Job Title: Medical Science Liaison (m/w/d)
Location: South Germany
About ADVANZ PHARMA
ADVANZ PHARMA is a global pharmaceutical company with the purpose to improve patients’ lives by providing the specialty, hospital, and rare disease medicines they depend on.
Our ambition is to be a partner of choice for the commercialisation of specialty, hospital, and rare disease medicines in Europe, Canada, and Australia. In line with our ambition, we are partnering with innovative biopharma and pharmaceutical development companies to bring medicines to patients.
Headquartered in London, UK, we have c700 employees based across more than 20 countries, including key countries in Europe, the US, Canada, and Australia. Our Centre of Excellence in Mumbai, India, as well as an established global distribution and commercialisation partner network complement our global operations.
ADVANZ PHARMA’s product portfolio and pipeline comprises innovative medicines, specialty generics & biosimilars, and originator brands. Our products and pipeline cover a broad range of therapeutic areas, including hepatology, gastroenterology, anti-infectives, critical care, endocrinology, CNS, and, more broadly, rare diseases.
We can only achieve our ambition with the passion of our dedicated and highly qualified people, acting in line with our company values of entrepreneurship, speed, and integrity.
About the Role
The role of the Medical Office is to bring medical/scientific and drug safety related insights and expertise to ADVANZ PHARMA and to be subject matter experts across the following functional areas: medical affairs, medical compliance, patient safety, clinical development, post marketing research, and medical operations. This entails engaging and collaborating with healthcare organizations, healthcare professionals and customers – both internal and external - and generating and communicating relevant, meaningful and impactful data. In so-doing, the Medical Office: represents the voice of the patient in all matters; works to ensure that products are supported by relevant, up to date data and retain a positive benefit/risk profile; helps to drive our scientific credibility and reputation as a company; enables stakeholders to make informed choices for patients; operates with due regard to all relevant regulations and compliance requirements.
The Medical Science Liaison works as part of the Medical Office team and as part of the DACH organisation, specifically to:
- Deploy the Medical Affairs strategy, previously discussed with management at a national level and approved by the Global Director Medical Affairs, through development and execution of a local MSL plan
- Contribute towards medical strategy for maintenance products and future product launches through meaningful medical insights
- Maintain scientific support for healthcare professionals and other external experts through development and delivery of quality medical education in a field-based setting
- Establish and maintain strong, scientifically-based professional relationships with the healthcare community and healthcare professionals
- Provide relevant, accurate and timely, high-standard, and customized scientific responses to medical educational requests from external and internal stakeholders
Key responsibilities:
- Develop and execute the local MSL plan, which includes product launch activities, evidence generation, external expert engagement plan, medical education, publication and communication plan; ensuring the successful implementation of medical affairs strategy at the country level.
- Develop scientifically-based, professional relationships with local, regional, and national healthcare professionals to provide current medical and scientific education and information on our products and related diseases.
- Ensure that medical insights and medical/scientific field intelligence informs strategic planning at the local level, and that key issues or insights are flagged to other parts of the organization (i.e. at the global level) as necessary.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the delivery of scientific services to both internal stakeholders and external healthcare professionals; this includes: educating contracted speakers or training internal team members on products/diseases; medical review of new product opportunities; ideation initiatives for portfolio enhancement, etc.
- Respond to healthcare professional product enquiries to ensure focused and balanced clinical and scientific information that supports the appropriate use of our medicines and services.
- Establish and maintain contact with relevant medical, research and educational societies within assigned region as well as with Healthcare Professionals and other external experts.
- Develop where needed, medical/scientific communication materials (such as medical presentations and summaries of data/studies, etc.) and ensure that these are reviewed from a scientific perspective, appropriately referenced, are of high quality, and comply fully with relevant company, Medical Office and local procedures.
- Demonstrate project leadership and management in and across field team and therapeutic area; including appropriate allocation and monitoring of local MSL budget.
- Participation in medical education for healthcare professionals through on-site / virtual presentations at healthcare facilities, investigator meetings, national professional societies and conferences, advisory boards, or local and regional healthcare meetings.
- Serve as medical experts within the Medical Office, and support other teams, such as the medical information team, with developing robust and high-quality responses to enquiries / standard responses.
- Where appropriate, and upon request by the ADVANZ PHARMA clinical research team, to assist in the initiation, oversight and follow up of clinical studies initiated within the therapeutic area for which the MSL carries responsibility. Act as the point of contact with external experts to facilitate investigator-initiated study (IIS) ideas and requests for support to the global medical team as appropriate.
- Ensure that all activities and interactions are conducted in accordance with applicable local, global and national laws, regulations, guidelines, codes of conduct, ADVANZ PHARMA policies and procedures, and accepted standards of best practice.
- Other activities that may be requested by line management to allow the effective execution of Medical Office responsibilities.
About You
We are looking for highly motivated individuals who are passionate about making a meaningful difference to patients’ lives.
Qualifications:
Experience & Competences
- Minimum of 3 years working in a clinical or pharmaceutical environment
- Prior experience as a Medical Science Liaison
- Prior experience in the field of Biosimilars and/or innovative medicines
- Ability to comprehensively learn about new subject areas and environments
- Excellent written and spoken communication and presentation skills, with a demonstrated ability to develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with external experts, physicians and other healthcare decision makers
Knowledge & Skills:
- Good knowledge of the pharmaceutical environment and the role of medical affairs in advancing the medical and scientific objectives of a pharmaceutical company
- Excellent customer facing skills
- Good understanding of and collaboration with:
- drug development, including pharmacovigilance & regulatory affairs teams
- statistics and data analysis
- Pricing, reimbursement and market access and commercial teams
- Competent in delivering medical / scientific presentations
- Cultural diversity
- Project management skills
- Compliance mind-set; ensures compliance obligations are met across all areas of responsibility.
Personal Qualities:
- Fluent in English and local language, both written and spoken
- Ability to travel within the country of employment on a regular basis. This is a field-based role
- Positive and ‘can-do’ approach; biased towards finding solutions and win/wins; responsiveness and flexibility. Excellent team playing and communication skills; strong sense of ownership and accountability
Why ADVANZ PHARMA?
The success of any company is driven by its people, and we are no different.
At ADVANZ PHARMA, we believe in empowering our people to be entrepreneurs and embrace challenges to enable personal and company growth in an agile and fast-paced environment. We strive to do that inclusively and responsibly, treating all employees with integrity whilst rewarding outcomes and impact.
Our teams are made up of people from all walks of life and backgrounds. We thrive in an environment where uniqueness is celebrated, but we are all united by the same passion to help improve patients' lives by providing and enhancing the specialty and hospital medicines they depend on.
As a business, we like to tap into new ideas and fresh perspectives. So, if you join us, you’ll be empowered to own your work, explore new possibilities and make things happen.
But there’s more to you – and us – than just work, which is why our culture, vision and values are so high on our agenda. We believe in gender equality and actively encourage women into senior roles – we have an active ADVANZ PHARMA Women’s Network; almost 40% of our managers are women.
We work hard to recognise and reward talent, and we actively promote from within - last year, approximately 25% of our people across the company achieved promotions. In addition, we recognise talent with our annual Impact Awards, in which our top performers are rewarded for their hard work and dedication.
We offer flexible, agile working options, and you will also enjoy a highly competitive salary and benefits package.
To join us on our exciting journey, Apply now! *
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ADVANZ PHARMA's Commitment to Equal Employment Opportunities: Our teams are made up of people from all walks of life and backgrounds. We thrive in an environment where uniqueness is celebrated. ADVANZ PHARMA is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and prospective employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or other protected classifications to the extent required by applicable laws. In all instances, the company will continue to comply with all local laws governing employment practices. In addition, the company will make reasonable accommodation for any applicant or employee with a disability, both during the application process and on the job, whenever possible.
