Medical Science Liaison - Rare Disease - Los Angeles, CA

The Medical Science Liaison provides a vital role to the organization by bridging internal strategy with external medical insights. Through field interactions with the healthcare community, the Medical Science Liaison supports disease awareness activities within assigned field territory, participates in scientific exchange, and obtains valuable information regarding unmet medical needs and current treatment paradigms to help guide executive decisions. As part of an emerging US and global organization, the Medical Science Liaison  will also make significant contributions to processes, procedures, and best practices within the developing organization, serve as a medical resource to healthcare providers, clinical investigators and clinical study sites, and healthcare decision makers regarding the organization’s investigational and marketed products, and support product commercialization. The Medical Science Liaison will spend the majority of their time in the field developing and maintaining scientific relationships with Healthcare Providers.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• • Develop enduring professional relationships with healthcare practitioners, clinical investigators, and healthcare decision makers within assigned territory, to provide medical and scientific support for selected therapeutic areas and to ensure access to current medical and scientific information on ShIonigi products and areas of therapeutic interest.
  • Gather insights regarding unmet medical needs and treatment landscapes in targeted therapeutic areas.
  • Attend and support scientific and medical meetings. Disseminate clinical and competitive insights within the organization and prepare post-meeting deliverables as needed.
  • Respond to unsolicited requests; provide truthful, non-misleading and non-promotional information regarding MTPA’s commercial and pipeline products to healthcare professionals including physicians, hospital and MCO practitioners and formulary committees, pharmacists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, dieticians and others.
  • Assist in the development of educational materials and standard responses to frequently asked questions (FAQs); provide product-related site education; serve as medical resource for home office and field colleague training.
  • Present information to healthcare professionals who provide peer education to assist in keeping their presentations current and ensure they have the medical and scientific information necessary to respond to questions encountered during their discussions.
  • Support Phase 3, Phase 4, and Investigator Sponsored Trials (ISTs) as needed.
  • Ensure that all medical education activities are conducted in full compliance with relevant guidance, rules and regulations.
  • Depending on organizational needs, the Medical Science Liaison may also be asked to:
    • Support medical initiatives across other therapeutic areas relevant to licensing, translational, and clinical development activities.
    • Collaborate with colleagues from sister and parent companies to support product development activities, including identification and support of clinical investigators and clinical study sites.
    • Complete all company and job related training as assigned within the required timelines.

  RELATIONSHIPS

  Reporting: Reports directly to the Field Medical Director, Medical Affairs

  Managerial: There are no direct supervisory duties.

  Other: Works cross-functionally and collaboratively with Clinical Development, Regulatory, Commercial, R&D, Finance, Legal and global counterparts.

  QUALIFICATIONS

  Education:      

  • Advanced degree in the life sciences (MD, DO, PharmD, or PhD), or licensure as a Nurse Practitioner (NP) or Physician Assistant (PA). NP and PA candidates with related clinical experience will be considered
  • MBA/CNS, preferred

  Professional Experience:     

  • A minimum of 7 years of professional experience. Medical Affairs experience in Pharmaceutical, Biotech or related scientific medical experience is required.
  • Rare disease experience is preferred; experience in amyotrophic lateral scelerosis (ALS) is a plus. 
  • Knowledge of GCP and experience with clinical trial operations required
  • Experience with customer relationship management is a plus, including thought leader development, speaker bureau training, and formulary presentations
  • AMCP dossier and Health Economics and Outcomes Research knowledge and/or experience preferred
  • Prior launch experience strongly preferred

  Knowledge and Skills:

  • Proven competence in clinical therapeutics, drug development, business and market knowledge, and strategic resource management. 
  • Thorough understanding of the FDA, OIG, ACCME, HIPPA and other ethical guidelines relevant to the pharmaceutical industry.
  • Able to rapidly learn new therapeutic areas in a self-taught and peer-to-peer team learning environment.
  • Excellent communications skill set: interpersonal, networking, verbal, written and presentation.
  • Unquestioned personal integrity coupled with a strong HCP focus and patient-centric attitude.
  • Conscientious, enthusiastic team player with excellent collaboration and teamwork abilities. 
  • Strong analytical and evaluative skills.
  • Able to organize, prioritize, and work effectively in a constantly changing environment.
  • Ability to interface effectively with a variety of technical platforms for the collection, review, and dissemination of medical information.
  • Strong knowledge of MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) and virtual platforms (e.g., WebEx, etc.)
  • Required to travel 75% of the time, or as needed, from a home-based office.
  • Required to attend weekend events (medical conferences, ad boards, speaker training, etc.) on an occasional basis.

Additional Information

The base salary range for this full-time position is $175,000 - $220,000. Individual pay is determined by several factors, which include but are not limited to: job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. The range does not include the comprehensive benefits, bonus, long-term incentive, applicable allowances, or any additional compensation that may be associated with this role. 

Shionogi Inc. is an equal opportunity employer supporting individuals with disabilities and veterans. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment opportunities based on valid job requirements without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), marital status, national origin, age, ancestry, citizenship, disability, genetic information, status as a disabled veteran, a recently separated veteran, Active Duty Wartime or Campaign Badge Veterans, and Armed Forces Service Medal Veterans, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. It is the policy of Shionogi Inc. to undertake affirmative action for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities in compliance with all federal, state, and local requirements to recruit a diverse pool of protected veteran and individuals with disabilities applicants and to ensure that our employment practices are, in fact, non-discriminatory.

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