Site Name: Baar Onyx, Muenchenbuchsee Bern
Posted Date: Sep 11 2024

Job Purpose

Through in-field scientific engagement with healthcare providers and external experts, the Medical Science Liaison (MSL) fosters a more educated healthcare environment by:

• Communicating their deep knowledge of GSK data in the context of overall patient care to ensure evidence-based understanding of the science behind GSK medicines and vaccines and by doing this optimize care across our therapy areas.
• Gathering and understanding the healthcare environment, the patient journey and unmet needs and evidence gaps.
• Generating and communicating the evidence and deliver solutions to close the gaps in care.

Region: parts of Switzerland

Key Responsibilities

• Be the scientific expert for hematology in Switzerland, maintaining an up-to-date knowledge on clinical data and the latest scientific advancements
• Engage in one-to-one scientific dialogue with external experts around GSK’s medicines, enabling them to confidently discuss with patients and the wider medical community and ensuring they are knowledgeable in identifying the right patient for the most appropriate medicines.
• Act as the interface between the professional healthcare community and the internal GSK medical team to bring in value-added insights that inform strategy.
• Partner with the professional healthcare community and experts by setting up medical collaborations.
• Provide scientific education training for business partners.
• Act as an expert speaker at scientific events to disseminate information to larger groups of healthcare providers while stimulating clinical dialogue to gain different views and perspectives.
• Respond to unsolicited requests for Medical Information from healthcare providers in a fair, factual, balanced, and scientifically rigorous manner via the appropriate and preferred channel.
• Partner with matrix colleagues (e.g. sales, marketing, market access, etc.) to ensure strategies and business plans are both patient and business focused and adding value to the external expert.
• Disseminate important safety information to healthcare professionals as and when this emerges.
• Identify evidence gaps and set up, in collaboration with the Medical Lead, evidence generation studies.
• Handle Investigator-Sponsored Studies (ISS) requests and provide necessary follow up.
• Support GSK study teams with the provision of scientific education and enquiry management from investigators and staff engaged in GSK-supported clinical trials.
• Fully understand and comply with GSK standards and policies and with local codes of practice, guidelines and laws to ensure the strictest requirements are met.

Basic qualifications

• Degree in life sciences: MSc or equivalent, MD, Pharm D and/or other professional healthcare provision qualification with experience
• A significant (>3 years) amount of pharmaceutical industry experience in a role successfully engaging in scientific exchange with external experts.
• Solid grounding in clinical, medical and pharmaceutical science with the ability to rapidly assimilate specific and detailed knowledge in these areas.
• Experience in evaluating and effectively communicating evidence-based medicine.
• Excellent communication with high level German, English and ideally French language skills
• Ability to prioritise and manage multiple projects in a dynamic environment

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