Medical Science Liaison (Southeast or West Coast)

Role Summary

The Medical Science Liaison (MSL) is a field-based medical affairs role focused on developing and maintaining peer-to-peer relationships with medical experts and clinical trial investigators. The MSL will collaborate with physicians and other medical experts to support trial enrollment, provide related program and protocol training, and ensure that health care professionals have the most up-to-date information as the clinical development programs mature. This role will be focused on the ocular oncology franchise. Location: Southeast (FL, GA, SC, NC, MS, TN) or West Coast (CA, NV, AZ). Southeast location preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain peer-to-peer collaborations and relationships with key medical experts in the ocular oncology community
• Support clinical development initiatives including site identification, trial recruitment, registry, and protocol and program training
• Serve as scientific peer-to-peer resource to external disease experts and internal stakeholders
• Communicate clinical insights internally to inform medical strategy
• Develop an understanding of the treatment landscape
• Collaborate with physicians on medical affairs initiatives including publications, advisory boards, medical education opportunities, training, and speaker development
• Maintain effective and appropriate communication among internal stakeholders while maintaining full compliance with relevant requirements
• Generate tactical regional plans to provide needs based, value-added support of the medical and scientific community in-line with company goals
• Uses systems to strategically map, identify, profile and prioritize thought leaders in line with the medical plan and goals
• Maintain accurate reporting and documentation of MSL activities

Qualifications

• 3 - 5 years of field-based MSL experience
• Robust and current clinical development experience supporting drugs to treat rare diseases; prior ophthalmology or oncology experience preferred
• Candidate must have an understanding of compliance considerations and demonstrate ability to work compliantly in a field-based role, within the medical organization

Education

• Advanced scientific or clinical degree (PharmD, PhD, MD, DO)

Skills

• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Energetically embraces responsibilities, demonstrates ability to achieve goals
• Has strong initiative, and functions well as part of a cross-functional team
• Exhibits excellent time management
• Demonstrated ability to work independently
• Experience in a small biotech environment preferred
• Pro-active team player, flexible, and ability to work in ambiguous situations

Additional Requirements

• Office is home based
• Travel up to 75%
• Required travel to medical meetings, team meetings, and other group meetings (will require some weekends)