Medical Science Liaison (MSL)

Role Summary

The Medical Science Liaison (MSL) is a field-based scientific expert responsible for communicating with a variety of internal and external stakeholders and is a core member of the Medical Affairs Team focused on BBP-418, potentially the first oral treatment for patients with Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy type 2I/R9 (FKRP-related) (LGMD2I/R9). The MSL will work in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment, specifically with product launch planning, rare disorders, or underdiagnosed patient populations, including developing and executing a comprehensive territory medical plan, attending conferences, delivering scientific presentations, and scientific exchange with physicians and other healthcare providers. This role will be critical to cultivating relationships and establishing professional collaborations with academic researchers, therapeutic area leaders, relevant research centers, organizations, and clinical care teams. This is a field-based position in the United States with 50-60% travel anticipated for conference attendance, KOL meetings, and speaker program attendance.

Responsibilities

• Developing relationships with various healthcare professionals, and providing them with credible, fair, balanced, scientific information
• Be a major source of balanced medical information for HCPs and will be skilled in issues management and addressing unsolicited questions about safety and off-label use of products based on available scientific data
• Territory planning, identifying new external stakeholders, and understanding therapeutic area educational and data gaps in the community will be key activities. This plan may be dynamic with respect to the molecule, molecule life-cycle, therapeutic area, and territory. The MSL will liaise with key internal stakeholders to build a comprehensive action-oriented plan
• Expected to become a therapeutic area and product expert. This will be evidenced by regular review of relevant literature and participation in scientific congresses and conferences, including training sessions, to establish and maintain an up-to-date knowledge base
• Be instrumental in internal training and communication. Knowledge sharing, including KOL and site profiling, and education both internally and externally will be a key area of responsibility
• Assist in the identification of potential investigators and research projects. This may include assistance with investigator-sponsored trial process, sponsored study site identification, recruitment strategies, and collaboration with clinical operations

Qualifications

• Candidates with a PharmD, Ph.D., MD, Genetic Counseling, as well as other advanced healthcare degrees or relevant experience
• 3+ years of medical affairs or field medical experience with a verifiable record of high performance is preferred, or at least 2 years of other relevant clinical or healthcare experience will be considered
• Prior experience in rare diseases, neuromuscular or neurology is preferred
• Excellent interpersonal communication and presentation skills (including networking) to participate in a scientific dialogue with KOLs and researchers
• Excellent teaching skills and ability to present and discuss scientific material clearly and concisely
• Proven ability to create and sustain relationships with industry leaders
• Travel 50-60% of the time depending on territory size; evening and weekend work will be involved with some variation based upon the demands of the business imperatives