(Senior) Medical Science Liaison - South West and Wales

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THE POSITION

The successful candidate will work within specialist respiratory centres across the South-West and Wales. This field-based role will be responsible for non-promotional, scientific exchange and interactions, with External Experts (EE), Healthcare Professionals (HCPs), and other relevant decision-makers (ORDMs).

Working as part of our Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) therapy area medical team, the principal role of the MSL is to (i) build long-term trusted partnerships with external stakeholders supporting their research and medical/scientific information needs, (ii) identify the needs of external stakeholders and opportunities within healthcare systems, proactively meeting these by fostering collaboration with internal stakeholders and leveraging external partnerships, and (iii) inform strategic decisions and support organisational goals by developing a deep understanding of the therapeutic area (TA) and the broader healthcare landscape, gathering actionable insights in alignment with TA/asset strategy, thereby improving patient care and management, facilitating clinical adoption, and adding value to Boehringer.

TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Identify, profile, and strategically engage with relevant external stakeholders in the territory.
• Build long-term trusted partnerships with external stakeholders by driving peer-to-peer exchange of unbiased, accurate, up-to-date medical and scientific knowledge and improving disease awareness.
• Provide medical/scientific information and expertise on Boehringer's clinical trials and medicines to EEs/HCPs in response to unsolicited requests, including the delivery of presentations using approved materials.
• Communicate scientific data and asset value-proposition effectively, using omnichannel orchestration, ensuring that individual preferences and needs of external stakeholders are met.
• Develop a deep understanding of the stakeholder network, healthcare landscape, and patient-care pathways, in collaboration with internal cross-functional team members, to develop and execute a territory-specific strategic stakeholder engagement plan that supports the business strategic priorities and the needs of the healthcare system.
• Recognize gaps/bottlenecks in patient journeys and identify opportunities for support and/or collaborative partnerships that aim to improve referral pathways and overall patient care.
• Proactively seek and gather strategically relevant insights related to the therapeutic area, disease management, healthcare landscape, patient journey, stakeholder network, clinical data, and educational gaps.
• Share insights internally with relevant teams to support actioning of these insights, inform strategy, and identify collaborative opportunities.
• Develop and execute strategies/actions based on the insights within the territory and/or cross-functionally.
• Contribute to shaping internal strategic decisions and/or therapeutic area goals by discussing and sharing key strategic insights in relevant meetings.
• Lead and/or support medical projects or activities such as publications, medical education, preceptorships, round-table discussions, advisory boards, congresses, ECR, etc.
• Support internal activities/projects such as speaker briefings and internal trainings, in close collaboration with appropriate internal colleagues and external stakeholders.
• Provide intelligence and actionable insights to support site/investigator identification and selection, site-initiation, and identification of recruitment gaps for Boehringer-sponsored studies.
• Collaborate with Market Access/Healthcare Economics & Outcomes Research/Healthcare Affairs team for discussions on scientific data and asset value-proposition.

REQUIREMENTS

• Demonstrate self-motivation and learning agility, especially in developing expertise in new therapy areas, to maintain medical leadership in the ILD therapy area.
• Ability to collaborate with different internal and external stakeholders to develop and strengthen trusted partnerships.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Excellent prioritisation skills and ability to manage time and resources optimally.
• Proactive attitude, growth mindset, agility, emotional intelligence, teamwork, trustworthiness, resilience, accountability, and strong leadership.
• Strategic mindset and business acumen.
• Ability and willingness to undertake regular travel across the South-West and Wales region, and occasionally to National and International Congresses.
• Ability to fulfil key performance indicators (KPIs) associated with respective responsibilities.
• Experience liaising with external medical experts and internal cross-functional teams - preferred.
• Knowledge of local healthcare systems and clinical practices related to patient care - preferred.
• Experience within the pharmaceutical industry and/or related scientific/clinical area - preferred.
• This role requires someone who is a doctor, pharmacist, or PhD.

WHY THIS IS A GREAT PLACE TO WORK

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