Medical Science Liaison/Senior Medical Science Liaison - Oncology - West

Medical Science Liaison/Senior Medical Science Liaison - Oncology - West

We are hiring a Medical Science Liaison to support the launch of a newly approved targeted therapy for lung cancer! The Medical Science Liaison/Senior Medical Science Liaison functions as a highly trained, field-based, scientific expert in oncology, who engages health care professionals and leaders in clinical, scientific, value-based care and research-based peer to peer scientific exchange around ALK + non-small cell lung cancer. Following regulatory and corporate guidelines, they will facilitate and build scientific relationships and collaborations with the anaplastic lymphoma kinase ALK + non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), scientific communities. This position interacts with local, regional, and national Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) and health care practitioners (HCPs), as well as professional societies and organizations. The MSL will need to be fully engaged with pertinent professional societies, as well as other value-based institutions and associations including clinics and centers that are involved with the treatment of ALK + NSCLC. The MSL will be the field based scientific expert regarding our client's newly approved therapy in solid tumor oncology.

Essential duties and responsibilities include: functioning as the primary medical point of contact in geographic area, maintaining clinical and scientific expertise in oncology with specific focus in standards of care related to the treatment of ALK + NSCLC, engaging in well informed, compliant, robust, and accurate scientific peer exchange around our client's pipeline, with KOLs, having a thorough understanding of the clinical protocols, clinical trials outcomes and related procedures, developing and tracking key opinion leader (KOL) engagement plans, engaging in medical & scientific exchange with the medical/scientific community including advisory boards, responsible for ongoing territory management and development, responsible for all clinical program requests and for unsolicited requests for information, conducting pre-launch KOL profiling efforts, working collaboratively and compliantly with commercial colleagues, responding to and documenting unsolicited requests for information on clinical initiatives, providing internal teams with feedback and insights from interactions with KOLs, representing our client at medical meetings, attending congresses as appropriate, adhering to corporate SOPs and ensuring vigilant compliance with relevant legal and regulatory guidelines, consistently demonstrating a high standard of excellence in the management of assigned territory, contributing to the achievement of organizational goals beyond the borders of a geographic territory, being solidly versed in the clinical data, providing medical support, clinical input, and/or training for internal teams as requested.

Minimum knowledge, skills and abilities include: an advanced degree (e.g., PharmD, PhD, MD, MSN, or NP/PA) is required, MSL: a minimum of 2 years previous MSL experience necessary with a minimum of 1 year in rare disease, oncology (and/or immunology) with working knowledge of Gene Therapy, Sr. MSL: a minimum of 5 years of pharma experience and 3 years of rare disease, oncology (and/ or immunology) experience, targeted therapy experience strongly preferred, prior product launch experience required, exhibits the highest level of scientific, business, and clinical acumen with excellent communication and networking skills, the ability to interpret and present scientific data to engage KOLs, working knowledge of standards of care for Alk + NSCLC is desirable, previous experience sharing scientific content with payer systems is highly desirable, working knowledge of NCI Cooperative Groups and Oncology Research Consortiums, ability to present complex scientific and value and evidence data to payors and/ or formulary committees is required, working knowledge of institutions and clinics in selected geographies is expected, excellent written and oral presentation skills, ability to travel frequently (70%) with overnight stays (e.g., KOL meetings, site locations, internal meetings, medical meetings and congresses, training).