Medical Science Liaison

Advanz Pharma Corp
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

As ADVANZ PHARMA continues to build its position as the leader in specialty care, high barrier and value add medicines with products in the field of e.g., progressive non-viral liver disease and anti-infectives, we are seeking a Medical Science Liaison (MSL) to join our Medical Affairs team in UK.

The role of the MSL is non-promotional, scientific driven, patient centric and field based. It provides a key ADVANZ PHARMA Medical Affairs interface with Healthcare Professionals (HCPs) and organisations (HCO), Scientists & researchers, Pharmacists, patient organisations and other stakeholders in the healthcare environment to enable scientific exchange, ultimately to ensure the safe and effective use of ADVANZ products in line with the best existing evidence and latest scientific knowledge.

Main purpose of the role

The Medical Affairs Department in the UK organisation is part of the Medical Office. 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 other stakeholders – both internal and external – and generating and communicating relevant, meaningful, and impactful data.

The Medical Science Liaison works as part of the Medical Office team and is embedded in the Medical Affairs department of the UK & Ireland affiliate, specifically to:

1. Deploy the Medical Affairs strategy, as discussed with management at a national level and approved by the Global Director Medical Affairs, through development and execution of a local MSL plan.
2. Contribute towards medical strategy for maintenance products and future product launches through meaningful medical insights.
3. Maintain scientific support for healthcare professionals and other external experts through development and delivery of quality medical education in a field-based setting.
4. Establish and maintain strong, scientifically based professional relationships with the healthcare community and healthcare professionals.
5. Provide relevant, accurate and timely, high-standard, and customized scientific responses to medical educational requests from external and internal stakeholders.

Key responsibilities :

1. 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 in close collaboration with relevant functions.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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 of internal team members on products/diseases; medical review of new product opportunities; ideation initiatives for portfolio enhancement, etc.
5. 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.
6. Establish and maintain contact with relevant medical, research and educational societies within assigned region as well as with Healthcare Professionals and other external experts and relevant patient organisations.
7. 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.
8. Demonstrate project leadership and management in and across field team and therapeutic area, including appropriate allocation and monitoring of local Medical budget and ensure relevant reporting.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. Other activities that may be requested by line management to allow the effective execution of Medical Office responsibilities.
14. Effectively utilise and embed a blend of omni-channel tools to support customer engagement, disease understanding and brand awareness – to expand access to appropriate patients.
15. Continued personal and professional development through identification and proposal of suitable training, continuous professional development, and other therapeutic area educational activities to be approved by line manager to drive medical excellence.
16. Drive the spirit of “ONE team” across all functions by supporting a team approach to focus on our patients and customers as a top priority.
17. Make ADVANZ PHARMA a truly desired place to work.

About You

We are looking for highly motivated individuals who are passionate about making a meaningful difference to patients’ lives.

Qualifications:

1. Medical degree, PhD, PharmD or relevant higher life science degree.

Experience & Competences:

1. Minimum of 3 years working in pharmaceutical environment at least within Medical Affairs/MSL in a specialty care area.
2. Ability to comprehensively learn about new subject areas/indications and environments.
3. 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.
4. Experience and network in the field of gastroenterology, hepatology, infectious diseases or comparable.

Knowledge & Skills:

1. Good knowledge of the pharmaceutical environment and the role of medical affairs/MSL in advancing the medical and scientific objectives of a pharmaceutical company.
2. Excellent customer facing skills including the ability to build and develop networks and work collaboratively with diverse stakeholders.
3. Competent in delivering medical/scientific presentation and excellent communication skills and ability to discuss, negotiate and convince.
4. Project management and organisational skills and cross-functional understanding and teamwork.
5. Compliance mind-set and patient centric; ensures compliance obligations are met across all areas with a speak up mentality and puts patient safety first.

Personal Qualities:

1. Fluent in English, both written and spoken and familiar with digital solutions (Outlook, Word, PPT, Excel etc.).
2. Ability to travel on a regular basis, major proportion of time is spent in field.
3. Positive and “can do” approach, biased towards finding solutions and win/wins; responsiveness . click apply for full job details