Medical Science Liaison

Job Description

Purpose of the position

The MSL is a member of the affiliate medical department. He/she is a field-based professional with scientific, clinical, and therapeutic area expertise who is responsible for supporting, on a non-promotional basis, medical and scientific initiatives for marketed and pipeline products.
The MSL works in coordination with the rest of the medical unit to meet the medical department objectives. He/she participates in the identification of local opportunities, using his/her network of contacts, knowledge of therapeutic areas and health characteristics of the population in each area. Consequently, the MSL has responsibility in the development and implementation of the scientific activities and the clinical plan.
The MSL must maintain up-to-date knowledge of relevant scientific information (by performing literature searches, participation in medical congresses and conferences of relevance to Ipsen’s disease and therapeutic area interests).
The MSL is expected to comply with all Ipsen SOPs, Policies, Directives, and relevant local guidelines.

Main Responsibilities And Tasks

Establish and foster professional collaborations with the Healthcare community:

Map the scientific expertise: identify and complete Thought Leaders (TL) database in the disease area in accordance with the Global MSL Directive and the TL Tiering Process and Maintain a updated medical profiling database of HCPs and KTLs
Proactively provide fair and balanced scientific exchanges with TL to explore mutual clinical and scientific interests, insights generation, scientific/educational meetings (congresses, symposia, etc.), potential research collaborations
Disseminate scientific data as appropriate to HCPs in response to requests, in accordance with applicable laws
Identify opportunities for collaboration with TL when aligned with Ipsen strategy
Develop and enhance scientific and educational collaborations with Healthcare Professionals (HCP) within the Healthcare community and act as a medical contact for TL and external medical experts
Reactively respond to unsolicited and documented queries from HCP

Develop and/or implement unbiased and non‐promotional scientific exchange meetings and educational activities:

‐ Reactively: on Ipsen products (on‐label and off‐label indications), on compounds in development

‐ Proactively: on disease area management (excluding single‐product presentation)

Organise or support legitimate scientific exchange meetings
Contribute to implement medical education programs in the field
Contribute to the scientific publication program, if required
Organize satellite symposia in Regional (in‐country) congresses
Organize and participate in the distribution and presentation of non-promotional materials
Provide scientific and medical content for, and participate in, the preparation and delivery of presentations by KTLs and HCPs speaking on behalf of Ipsen in educational programs and at other meetings

Generate and share insight from HCP to nurture Ipsen’s strategy

Collect, analyse, and report actionable insight from HCP related to disease state, unmet medical needs, local guidelines, therapeutic trends, competitive activities, compounds in development and the broader healthcare environment
If appropriate, organise or support Advisory Boards at Regional level (in‐country)
Attend and report insights from major National and Regional medical congresses
Engage and collaborate on specific initiatives with patient organisations in accordance with the Global Guidance on Interactions with Patient Organisations and individual patients
Contribute to the dissemination of the information within the Company where appropriate
Report spontaneous adverse events and product‐related quality complaints in accordance to global and local SOP
Ensure that Unsolicited requests for medical information from a HCP/care givers/consumers regarding an Ipsen product (either marketed or development products) associated or not with an adverse event or product quality complaint are captured, handled, reviewed and responded through the current process and local database for Medical Information.

Support To Clinical Development & ISS (data Generation)

Coordinate and facilitate unsolicited Investigator‐Sponsored Study (ISS) requests from submission until completion, presentation, and publication, in alignment with Medical Affairs’ objectives
Support internal medical review and facilitate processing of unsolicited Externally Sponsored Study (ESS) requests.
Identify opportunities to generate real‐world‐evidence data

Ensure internal cross‐functional collaborations as a scientific partner

With The Local Office‐based Medical Affairs Department To

Contribute to the development of the Local Annual Medical Plan (LAMP)
Develop standard responses if required (in coordination with Medical Information)

With The Commercial Staff (Marketing Or Sales) To

Provide scientific expertise and training to commercial staff as required
Review and approve promotional materials in accordance with the local SOP if required
Contribute to the review and approval of non‐promotional materials in accordance with the local SOP if required if
Ensure speakers briefing for promotional meetings if required

With Market Access Department To

Respond to requests to support hospital formulary submissions and upon request to present the data on Ipsen products
Respond to scientific inquiries to deliver scientific presentations on the disease area and on the product

Exprience / Qualifications

Etudes / Certifications / Expérience:

Physician (Mandatory).
Preferably minimum 4 years of experience in pharmaceutical industry
Ideally proven experience and successful track record as an MSL or medical department professional in a previous company
Ideally, experience in one or more respective therapeutic areas associated with Ipsen’s portfolio
Experience in delivery of scientific presentations and development of relationships with Thought Leaders is strongly preferred
Ideally, knowledge in data analysis and statistics for purpose of understanding clinical study results
Computer literacy
Ideally, current working knowledge of legal, regulatory, and compliance regulations and guidelines relevant to industry interactions with health-care professionals

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