Medical Science Liaison - Saudi National

Job title: Medical Science Liaison

• Location Jeddah
• Job type: Full-time.

About the job

Main Responsibilities

• To build and develop enduring value-based trusted partnerships, through scientific engagement and exchange, with healthcare professionals and institutions in a rapidly evolving healthcare environment.
• To engage proactively and reactively with healthcare professionals, payers, and institutions.
• To execute the Country Medical Plan.
• To generate actionable and valuable insights and propose solutions.
• To create cross-functional partnerships and collaborate with internal stakeholders.
• All MSLs comply with the local and corporate compliance frameworks for external and internal interactions and complete all global/local mandatory training.

Scientific Engagement and Exchange

• Through scientific engagement and exchange, MSLs build and develop enduring needs-based peer-to-peer relationships with healthcare professionals, institutions, and payers.
• MSLs understand their perspectives and needs to adapt and be relevant and

valued.

• Acting as partners, MSLs identify areas of mutual collaboration, developing and implementing strategic medical action plans aligned to the Country Medical Plan.
• MSLs communicate in an accurate, fair, and balanced manner, the benefits, risks, appropriate use, and clinical value of our products and solutions.
• MSLs operate independently (with minimal supervision) and develop healthcare networks to navigate the complex local healthcare environments at national, regional, and local levels.

Insight Generation

• MSLs generate and share actionable and valuable insights and propose solutions/actions promptly, utilizing appropriate tools available.
• MSLs gather data, facts, and observations on the external healthcare environment to generate internal insights.

Internal Collaboration

• MSLs work closely with their office-based medical counterparts to shape, develop, and co-execute the Country's Medical Plan.
• MSLs develop and maintain an internal stakeholder network.
• MSLs provide scientific and technical support towards material development (aligned with relevant policies) for internal and external stakeholders, where applicable.
• MSLs provide scientific support for internal functions such as commercial, market access, regulatory/PV, and R&D regarding scientific training and updates.

Supporting Evidence Generation

• MSLs support the development and execution of clinical trials.
• MSLs identify potential data sources and develop partnerships for RWE.

Training / Compliance

• Complete all MSL SOP training and all other corporate-assigned compliance training.
• Complete the MSL onboarding (and certification) program.
• Commits to applying and continued practice of the Scientific Engagement Model and Insights process.
• Continue to develop and maintain technical therapy area and soft skills.
• Create an individual development plan aligned with career aspirations.

About you

• Experience: 2 -3 years of Experience
• Education: Medical, pharmacy, or postgraduate level science degree. (required)
• Languages: Arabic and English fluency
• Technical Skills

• An in-depth knowledge of the disease state, therapeutic area, and the relevant products in the portfolio and the pipeline. (Highly preferred).
• Familiarity with omnichannel tools and being able to communicate via digital channels from a remote (non-office-based) environment. (required)
• A good understanding of (or prior experience in) clinical development and clinical research.
• The ability to critically evaluate clinical study protocols, reports, and publications. (Highly preferred)
• Good knowledge of pharmacovigilance and local regulatory process and its impact on the product portfolio (highly preferred)
• Strong business acumen, understanding the importance of and being able to build strategic plans and implement medical initiatives. (Highly preferred)
• Role modeling, upholding integrity and ethics values, and adhering to high standards. (Highly preferred)

• Soft Skills:
  • Strong communication and presentation skills to simplify complex topics, good negotiation, and networking skills (highly preferred)

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

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