Medical Science Liaison - Haematology & Oncology

MSL embody our medical mission in becoming a trusted, agile partner who engages in relevant dialogue and delivers timely, high impact data and insights that advance the science or accelerate access, optimise medical practice and drive appropriate adoption of BMS medicines. The MSL role is a field-based role. It is anticipated that a MSL will spend >70% of their time in the field with external customers.

The primary role of MSL is to develop and maintain contacts with Thought Leaders (TL) and Healthcare Providers (HCP) within their healthcare system. The purpose of interactions is to ensure patients have access to BMS medicines, to ensure their safe and appropriate use through peer-to-peer discussions aligned with medical strategies and needs expressed by the stakeholders. The scientific dialogue focuses on scientific/clinical information around disease management and BMS products in a fair and balanced way and includes appropriate Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR) data.

This role is intended to strengthen field medical engagement across haematology and oncology by building trusted scientific partnerships, generating actionable medical insights, supporting evidence-based practice, and enabling safe, appropriate use of BMS medicines in alignment with the country medical strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain interactions with Thought Leaders, appropriate HCPs, and access stakeholders, within a given geography to answer scientific, unsolicited product and therapy area related questions.
• Use various channels for interactions (1:1, group presentation, remote, etc).
• Develop and execute a medical interaction plan based on medical plan and needs of relevant stakeholders.
• Effectively present information to HCPs and respond to questions, ensuring medical accuracy and compliance with local procedures, ethical and legal guidelines and directives.
• Actively assess the medical landscape by meeting with Thought Leaders to understand their needs and expertise.
• Continuously update knowledge in treatment strategies, products, unmet medical needs, clinical trials and scientific activities.
• Understand the competitive landscape and actively prepare to address informational needs of customers.
• Collect and provide meaningful medical insights back to the medical organization to be actioned in support of strategy development.
• Report safety information, including adverse events, in accordance with BMS Standard Operating Procedures.
• Deliver scientific meetings in relevant therapy area.
• Develop territory Field Medical plan and TL interaction plans based on therapeutic area objectives and TL needs.
• Execute medical plan activities as assigned.
• Adopt institution/account planning approach and contribute to cross-functional institution/account plans.
• Contribute to development and delivery of scientifically meaningful medical programs/projects in line with the local Medical and Field Medical plan.
• As necessary and appropriate, support the initial and ongoing medical/scientific area and product specific training and provide key scientific updates to internal stakeholders (e.g. Commercial, Regulatory, Pharmacovigilance, Legal, HEOR, Market Access).
• Provide scientific support at promotional meetings by presenting unbiased scientific and clinical data, by evaluating speakers and by giving support to BMS-contracted speakers.
• Support Interventional and Non-Interventional Research (NIR) studies (e.g. identification and assessment of potential study sites) to support patient recruitment and/or discussions around the safe and effective use of BMS investigational products, as agreed with local medical management and as defined by the study scope document.
• Provide recommendations and insights to clinical development team on study and site feasibilities within the therapeutic area based on knowledge of the field and through direct contacts with potential investigators, as agreed with local medical management.
• Ensure that BMS Pharmacovigilance procedural documents are understood and applied by investigators of local studies, and alert appropriate BMS personnel to any identified Adverse Events.
• Report safety information, including adverse events, in accordance with BMS Standard Operating Procedures.

Qualifications:

• MBBS, MD, BDS, MDS, PharmD.
• 1-2 years of Field Medical experience in medical affairs is preferred.
• Candidates with experience in the Oncology and Haematology therapy area will be preferred.
• Excellent English language skills - spoken and written.
• Working in a scientific and/or clinical research environment.
• Ability to work independently and act as a team player.
• Have an innovative mindset and approach.
• Translating scientific or clinical data into an understandable and valuable form to help physicians best serve their patients.
• Good communication and presentation skills to present scientific and/or clinical data to research or healthcare professionals.
• Developing peer-to-peer relationships with TLs, scientists and other healthcare professionals.
• Ability to quickly and comprehensively learn about new subject areas and environments.
• Disease area knowledge and an understanding of scientific publications.
• Knowledge of clinical trial design and process.
• Knowledge of the national healthcare and access environment.
• Knowledge of HEOR core concepts (Health Economics and Outcomes Research) is a plus.