significant volume of projects.

Skills

• Actively listens to others and is adept at confidently stating expert opinion while respecting the positions of others.
• Utilizes effective, professional communications to cultivate strong working relationships with internal and external colleagues.
• Plans, prioritizes, and executes multiple responsibilities and projects.
• Demonstrates effective leadership skills and handles challenges within scope of authority.
• Knowledge of local regulations and codes of practice for pharmaceutical industry.
• Demonstrates scientific expertise and ability to articulate therapeutic knowledge.
• Knowledge of healthcare systems, regulatory and payer environment, public health and industry trends.
• Proficiency in digital tools.