Medical Science Liaison (MSL) Neonatal and Pediatric Nutrition

Valid8 Financial, Inc.; California (MO); Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading life sciences company dedicated to improving neonatal care as a Medical Science Liaison. You will drive engagement with healthcare professionals, enhancing product knowledge while maintaining a focus on neonatal and pediatric nutrition. This role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the NICU while growing your professional skills.

Benefits

100% healthcare coverage

401(k) matching

Four weeks PTO during first year

Generous time-off for new parents

Access to educational opportunities

Qualifications

• 5+ years in neonatal nutrition.
• Clinical background (RN, RD, Rph, PharmD).
• Preferred author/coauthor of peer-reviewed publications.

Responsibilities

• Develop relationships with healthcare providers.
• Create strategies to cultivate Key Opinion Leaders.
• Maintain clinical certification and provide training.

Skills

Communication

Clinical expertise in nutrition

Relationship development

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Do you want to contribute to a larger purpose to save the lives of infants in the NICU? This is Prolacta Bioscience’s mission! Take a look at this opportunity with our Medical Affairs team, which is seeking a passionate individual, to fill the role of our Medical Science Liaison (MSL) Neonatal and Pediatric Nutrition. This role has responsibility for developing and implementing programs to foster customer development and engagement and to enhance the skills of Prolacta personnel with a goal of increasing productivity and positively impacting sales results. In addition, this position will interface with customers globally as a nutritional expert in the use of our products and may research potential causes for product complaints.

Who Is Prolacta Bioscience?

We give babies a brighter future by unlocking the biological power of human milk. Established in 1999, Prolacta Bioscience is a privately held life sciences company that has touched the lives of more than 100,000 premature infants globally. Prolacta is the world’s leading hospital provider of 100% human milk– based nutritional products. Based in Southern California, we employ more than 300 people globally, many of whom have dedicated their lives to neonatal care.

For more information, please visit www.prolacta.com

How you will contribute

This role will provide you with the opportunity to contribute to the growth of our organization and develop your professional skills by…

• Developing relationships with various HCPs and providing them with credible, fair, and balanced, scientific information about Prolacta products
• Creating strategies to develop selected HCPs as Key Opinion Leaders depending on their specific interests, enthusiasm for, or experience with our products.
• The MSL will be capable of issues management and addressing questions about safety and usage of Prolacta’s products based on available scientific data.
• Field-based activity planning will be done in collaboration with the Medical Affairs Team, along with the commercial and marketing teams, and will involve identifying a focus of effort and the metrics for company success. The focus of effort may vary from time to time and the activity plan will be flexible to accommodate for this.
• Maintain expertise on company products and therapeutic areas. This will involve regular, extensive reviews of the literature, developing presentations, assisting with publications and medical communications, and participation in scientific meetings. The MSL will attend appropriate scientific congresses and conferences, in concert with other members of the Medical Affairs Division.
• The MSL will maintain clinical certification and licensure and achieve and maintain MSL Board certification when eligible.
• Provide post-conference report on pertinent nutritional information for educational purposes.
• Gather/compile competitive intelligence on other products
• Participate in the Prolacta Clinical Advisory Board (PCAB)
• Provide lectures on published clinical data to customers globally and as requested
• Support select customers globally with in-service training when requested
• Provide training to internal customers
• Provide clinical information and slides to speakers as requested
• Attend required education and training (including speaker and other training as needed)
• Co-travel with sales team members globally as needed
• Provide ongoing education of recent publications with written summary/annotation as requested
• Act as liaison between Prolacta and customer when product concerns arise
• Participate in regularly scheduled Prolacta initiated meetings (in person or remotely)
• Provide clinical support to key accounts globally by traveling with CSS/KAM to high potential hospitals.
• Work closely with marketing team members to ensure a thorough understanding of products in the marketplace
• Assist Sales Training Department with training to support tactical implementation of marketing strategy
• Assist in development of nutrition related materials in concert with Marketing and other management as needed
• Work with Senior Management to develop nutritional product training strategy.
• Access resources to keep up-to-date on industry best demonstrated practices
• Track and understand neonatal and pediatric nutrition practices globally – be able to adapt talks to local practices

What you bring to the role

• Bachelor’s degree required with 5 or more years of professional experience in neonatal nutrition

• Clinical background in nutrition required (RN, RD, Rph, PharmD)

• Author/Coauthor of Peer reviewed publications on human milk-based fortification preferred

• Successful healthcare industry training or marketing experience a plus Clinical use and experience with the Exclusive Human Milk Diet

How Prolacta benefits you

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From up to 100% healthcare coverage starting on your first day and 401(k) match, we value our employees’ health and financial wellbeing. We offer four weeks PTO during your first year of employment and support our new parents with a generous time-off program. We encourage employees to participate in our employee affinity groups, take volunteer time off, and provide access to different educational opportunities.

What else do you need to know

Location: Remote, located in the U.S.

Schedule: Monday - Friday

Travel: Up to 50%

FLSA: Exempt

Depending on your residential location certain laws might regulate the way Prolacta manages applicant data. California Residents, please review our Privacy Notice for California Employees and Job Applicants for further information, this can be found on Prolacta.com on www.prolacta.com . By submitting your application, you are agreeing and acknowledging that you have read and understand the above notice.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to effectively communicate (e.g., talking/ hearing), walk, sit, use hands and fingers to handle, feel and reach things. The employee is occasionally required to taste, smell, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision and ability to adjust focus.

Sedentary to light work; repetitive motions; pushing; pulling; visual acuity to prepare and analyze data and figures, transcribe, view a computer terminal.

EEO Statement

“Prolacta Bioscience, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.” Prolacta Bioscience, Inc. is committed to a proactive program of affirmative action and diversity development. The Company will continue to recruit, hire, train, and promote into all job levels without regard to race, religion, gender, marital status, familial status, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, source of income, or veteran status.

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