Medical Science Liaison

Title:

Medical Science Liaison

Company:

Ipsen Korea

 

About Ipsen:

Ipsen is a mid-sized global biopharmaceutical company with a focus on transformative medicines in three therapeutic areas: Oncology, Rare Disease and Neuroscience. Supported by nearly 100 years of development experience, with global hubs in the U.S., France and the U.K, we tackle areas of high unmet medical need through research and innovation.

 Our passionate teams in more than 40 countries are focused on what matters and endeavor every day to bring medicines to patients in 88 countries. We build a workplace that champions human-centric leadership and fosters a culture of collaboration, excellence and impact. At Ipsen, every individual is empowered to be their true selves, grow and thrive alongside the company’s success. Join us on our journey towards sustainable growth, creating real impact on patients and society!

For more information, visit us at https://www.ipsen.com/ and follow our latest news on LinkedIn and Instagram.

Job Description:

As part of the Medical Affairs department, the MSL is a field-based scientific expert to external and internal stakeholders delivering non-promotional information exchange, supporting data and insight generation to provide patient-centric solutions.

The MSL must maintain up-to-date knowledge of relevant scientific information and work in coordination with the rest of the Medical unit to meet the Medical Department objectives. The MSL is expected to comply with all Ipsen SOPs, Policies, Directive and relevant National guidelines.

Main Responsibilities

Establish and foster professional collaborations with the Healthcare community

• Map the scientific expertise: identify, complete and update Thought Leaders (TL) database in the disease area in accordance with the Global MSL Directive and the TL Tiering Process
• Conduct fair and balanced scientific exchanges with TL to explore mutual clinical and scientific interests, insights generation, scientific/educational meetings (congresses, symposia, etc.), potential research collaborations
• Identify opportunities for collaboration with TL when aligned with Ipsen strategy
• Develop and enhance scientific and educational collaborations with Healthcare Professionals (HCP) within the Healthcare community and act as a medical contact for TL and external medical experts
• Reactively respond to unsolicited and documented queries from HCP

Develop and/or implement unbiased and non-promotional scientific exchange meetings and educational activities

• Provide scientific/educational presentations to HCP: - Reactively: on Ipsen products (on-label and off-label indications), on compounds in development - Proactively: on disease area management (excluding single-product presentation)
• Organise or support legitimate scientific exchange meetings
• Contribute to/implement medical education programs in the field
• Contribute to the scientific publication program, if required
• Organise satellite symposia in Regional (in-country) congresses

Generate and share insight from HCP to nurture Ipsen’s strategy

• Collect, analyse, and report actionable insight from HCP related to disease state, unmet medical needs, local guidelines, therapeutic trends, competitive activities, compounds in development and the broader healthcare environment
• If appropriate, organise or support Advisory Boards at Regional level (in-country)
• Attend and report insights from major National and Regional medical congresses
• Engage and collaborate on specific initiatives with patient organisations in accordance with the Global Guidance on Interactions with Patient Organisations and individual patients
• Contribute to the dissemination of the information within the Company where appropriate
• Report spontaneous adverse events and product-related quality complaints in accordance to global and local SOP

Support to clinical development & ISS (data generation)

• Coordinate and facilitate unsolicited Investigator-Sponsored Study (ISS) requests from submission until completion, presentation, and publication, in alignment with Medical Affairs’ objectives
• Support the R&D projects and Company Sponsored Studies (CSS) operations (investigators site identification and evaluation, feasibility studies, recruitment, investigator meetings, external expert identification, study management, investigators query) when appropriate
• Support the implementation and follow-up of post-marketing clinical activities such as registry/database projects, epidemiological surveys, post-authorisation studies (phase IV) at the site level
• Identify opportunities to generate real-world-evidence data

Ensure internal cross-functional collaborations as a scientific partner

With the local office‐based Medical Affairs department to:

• Contribute to the development of the Local Annual Medical Plan (LAMP)
• Develop standard responses if required (in coordination with Medical Information)

With the commercial staff (Marketing or Sales) to:

• Provide scientific expertise and training to commercial staff as required
• Review and approve promotional materials/activities in accordance with the local SOP
• Contribute to the review and approval of non-promotional materials in accordance with the local SOP
• Attend the local brand teams to bring additional scientific perspective
• Attend and contribute to regional account planning/training sessions
• Ensure speakers briefing for promotional/non-promotional meetings

With Market Access department to:

• Respond to requests to support hospital formulary submissions and upon request to present the data on Ipsen products
• Respond to scientific inquiries to deliver scientific presentations on the disease area and on the product

Required Experience / Education

• Biomedical, Scientific University education ideally to post-graduate degree level e.g. MSc, PhD, MD, PharmD
• Medical/paramedical Practice or Research career (hospital and/or hospital related, university research, pharmaceutical industry research or medical affairs)
• Preferably 2 or more years of experience in pharmaceutical industry
• Ideally proven experience and successful track record as an MSL or medical department professional in a previous company
• Ideally, experience in oncology therapeutic areas associated with Ipsen’s portfolio
• Experience in delivery of scientific presentations and development of relationships with Thought Leaders is strongly preferred
• Ideally, knowledge in data analysis and statistics for purpose of understanding clinical study results
• Computer literacy
• Ideally, current working knowledge of legal, regulatory, and compliance regulations and guidelines relevant to industry interactions with health-care professionals
• Language: Expert communicator in their local language and excellent knowledge of written and spoken scientific English

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