Medical Science Liaison - Vaccines & Immune Therapies
United Kingdom
Job Description
As an MSL in the Vaccines & Immune Therapies team you are the field based scientific expert providing evidence to support guideline change & accelerating innovative medicine class growth in the vaccines field.
Key Accountabilities:
- To act as regional field medical affairs expert
- To share knowledge and insight with cross-functional colleagues through a centralised insight gathering process
- To provide technical input into brand/medical activities.
- To support research discussions with clinical leaders in dedicated region
Job ID Reference
1551
Desired Skills & Experience
Essential Skills and Experience
- Life sciences degree or other appropriate qualification (e.g. nursing, pharmacy)
- Clinical, scientific or life sciences background
- Strategic mindset with ability to take operationalise strategy
- Cross functional and collaborative approach
- Understanding of local health economy and interaction with patient pathways
- Understanding of clinical pathways design and delivery, common barriers to optimal care and how to navigate
- Communication and presentation skills
- Business acumen/entrepreneurship; seek out opportunities and new ways of working
- Understanding of real-world data to identify opportunities to support / lead data generation projects
- Understanding of evidence-based medicine and its application into clinical practice
- Understanding of ABPI Code of Practice and its practical application
Desirable:
- Higher degree in science or business subject
- Knowledge of relevant therapy areas
- Experience within Medical Affairs (2+ years) preferably within the vaccines therapy Area
- Experience launching vaccines and securing Public Health contracts
- Experience in the development of clinical trial programmes in the support of the therapy area portfolio an advantage
- Experience of account management
- Knowledge +/- experience of real-world data projects
Company
Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA www.astrazeneca.com
AstraZeneca is an exciting global, innovation-driven biopharmaceutical company. We’re inspired by what science can do. Driven by the desire to meet unmet patient needs in our core therapeutic areas. Bold in our thinking. Proactive in pursuing discoveries beyond imagination. At sites across the world, we bring teams together in a spirit of collaboration to turn great ideas into life-changing medicines – strengthening our product portfolio and harnessing the potential of a pipeline across all stages of the drug development process.
You’ll be part of a team that’s rolling back the frontiers of science to turn yesterday’s impossible into the normal of tomorrow. So, if you share our focus and passion, join us and make a difference to patients – and in return, we’ll help you develop way beyond what you thought possible.
Workplace
United Kingdom
