Medical Science Liaison
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About the Role
GSK seeks a Medical Science Liaison to build trusted scientific relationships with healthcare professionals across Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, and Bahrain. The role involves sharing evidence-based science, gathering medical insights, and supporting clinical research.
Key Skills for This Role
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain trusted relationships with healthcare professionals, academic experts and other clinical stakeholders in your territory
- Lead fair, balanced, and evidence based scientific exchange to support clinical decision making and patient care
- Capture, document and report medical insights from the field to inform medical strategy and evidence generation
- Support identification and activation of investigators and clinical trial sites, and provide scientific support for investigator initiated studies
- Plan and prioritise territory activities, manage your schedule, and document interactions in the required systems
- Work cross functionally with Medical Affairs, Clinical Operations and commercial colleagues to deliver timely, customer focused medical support
Requirements
- Advanced degree in medicine, pharmacy, life sciences or equivalent (MD, PharmD, PhD or similar)
- 2+ years experience as a Medical Science Liaison or in a field medical role within pharmaceutical or clinical research sector
- Experience working in the Gulf and familiarity with Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar healthcare systems
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in English
- Ability to explain complex scientific concepts simply and adapt to different audiences
- Solid grounding in clinical science and ability to interpret clinical data and basic statistics
- Experience or understanding of clinical research principles and clinical trial processes
- Willingness and ability to travel within Kuwait and the region
- Arabic language skills are an advantage
- Previous experience with cardiology, endocrinology, nephrology
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools and experience using CRM or medical information systems
- Comfort working in a matrix environment and collaborating across functions
Full Job Posting
Role Overview
- You will be a Medical Science Liaison based in Kuwait, building trusted scientific relationships with healthcare professionals and academic experts across Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain.
- You will share balanced, evidence based science and gather medical insights that shape local medical strategy and clinical research.
- You will support investigators and clinical study activities and work closely with Medical Affairs and cross functional colleagues.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain trusted relationships with healthcare professionals, academic experts and other clinical stakeholders in your territory.
- Lead fair, balanced, and evidence based scientific exchange to support clinical decision making and patient care.
- Capture, document and report medical insights from the field to inform medical strategy and evidence generation.
- Support identification and activation of investigators and clinical trial sites, and provide scientific support for investigator initiated studies.
- Plan and prioritise territory activities, manage your schedule, and document interactions in the required systems.
- Work cross functionally with Medical Affairs, Clinical Operations and commercial colleagues to deliver timely, customer focused medical support.
Basic Qualifications
- Advanced degree in medicine, pharmacy, life sciences or equivalent (MD, PharmD, PhD or similar).
- 2+ years experience as a Medical Science Liaison or in a field medical role within the pharmaceutical or clinical research sector.
- Experience working in the Gulf and familiarity with Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar healthcare systems.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in English. Arabic language skills are an advantage.
- Ability to explain complex scientific concepts simply and adapt to different audiences.
- Solid grounding in clinical science and an ability to interpret clinical data and basic statistics.
- Experience or understanding of clinical research principles and clinical trial processes.
- Willingness and ability to travel within Kuwait and the region as required; role is field based and on site in territory with hybrid working for internal meetings.
Preferred Qualifications
- Previous experience with cardiology, endocrinology, nephrology.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools and experience using CRM or medical information systems.
- Comfort working in a matrix environment and collaborating across functions.
- Demonstrated ability to translate field insights into local medical actions or evidence generation plans.
Working Model
- This role is field based and on site in your assigned territory in Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman and Qatar.
- You will have flexibility for hybrid working when meeting internal colleagues or completing office based tasks.
- Expect regular travel across the territory.
Why GSK?
- GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
- We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade.
- We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases.
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