Medical Science Liaison, Rheumatology Northeast

Role Summary

The Medical Science Liaison will serve as a liaison to the medical/scientific community and will be responsible for establishing, developing, and maintaining relationships with medical experts in Rheumatology in the Northeastern US.

Responsibilities

• Always comply with company and compliance policies including internal and external guidelines.
• Ensure the appropriate dissemination of clinical and scientific information regarding marketed and pipeline compounds in a timely, ethical, and customer-focused manner.
• Implement clinical and educational strategies in collaboration with other ANI colleagues for designated customers that include potential clinical trial site placement and sponsorships.
• Work to pair our key scientific leaders’ educational and research needs with available ANI resources and will provide the latest emerging data in response to specific healthcare professional inquiries.
• Present healthcare professionals and decision makers with accurate, unbiased, balanced, and timely answers to unsolicited requests for information about ANI products.
• Establish scientific and clinical relationships with key opinion leaders and academic centers to expand research and educational opportunities for ANI products.
• Provide study support where appropriate, from protocol and budget development to submission and completion for company sponsored research as well as investigator-initiated research studies (IIRs).
• Document and forward reports of adverse events to appropriate ANI personnel.
• Keep abreast of medical and scientific developments in Rheumatology.
• Proactively report competitive activities as well as events that can influence the use of ANI products.
• Develop and deliver very specialized scientific/educational programs including but not limited to formulary presentations for managed care and related organizations.
• Assist Medical and Scientific Affairs as well as agency personnel in the development of presentations and slide kits.
• Actively participate in advisory boards, speaker training events, clinical investigator meetings, regional national and international meetings when required.
• Assist in processing field requests for medical education funding.
• Actively participate in key medical and scientific conferences by staffing medical information booths, gathering competitive intelligence on competitors, and attending scientific sessions.
• Represents the organization as a prime field medical contact.

Skills

• Excellent presentation skills as well as the ability to successfully interact with medical professionals at all levels.
• Working knowledge of FDA and OIG requirements as well as clinical trial design and statistics is required.
• Strong clinical knowledge including pharmacotherapy, treatment guidelines, clinical research processes, medical expert engagement strategies, and FDA promotional guidelines, regulations, and ethical guidelines applied to the pharmaceutical industry is preferred.
• Strong interpersonal communication and presentation skills are required.
• Ability to establish trust through the consistent demonstration of scientific expertise and satisfactory follow-through on requests from key experts in the scientific community.
• Strong communication skills; must be able to provide succinct, strategic, and actionable insights to senior management.
• A proactive self-starter who can lead work and manage others independently, with the ability to see the next step and take action without prompting.
• Thorough understanding of the healthcare environment including all external stakeholders.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast paced, rapidly changing and expanding environment.
• Outstanding work ethic and integrity, including high ethical and scientific standards.
• Deals with scientific concepts and complexity with confidence.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and manage time efficiently.
• Prior experience performing work independently without appreciable day-to-day direction is preferred. Completed work is reviewed from a relatively long-term perspective for desired results against objectives.

Education

• Advanced degree in a health-sciences related field such as a PharmD, MD, or PhD.

Additional Requirements

• Willingness to travel 60% or more of the time. Extensive travel is integral to the performance of this position.