Medical Science Liaison

Job Summary

To strategically engage with key thought leaders, share key clinical data, execute the medical affairs plan, provide scientific expertise, collect relevant insights and ensure compliance with ethical standards.

The role holder will also be supporting optimal patient outcomes, enhance the organization's scientific credibility, and contribute to the overall strategic goals of the organization.

Roles & Responsibilities

KOL Engagement

• Scientific exchange of key data • Deliver, and contribute to the development of, medical affairs activities to engage KOLs • Collect insights on disease trends, challenges and treatment patterns from KOLs and share them back to the therapy lead and commercial teams. • Collaborating with KOLs to conduct therapy-specific reviews, meta-analysis, case studies, case series, patient-reported outcomes, and publishing them in reputed journals.

Execution of Strategic Medical Affairs Plan

• Execution of strategic medical affairs plan including medical education, product education, medical evidence generation, advisory boards, pre-license activities, and special projects. • Proactively collect and share insights on current practice, new therapies and clinical trial activity. Contribute effectively to the development of the annual Medical Affairs Strategy Plan.

Scientific Expertise and Communication

• Being a therapeutic area scientific expert, responsible for scientific exchange on key scientific data on a proactive and reactive basis, patients’ treatment trends, and studies in the therapeutic areas with a defined audience of leading specialists. • Receiving and processing scientific information requests received from physicians. • Supporting internal teams through provision of expertise and training as needed

Representation and Compliance

• Representing the organization in various internal and external scientific platforms. • Ensuring that all activities in the country are conducted in alignment with the organization’s COBE (Code of Business Ethics) Policy, compliance guidelines and the Medicines Australia Code of Conduct.

Educational qualification: : A Bachelor or Master degree in Pharmacy/Science or equivalent

Minimum work experience:

• At least 2 years of work experience • Experience of to peer-level engagement with KOLs, investigators, societies, and local scientific stakeholders, providing credible, evidence-based scientific exchanges across therapeutic • Experience in delivering high-quality medical-scientific information, including scientific presentations, clinical data discussions, and evidence-based responses to customer queries is preferred. • Experience in managing medical information operations including clinical query handling, quality complaint intake, adverse event triage, documentation accuracy, and cross-functional coordination with Safety, Quality, and Regulatory teams is desired • Exposure of capturing and reporting frontline medical insights, competitor intelligence, and safety information from field interactions, scientific discussions, and customer touchpoints to inform internal decision-making is preferred • Experience of working on novel agents in haematology/oncology.