Medical Science Liaison

System One; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

System One seeks a Medical Science Director/Medical Science Liaison for Northern California to support medical affairs across oncology and related areas including infectious disease and nephrology. This full-time contractor role is remote and offsite.

The role serves as a scientific resource to healthcare providers, key opinion leaders, pharmacy stakeholders, and institutional decision-makers, conducting compliant scientific exchange and insight gathering to advance medical affairs objectives.

Qualifications

• Advanced healthcare or scientific degree required.
• Experience communicating complex clinical data to diverse audiences.
• Familiarity with oncology and related therapeutic areas is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Identify and engage key opinion leaders (KOLs) and develop relationships with healthcare systems.
• Support compliant scientific exchange, insight gathering, and dissemination of evidence.
• Contribute to medical affairs strategy including publication planning and research initiatives.
• Identify clinical trial sites and support investigator education and research.
• Respond to medical information requests in line with policies.

Skills

Scientific communication

KOL engagement

Medical information exchange

Publication planning

Clinical trial site identification

Stakeholder education

Education

Advanced healthcare or scientific degree (MD/DO/PharmD/PhD/DNP/NP/PA-C)

Job description

The client is seeking a Medical Science Director/Medical Science Liaison for Northern California to support medical affairs activities across oncology and related therapeutic areas, including infectious disease, nephrology, and acute care. This full-time contractor role is remote and offsite, and will serve as a scientific resource to healthcare providers, key opinion leaders, pharmacy stakeholders, and institutional decision-makers across inpatient and outpatient settings. Core duties include compliant scientific exchange, insight gathering, and collaboration to advance medical affairs objectives.

The selected professional will identify and engage emerging and established key opinion leaders, develop and maintain relationships within healthcare systems, and support scientific discussions at medical congresses and advisory boards. They will contribute to medical affairs strategy, including publication planning and evidence dissemination initiatives. Responsibilities also include supporting clinical trial site identification, investigator education, and investigator-sponsored research initiatives, along with responding to medical information requests in compliance with established policies.

In addition, the role includes documenting adverse events and maintaining expertise in relevant disease states and products, while providing scientific education and training to internal stakeholders and collaborating to drive aligned objectives. Requirements include an advanced healthcare or scientific degree (such as MD, DO, PharmD, PhD, DNP, NP, or PA-C or equivalent). Oncology experience is required, with experience in infectious disease and nephrology, critical care, or supportive oncology strongly preferred, along with demonstrated ability to engage healthcare systems and institutional stakeholders, exceptional scientific communication and presentation skills, strong relationship-building capabilities, and proficiency in evaluating scientific literature and interpreting complex clinical and scientific information.