Medical Science Liaison - V&I
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About the Role
AstraZeneca seeks a Medical Science Liaison for Vaccine & Immune Therapy in Saudi Arabia. This field-based role involves engaging with Key External Experts, generating insights, and supporting medical strategy.
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Responsibilities
- Identify, prioritize, and expand KEEs to include non traditional stakeholders and engage in robust scientific discussions.
- Provide AZ with an understanding of the local medical community, clinical practice trends, HCP insight and real or perceived gaps in current scientific knowledge.
- Foster scientific partnerships with KEEs to help advance disease understanding and to achieve evidence based changes in medical practice.
- Collect and share actionable insights that enhance the value and appropriate use of AZ products and disease management to internal stakeholders.
- Organize and facilitate scientific events on healthcare institutions and their multi disciplinary teams related to the therapeutic area.
- Demonstrate expertise and knowledge of AZ products, emerging therapies, competitors, patient and treatment trends, clinical trials, and scientific activities within the disease area.
- Respond to unsolicited requests for information about unapproved AZ products or unapproved uses of approved products in an objective, balanced manner.
Requirements
- Minimum 2 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry.
- Experience with the healthcare environment and related dynamics in Saudi Arabia is necessary.
- Bachelor’s degree in medicine, Pharmacy, Pharmacology, or degree in biomedical sciences.
- Demonstrated agility to learn, acquire scientific narratives, and manage ambiguity.
- Demonstrated expertise in efficiently communicating scientific data at a peer level with HCPs.
- Ability to work in matrix multicultural organizations and collaborate effectively with the Cross functional team.
- Advanced communication skills, both oral and written, necessary to deliver comprehensive presentations and facilitate discussions with small/large groups of healthcare providers and internal stakeholders (in English).
- Excellent problem solving ability in addition to solid negotiation skills.
- High sense of urgency and commitment to excellence in achieving objectives.
- Excellent planning and organizational skills to demonstrate leadership and ability to work in a self directed manner.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.)
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Role Summary
- Medical Science Liaison (MSL) possesses extensive scientific expertise in respective therapeutic area and engages in scientific discussions and presentations with KEEs about the disease area, and clinical data in a non promotional context.
- This role is accountable for generating actionable insights from KEEs and communicating these to the brand team to shape the Medical and Brand strategy.
- This is a field based Medical Affairs role requiring travel across assigned territories in Saudi Arabia to engage with healthcare professionals, external experts, institutions, and vaccination related stakeholders.
What you’ll do
- Build, enhance, maintain advocacy of Key External Experts (KEEs).
- Identify, prioritize, and expand KEEs to include non traditional stakeholders based on scientific/clinical expertise and practice change influence.
- Provide AZ with an understanding of the local medical community, clinical practice trends, HCP insight and real or perceived gaps in current scientific knowledge.
- Foster scientific partnerships with KEEs to help advance disease understanding and to achieve evidence based changes in medical practice.
- Collect and share actionable insights that enhance the value and appropriate use of AZ products and disease management to internal stakeholders.
- Engage in strategic planning meetings and medical scientific presentations with medication access stakeholders.
- Organize and facilitate scientific events on healthcare institutions and their multi disciplinary teams.
- Demonstrate expertise and knowledge of AZ products, emerging therapies, competitors, patient and treatment trends.
- Provide the AZ internal stakeholders with an understanding of the local medical community through periodic trainings.
- Plan and execute regional medical activities during the product launch processes.
- Respond to unsolicited requests for information about unapproved AZ products or unapproved uses of approved products.
Essential for the role
- Minimum 2 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry.
- Experience with the healthcare environment and related dynamics in Saudi Arabia is necessary.
- An established track record of driving clinical practice shaping and impactful stakeholder mobilization.
- Bachelor’s degree in medicine, Pharmacy, Pharmacology, or degree in biomedical sciences.
- Demonstrated agility to learn, acquire scientific narratives, and manage ambiguity.
- Demonstrated expertise in efficiently communicating scientific data at a peer level with HCPs.
- Ability to work in matrix multicultural organizations and collaborate effectively with the Cross functional team.
- Advanced communication skills, both oral and written, necessary to deliver comprehensive presentations and facilitate discussions.
- Excellent problem solving ability in addition to solid negotiation skills.
- Ability to demonstrate good business judgment.
- High sense of urgency and commitment to excellence in achieving objectives.
- Excellent planning and organizational skills to demonstrate leadership and ability to work in a self directed manner.
Desirable for the role
- Experience in immunology therapy area, including stakeholder engagement and disease area strategy.
- Demonstrated business acumen and track record of end to end project management.
- Full understanding of the medical role in driving innovative value strategies and supporting patient access to evidence based treatment.
- Established track record of basic or clinical research.
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