Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain relationships with HCPs, clinical care sites, and key stakeholders in assigned territory.
- Become a therapeutic-area expert; identify community educational gaps; stay current via literature review and medical congress participation.
- Serve as primary, credible source of balanced medical/scientific information.
- Compliantly educate and engage in scientific exchange, deliver presentations, gather insights, and respond to HCP information requests.
- Develop and implement territory-specific medical plan aligned to medical affairs strategy and evidence generation.
- Assist in identifying potential investigators and facilitate clinical research participation.
- Represent the company at major scientific conferences.
Senior Medical Science Liaison (Senior MSL) β expanded responsibilities:
- Lead cross-functional collaborations and contribute to strategic development of medical territory plans.
- Mentor and support peer MSLs.
- Act as regional expert/advisor to internal stakeholders.
- Lead congress strategic planning, execution, and post-congress analysis; deliver actionable executive summaries.
- Contribute to medical affairs collateral and strategic project workstreams.
- Collaborate with clinical development on research initiatives (site identification, investigator-sponsored trials as needed).
Qualifications:
- PharmD/PhD/MD or other advanced healthcare degree preferred.
- Minimum 2 years in clinical patient care, medical affairs, or field medical roles with high performance.
- Strong communication, presentation, networking; ability to engage in scientific dialogue.
- Collaboration skills; adaptable to dynamic environments.
- Preferred: rare diseases, cardiology, or neurology experience.
- Preferred: 3+ years medical affairs/field medical experience; understanding of clinical research and product development; organizational skills; independent work.
- Preferred: leadership in project teams; exceptional teaching/scientific communication; relationship-building with thought leaders.