Oncology Medical Science Liaison

Job Purpose:

The Oncology Pipeline Medical Science Liaison (MSL) is a critical field-based role that fosters connections between GSK and the healthcare community. This non-promotional, customer-facing position is dedicated to advancing clinical practice within an assigned territory to enhance patient outcomes. The Pipeline MSL brings extensive clinical and oncology therapeutic expertise, along with market landscape knowledge, to engage with Healthcare Providers (HCPs). This engagement aligns with GSK's medical strategies and plans.

Key objectives for the Pipeline MSL involve interacting with various community and academic experts, facilitating scientific exchange, and serving as a vital medical resource. These scientific interactions aim to ensure that healthcare providers, and relevant payers and decision-makers, understand unmet patient and healthcare needs, the evolving treatment landscape, and the benefit/risk profile of GSK medicines. This understanding supports their safe and appropriate use, leading to improved patient outcomes and the closure of gaps in unmet medical needs.

The Pipeline MSL role is essential for identifying disease and product-related medical needs, ensuring the exchange of scientific knowledge, capturing and communicating medical insights, and facilitating research to advance clinical practice. This role is national in scope and will cover Belgium.

Key Responsibilities:

This role offers YOU the opportunity to lead key activities that will advance YOUR career. These responsibilities include:

• Leveraging scientific expertise and market knowledge to identify and engage HCPs (including academic and community HCPs, Pharmacists, Physician Assistants, nurses, and other healthcare professionals) who may have educational needs and can provide insights to inform medical plans.
• Engaging with HCPs on emerging data, clinical trials, medical unmet needs, patient barriers to access, market dynamics, and educating on disease state and product information.
• Contributing to medical strategy by collecting and communicating medical insights throughout the product lifecycle and understanding their potential impact.
• Demonstrating strategic territory planning and management, including appropriate identification, mapping, and planning of scientific engagements in territory with key accounts, aligned with medical strategy.
• Supporting clinical trials by facilitating relevant medical activities and collaborating with Medical Affairs and Clinical Operations colleagues.
• Collaborating with internal colleagues (e.g., Medical Affairs, marketing, commercial, sales) to ensure a customer-centric approach that aligns with GSK Standard Operating Procedures.
• Understanding and addressing the unique medical needs and attributes of accounts (e.g., educational needs, pathways).
• Maintaining in-depth knowledge of assigned therapeutic areas and GSK medicines to serve as a medical resource to both customers and internal colleagues, understanding the landscape and preparing to address customer educational needs.
• Adhering to GSK’s Code of Conduct, policies, and standards, and relevant ways of working documents, ensuring all activities are conducted in a compliant manner that reflects GSK's commitment to transparency, respect, integrity, and patient focus.
• Executing all administrative responsibilities, training, and documentation requirements in a timely manner.
• Participating in Field Medical and cross-enterprise projects and teams that support medical strategies and tactics.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate level with a medical or clinical focus (Pharm D, PHD, or MD) OR MS-advanced science/clinical/healthcare related degree with relevant clinical, industry and/or oncology experience (e.g., MSN, ANP, MS, MPH).
• Oncology experience, specifically Lung and GI Cancer, preferably in Belgium.
• Medical Affairs experience, preferably Medical Liaison experience.
• 2+ years of experience in clinical research or clinical operations in humans, with practical experience applying this knowledge in an oncology-focused clinical setting.
• Experience engaging in peer-to-peer scientific dialogue with medical professionals and decision-makers.
• Experience in delivering medical-based presentations.
• Experience identifying opportunities for medical engagement and developing scientific engagement goals.
• Experience developing relationships with external HCPs, KOLs, and external experts, as well as with internal stakeholders and key decision-makers.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous clinical experience where direct/or indirect decision-making authority for patient care was demonstrated (e.g., direct patient care, treatment protocol development, drug therapy guidelines development, traditional clinical pharmacy practice settings).
• Proven track record of consistent, high performance.
• Above average computer literacy (e.g., utilizing AI and digital fluency), including experience with software applications.

If you have a disability and require assistance during the course of the selection process, you will have the opportunity to let us know what specific assistance you require in order to make suitable arrangements.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

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Key skills/competency:

• Oncology Therapeutic Area Expertise
• Medical Affairs
• Scientific Exchange
• Clinical Research
• HCP Engagement
• Medical Insights
• Territory Management
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Clinical Trials Support
• GSK Code of Conduct