Medical Science Liaison

Medical Science Liaison Role Overview at Syneos Health Commercial Solutions

The Medical Science Liaison (MSL) serves as the primary field-based point of contact with healthcare providers (HCPs), including clinical investigators, on a range of clinical and scientific issues. This role focuses on delivering and facilitating medical education, communications, research, and scientific insight gathering activities for the client, including providing scientific and medical data on both licensed and unlicensed products and indications as permissible by local laws and regulations. The Medical Science Liaison will act as a medical representative across a large, complex environment in Spain, with flexibility to support other countries as needed by the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain, in a self-driven manner, outstanding knowledge of cardiometabolic diseases and related areas, including specialised expertise in rare diseases such as Familial Chylomicronemia Syndrome (FCS) and Severe Hypertriglyceridemia (SHTG), along with comprehensive client and competitor product knowledge.
• Understand and execute the medical strategy and broader business strategy to ensure activities are coordinated with the team and aligned to strategy within the business.
• Serve as an external, credible scientific expert on disease area and client products at HCP field meetings, key medical and scientific conferences, advisory boards, clinical investigator meetings, and patient advocacy group meetings.
• Identify key field insights related to client products, activities, and the disease area, and ensure these insights are effectively brought back to internal teams, disseminated, and leveraged through collaboration with cross-functional partners.
• Facilitate clear communication between the business and investigators in investigator engagement for both client trials and investigator-sponsored studies, and identify barriers to enrolment for pipeline assets.

Required Qualifications

• Advanced Degree – MD, PhD, PharmD.
• Demonstrable experience in an MSL function with cardiometabolic or rare disease experience preferred, or experience in endocrinology or lipidology.
• Knowledge of clinical research design and Good Clinical Practice (GCP) in the cardiology area.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of clinical research trial design and study analysis, including cost-effectiveness and other high-level HEOR (Health Economics and Outcomes Research) evidence approaches.
• Demonstrate ability to develop trust and maintain integrity with Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs)/External Clinical and Scientific Experts, investigators, HCPs, and institutions, as well as with peers, and others.
• Ability to convey complex scientific concepts and information appropriately tailored to the audience, e.g., affiliate staff and regional/global Medical Affairs leadership.
• A good understanding of the Health Authorities in each country across the region would be advantageous.

Why Join Syneos Health Commercial Solutions?

At Syneos Health, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. By joining one of our field medical teams, you will partner with some of the most talented clinicians in the industry and contribute to improving patients’ lives around the world. The diversification and breadth of our new and existing partnerships create a multitude of career paths and employment opportunities within our game-changing, global company.

Key skills/competency

• Medical Science Liaison (MSL)
• Cardiometabolic Diseases
• Rare Disease Expertise
• FCS/SHTG Knowledge
• Clinical Research Design
• Good Clinical Practice (GCP)
• HEOR Evidence
• KOL Engagement
• Scientific Communication
• Medical Affairs Strategy