Senior MSL - Central Territory – Dallas, United States

Valneva SE; Dallas (GA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Valneva SE is seeking a Senior Medical Science Liaison for the Central Territory in the United States. This senior field medical role engages with healthcare professionals, researchers, and public-health leaders to advance vaccine science and real-world evidence.

The MSL will lead territory-specific medical strategy for the Eastern U.S., build peer-to-peer partnerships, and provide balanced scientific responses within regulatory guidelines.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience in Medical Affairs, vaccines, infectious disease, clinical development, epidemiology, or biopharmaceutical industry.
• Experience discussing clinical evidence with external experts and explaining study design, endpoints, limitations, safety data, and real-world relevance.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and execution of territory-specific medical strategy for the Eastern U.S.
• Establish long-term peer-to-peer partnerships with infectious-disease physicians and other stakeholders.
• Provide scientific exchange on disease epidemiology, vaccine science, clinical development, and real-world evidence.
• Capture and communicate external insights to inform medical strategy and access planning.
• Identify research opportunities and collaborate with internal partners to support feasibility and execution.
• Support internal medical training, advisory boards, and congress engagement.

Skills

Field Medical/MSL experience

Scientific communication

KOL relationship management

Travel readiness

Education

Advanced degree in a relevant clinical or scientific discipline

Job description

We are a specialty vaccine company that develops, manufactures, and commercializes prophylactic vaccines for infectious diseases addressing unmet medical needs.

We have leveraged our expertise and capabilities both to commercialize three vaccines, including the world’s first and only chikungunya vaccine, and to rapidly advance a broad range of vaccine candidates into and through the clinic, including candidates against Lyme disease and Zika.

Valneva USA is focused on the marketing and distribution of vaccines for Japanese encephalitis and chikungunya.

The Senior Medical Science Liaison (MSL), Central Territory, is a senior field medical role responsible for scientific engagement with external stakeholders across Central United States. The role serves as a credible, accessible scientific partner to healthcare professionals, key external experts, researchers, public-health leaders, and healthcare-system decision-makers.

• Lead the development and execution of a territory-specific medical strategy for the Eastern U.S., prioritizing scientific engagement, evidence needs, and stakeholder impact.
• Establish long-term peer-to-peer partnerships with leading infectious-disease physicians, travel-medicine specialists, vaccinologists, epidemiologists, academic centers, public-health professionals, and other relevant stakeholders.
• Conduct proactive and responsive scientific exchange on disease epidemiology, preventive-vaccine science, clinical development, efficacy, safety, and real-world evidence.
• Provide balanced and accurate scientific responses to unsolicited requests for medical information, within approved policies and applicable regulations.
• Systematically capture, synthesize, and communicate external insights that may inform medical strategy, evidence generation, educational initiatives, clinical development, and access planning.
• Identify research opportunities, potential investigators, and qualified study sites; collaborate with internal partners to support research feasibility and execution.
• Support compliant medical education, advisory boards, scientific congress engagement, and other field-medical initiatives.
• Serve as an internal scientific resource on the Eastern regional landscape, including emerging evidence, clinical-practice variation, stakeholder priorities, and public-health dynamics.
• Collaborate constructively with cross-functional colleagues while maintaining the scientific independence, compliance standards, and non-promotional character of Medical Affairs.
• Support internal scientific training and provide expert input into medical-review, planning, and launch-readiness activities as appropriate.
• Maintain current knowledge of peer-reviewed literature, clinical guidelines, vaccine-policy developments, and the infectious-disease landscape.
• Recognize, document, and promptly report adverse events, product complaints, and other reportable safety information.

Esseential Qualifications/ Experience

• Advanced degree in a relevant clinical or scientific discipline, such as MD, DO, PharmD, PhD, DNP, NP, PA, MPH with substantial scientific/clinical experience, or equivalent.
• Five or more years of relevant experience in Medical Affairs, vaccines, infectious disease, clinical development, epidemiology, public health, or the biopharmaceutical industry.
• Three or more years of field medical/MSL experience preferred, with demonstrated success managing complex scientific stakeholder networks.
• Experience discussing clinical evidence with sophisticated external experts and explaining study design, endpoints, limitations, safety data, and real-world relevance.
• Expertise in vaccines, infectious diseases, epidemiology, travel medicine, immunization policy, or a related therapeutic area.
• Strong ability to work autonomously, prioritize strategically, manage a geographically broad territory, and operate effectively in a matrix organization.
• Exceptional scientific communication, presentation, insight-generation, and relationship-management capabilities.
• Willingness and ability to travel extensively throughout the Eastern U.S.; residence near a major airport is strongly preferred.

Good team spirit in a strong and highly motivated team