Medical Science Liaison, NMD

The Medical Science Liaison (MSL) is the key medical person acting as the main point of contact to external stakeholders (including but not limited to HCPs/Key Scientific Experts/patient advocacy groups/payers/etc.). At this junction, the MSL will assure accurate clear and valued information regarding our science to multiple levels within the medical community and communicate complex cutting edge scientific information and research concepts to healthcare decision makers. In addition, the MSL will facilitate the implementation of medical initiatives such as medical education events, data generation, or clinical trial requests, patient support programs, and EAP within the country. The role may also include sharing insights from the field and use these insights to contribute to company/brand strategy, educate key HCPs on our medicines where appropriate and organize the scientific content for medical education, and provide internal training/education.

The NMD MSM is expected to require 3-4 days in the field per standard week to carry out his/her duties.

This individual will support Taiwan Medical (Operations) function within Taiwan affiliate.  He/She will have accountability for the following:

Primary Responsibilities (Field Activities)

• To establish, develop and maintain medical scientific collaborative relationships with current and future therapeutic experts in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and other orphan disease products in development (including but not limited to immunology, nephrology etc)
• To disseminate high quality complex scientific information and provide innovative medical education content
• To generate medical insights and provide research concepts to therapeutic experts to facilitate patient management and care
• To develop affiliate Key Medical Experts (KME) strategy and engagement plan
• To support maintenance of a locally-specific patient support program that will address the needs of the patients and their families in their journey to receiving and maintaining therapy from their HCP

Others (Educational / Training Activities)

• Actively shares new information and unmet medical needs gathered in HCP interactions with internal cross functional team to identify educational gaps where appropriate

Qualifications:

• Medical or scientific qualification (M.S. or Pharm.D. preferred)
• At least 2 years’ experience in a medical role in industry
• MSL experience for at least 2 years
• Ideally, medical/scientific experience in either rare diseases or immunology or nephrology
• Willingness to travel as it is a field-based role
• Strong customer orientation, science based
• Excellent communication and presentation skills

 

Job Level: Professional

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