Senior Director, Regional Field Medical Science Liaison (MSL) West

What You'll Do

The Senior Director, Regional Field Medical Science Liaison (MSL) West Team is responsible for coordinating activities of the Regional MSL Team related to liaising with various internal and external customers providing medical and scientific information on the appropriate utilization of therapy(s) and advancing therapeutic disease state knowledge.  The field-based position is a core member of the Medical Affairs Extended Leadership Team leveraging a scientific approach aligned with medical affairs objectives and therapeutic area medical plan. The MSLs will be credible representatives interacting with KOLs across their assigned regions.

The Sr. Director, Regional Field MSL-West will have solid experience in rare disorders or underdiagnosed populations, launch preparation activities, and a track record of success recruiting, training, developing, and leading field MSL teams. This role will ensure excellence in execution of all field activities including the development of comprehensive territory medical plans, conference attendance, delivering scientific presentations, and scientific exchange with physicians and other healthcare providers.   A critical part of this role will be cultivating relationships and establishing professional collaborations with academic researchers, therapeutic area leaders, relevant research centers, organizations, and clinical care teams.

As a leader in medical affairs, this role reports to the National Director, Cardiovascular MSLs and will work with other functional leaders providing contributions for product development strategy, launch planning, business planning, and project leadership.  This position will require travel, sometimes involving weekends.

Responsibilities

• Recruiting, training, developing, and managing a team of high-performing MSLs
• Fostering a team culture of accountability and develop a proactive approach to growing skillsets
• Provide strategic direction for MSL development and execution of comprehensive territory medical plans that align with medical objectives
• Ensure high quality presentations and interactions through quantitative and qualitative MSL data tracking

• Be instrumental in internal training and communication. Knowledge sharing, including KOL and site profiling, and education both internally and externally will be a crucial area of responsibility
• Developing relationships with various healthcare professionals and providing them with credible, fair, balanced, scientific information about product development, research activities, and therapy(s)
• Be a significant source of balanced medical information for HCPs and will be skilled in issues management and addressing unsolicited questions about safety and potential off-label use of products based on available scientific data
• Expected to become and lead teams to become a therapeutic area and product expert. This will be evidenced by regular review of relevant literature and participation in scientific congresses and conferences, including therapeutic area training sessions, to establish and maintain an up-to-date knowledge base
• Assist in identifying potential investigators and research projects. This may include assistance with the investigator-sponsored trial process, sponsored study site identification, recruitment strategies, and collaboration with clinical operations

Where You'll Work

This a U.S-based remote role that will require extensive travel throughout the West and as needed for visits to our San Francisco Office and medical conferences within the United States.

Who You Are

• Candidates with an MD, PhD, PharmD, Genetic Counseling as well as other advanced healthcare degrees will be considered
• 3+ years medical affairs or field medical experience with a verifiable record of high performance
• Exceptional leadership skills, 2+ years of people management experience required
• Prior experience in rare disease, cardiology or neurology preferred
• Excellent interpersonal communication and presentation skills (including networking)
• Proven ability to create and sustain relationships with industry leaders
• Able to participate in a scientific dialogue with KOL’s and researchers
• Excellent teaching skills and ability to present and discuss scientific material clearly and concisely
• Skilled in clinical research and an understanding of the process of pharmaceutical product development and approval
• Demonstrated ability to organize, prioritize and work effectively with minimal supervision in a constantly changing environment

Travel 50-60% of the time depending on territory size; evening and weekend work will be involved with some variation based upon the demands of the business imperatives

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