Job Description

Job Title: Medical Science Liaison


Reports to: Associate Director, Medical - MENA Biotechnology.


Function: Medical Affairs & Pharmacovigilance


Department : Medical Affairs



Job Summary: The MSL is a field-based medical expert role focused on developing and maintaining peer-to-peer relationships with key medical experts. This role will primarily support the company biotechnology franchise. The MSL will collaborate with physicians and other medical experts to provide field observations to internal stakeholders and ensure that health care professionals have the most up to date information as the clinical development programs mature, this role will be reporting to the Associate Director, Medical - MENA Biotechnology.


This is a field-based job with 80% time allocated to the field and nearly 50% travel time.




Duties & Responsibilities:


• Develop and maintain peer-to-peer collaborations and relationships with key medical experts in the Biotechnology community.
• Develop territory field medical plan and TLs Interaction plans based on therapeutic area objectives and TLs needs.
• Support clinical development initiatives including site identification, trial recruitment, registry, and presentation of final approved data.
• Collaborate with physicians on medical affairs initiatives including publications, advisory boards, medical education opportunities, training, and speaker development.
• Serve as scientific peer-to-peer resource to external disease experts and internal stakeholders.
• Support the medical community with up-to-date medical information, robust disease expertise, and product information.
• Communicate clinical insights on new data to the company medical Affairs and to inform medical strategy for the assigned therapeutic area.
• Train internal & external stakeholders on key scientific and medical topics in relevant therapeutic area.
• Maintain effective and appropriate communication among internal stakeholders while maintaining full compliance with relevant requirements.
• Generate tactical regional plans to provide needs based, value-added support of the medical and scientific community in-line with company goals.
• Uses systems to strategically map, identify, profile and prioritize thought leaders in line with the medical plan and goals.
• Maintain accurate reporting and documentation of MSL activities.
• Provide medical and scientific information to respond to KOLs' technical questions about company`s product.
• Lead meetings with KOLs to discuss relevant scientific literature and address their enquiries.
• Make educational presentations to senior doctors and researchers, for example on clinical trial data.
• Feed information back to marketing and sales colleagues to help develop marketing materials and commercial strategy.
• Keep up to date with the latest scientific research and clinical data relevant to the company`s molecules.
• Share safety information with the pharmacovigilance division.
• Comply with all internal & external regulations and codes that apply to medical, regulatory and compliance perspectives.
• Support for the development of Medical Plans.
• Support for management of clinical studies including Company Investigational Studies (CISs) & Investigator Initiated Studies (IISs).
• Supports product pre-launch, launch, and post-launch activities and communication plans within medical strategy and tactical plans.






Education / Qualifications / Skills:




• A medical professional (Physician / Pharmacist) (Male/Female).
• Postgraduate studies in Pharmacy/medicine.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent command of English & Arabic.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Able to identify local experts and manage local medical activities within the assigned territory.
• Mastering computer skills (Microsoft office).
• Problem solving and able to manage complex situations.
• Critical thinking and result oriented personality.
• Proven analytical skills and able to prioritize the assigned tasks.
• Able to work in a team and can identify potential opportunities.
• Share knowledge with other team members.
• Work as part of a team to reach common goals.
• Deliver creative ideas for continuous improvement.
• Develop good relationships with key opinion leaders.
• Energetically embraces responsibilities, demonstrates ability to achieve goals o
• Has strong initiative, and functions well as part of a cross-functional team o
• Exhibits excellent time management o
• Demonstrated ability to work independently o
• Must be pro-active team player, flexible, and ability to work in ambiguous situations.






Experience:


• Minimum 1-2 years of experience in pharmaceutical industry.
• Professional experience in Medical, Regulatory Affairs and/or Pharmacovigilance is preferred.
• Business acumen courses/training is a plus.
• Clinical research experience and GCP certification is a plus.
• Knowledge in therapy area Oncology, Immunology is a plus.
• Candidate must understand compliance considerations and demonstrate ability to work compliantly in a field-based role, within the medical organization, as well as across the commercial organization.
• UAE experience is a must.