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Role Summary

The Senior Medical Science Liaison (MSL) advances the BMS medical mission by building trusted, peer-to-peer scientific partnerships and delivering timely data and actionable insights that support appropriate use of BMS medicines and improve patient care.

This is a field-based role. The Senior MSL is expected to spend approximately 80–90% of their time with external stakeholders (e.g., investigators and clinical thought leaders), while maintaining strong therapeutic-area expertise and supporting internal stakeholders. Field time may vary based on asset life cycle, therapeutic area, and geographic scope. Travel is required and may include international travel.

The Senior MSL will act as the country field medical lead, engaging clinical investigators and TLs, serving as the therapeutic resource for external and internal stakeholders. A key differentiator of this senior role is a strong focus on clinical trial engagement, including leading investigator relationships, supporting site feasibility, enabling patient recruitment, and facilitating evidence-generation activities in close collaboration with Regional Clinical Operations (RCO). The Senior MSL also develops and executes a territory plan that supports medical education and disease-landscape shaping, aligned with the local Oncology Medical Affairs strategy. This role reports to the Regional Medical Market Lead.

All activities are performed in an ethical and compliant manner, in full adherence with all applicable BMS policies, local laws, and external regulations.

Key Responsibilities

1. External Engagement and Customer Focus

• Develop, maintain, and deepen trusted peer-to-peer relationships with National and Regional (above market) Thought Leaders (NTLs/RTLs), HCPs, patient advocacy groups (PAGs), medical societies, and payer stakeholders within a defined geographic scope.

• Engage with TLs/HCPs through multiple channels (e.g., 1:1 meetings, group presentations, virtual/remote interactions).

• Continuously profile and assess the medical landscape within the therapeutic area, maintaining up-to-date knowledge of treatment strategies, clinical trial activities, unmet medical needs, competitive landscape, and scientific developments.

• Effectively present scientific and clinical information to HCPs, ensuring medical accuracy and full compliance with local procedures, ethical guidelines, and legal and regulatory directives.

• Identify and engage potential speakers for BMS educational programs, ensuring all speakers receive appropriate product and disease-state training.

• Engage strategically with payers during pre- and peri-launch phases in collaboration with Field HEOR and Account Executives where applicable.

• Support acceleration of pipeline impact and launch readiness through HCP engagement, medical education, advisory boards, and scientific exchange.

• Leverage digital tools and capabilities — including AI — to enhance the quality, reach, and efficiency of medical engagement.

2. Clinical Trial Support and Evidence Generation 

• Serve as the primary point of contact between clinical trial investigators and the BMS Medical/Global Development Operations (GDO) team, as aligned with local medical leadership.

• Support Interventional and Non-Interventional Research (NIR) studies by identifying and assessing potential study sites, facilitating patient recruitment, and supporting discussions around the safe and effective use of BMS investigational products — in accordance with local medical management direction and the relevant study scope document.

• Provide feasibility insights to the clinical development team (study and site), based on field knowledge and investigator relationships.

• Actively support CRO/RCO-sponsored studies as agreed with local medical management and as defined by the applicable study scope document.

• Support Investigator-Sponsored Research (ISR) and collaborative study submissions and execution processes, including follow-up, in accordance with BMS guidance.

• Liaise with key accounts to understand clinical barriers to patient access and promote equity in access to clinical trials.

• Lead or support investigator meetings, as agreed with local and regional medical management.

• Contribute to the involvement of TLs in local and/or GDO-driven studies, Managed Access Protocols (MAP), and other scientific activities.

• Ensure that BMS Pharmacovigilance procedural documents are understood and applied by all investigators in local studies; promptly alert appropriate BMS personnel to any identified Adverse Events (AEs).

3. Medical Planning and Execution

• Contribute to the Local/Regional Medical Plan (e.g., clinical trial support, ISR strategy, and medical-insight priorities).

• Develop and execute a Scientific engagement plan aligned with therapeutic area objectives and stakeholder needs.

• Use an institution/account planning approach and contribute to cross-functional institution and account plans.

• Contribute to medical strategy by sharing medical insights and disease-area knowledge, grounded in patient needs and treatment trends.

• Lead/ support the execution of regional advisory board meetings, satellite symposia, expert exchange meetings, and other strategic tactics.

• Contribute to the medical/scientific sections of pricing and reimbursement files where applicable.

4. Medical Insights Capture and Communication

• Systematically collect and communicate meaningful medical insights from the field back to internal stakeholders to inform strategy development, medical plans, and pipeline decisions.

• Gather and share intelligence on the competitive landscape and clinical practice trends to support strategic decision-making.

• Appropriately document all activities and achieve annual goals in accordance with BMS performance and reporting requirements.

• Contribute to medical strategy by sharing medical insights and disease-area knowledge, grounded in patient needs and treatment trends.

5. Internal Medical Support

• Provide scientific support at medical meetings, including presenting unbiased data, evaluating speakers, and supporting BMS-contracted speakers.

• Support the initial and ongoing product and disease-area training of investigational site staff, site managers, and monitors involved in BMS studies.

• Provide scientific training and medical updates to internal stakeholders including Commercial, Regional Clinical Operations (RCO), Regional Delivery Leads (RDL), Regulatory Affairs, Pharmacovigilance, Legal, HEOR, and Market Access teams, as appropriate.

6. Compliance and Ethics

• Endorse and actively model a culture of compliance and integrity, adhering to all applicable internal BMS policies and external laws and regulations.

• Act as a role model demonstrating consistent ethical and professional behaviour at all times.

• Alert management or the Compliance Department promptly to any potential compliance issues identified in the field.

• Work with the local Pharmacovigilance-responsible colleague to ensure all AE information identified in the field is correctly and transparently collected and reported to relevant Health Authorities.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Advanced scientific or medical degree required: MD, PharmD, or PhD with experience in Oncology, or with a broad medical background.

  • Science Graduate with substantial and relevant pharmaceutical/industry experience may also be considered.

• Contribute to medical strategy by sharing medical insights and disease-area knowledge, grounded in patient needs and treatment trends.

• Demonstrated experience working in a scientific and/or clinical research environment in Oncology.

• Robust experience in clinical trial support, including site identification, investigator engagement, patient recruitment facilitation, and ISR/collaborative study processes.

• Experience in translating and communicating complex scientific or clinical data in a clear, accurate, and valuable manner to support HCPs in best serving their patients.

• Proven ability to develop and maintain effective peer-to-peer relationships with investigators, TLs, and other healthcare professionals.

• Experience with investigator-sponsored research, non-registrational studies, and early patient access programmes.

• Experience working effectively with cross-functional teams including Clinical, Commercial, Regulatory, Pharmacovigilance, and Health Outcomes colleagues.

• Contribute to medical strategy by sharing medical insights and disease-area knowledge, grounded in patient needs and treatment trends.

• Language requirement: English & French working proficiency required, Spanish a strong asset

Key competencies desired

• Change agility - The ability of individuals, teams, and organizations to adapt, respond, and thrive in the face of change and ambiguity.

• Scientific agility - Ability to understand the application of science to the business by staying up-to-date in the rapidly changing landscape of scientific advancement to address the needs and challenges of healthcare professionals and organizations.

• Scientific communication/Customer engagement - Effectively engage and partner with HCPs, utilising all communication channels, to drive scientific exchange, enhance medical education, data generation and collect quality insights that inform strategic decisions to deliver more medicines to more patients faster.

• Customer mindset - Adopting a strategic and customer-focused perspective to facilitate scientific exchange and