Medical Science Liaison - Cardiovascular - AZ/NM

Amgen • Phoenix, AZ

1d • Remote

About The Position

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, inflammatory conditions, rare diseases, and obesity and obesity-related conditions. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives. Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career. This is a field-based position for the Cardiovascular Medical Science Liaison (CV MSL) therapeutic area within the US Medical team. This territory will include Arizona and New Mexico. The CV MSL will interact with Cardiometabolic Opinion Leaders and Healthcare Decision Makers to communicate and advance the scientific platform as aligned with Amgen's corporate goals and objectives.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree Or Master’s degree & 3 years of Medical Affairs experience Or Bachelor’s degree & 5 years of Medical Affairs experience

Nice To Haves

• Pharm.D., Ph.D., M.D. or D.O. (other doctoral degrees considered)
• Cardiovascular expertise (lipids)
• 5+ years of industry experience in Scientific/Medical Affairs at a biotech or pharmaceutical company
• 5+ years focused on clinical practice, clinical research, or medical research. Experience in a medically-related field can include post-doctoral training (i.e., residencies and/or fellowships)

Responsibilities

• Field-based medical expert in the Medical Science Liaison (MSL) group within the US Medical organization
• An integral position in communicating accurate, clear, and valued information regarding our science and products to multiple levels within the medical community and are responsible for providing field observations to internal stakeholders
• Support Scientific Education Plan (SEP) in developing local territory R&D tactics
• Engage with healthcare stakeholders to educate and communicate clinical and scientific data to advance the scientific platform as aligned with Amgen’s corporate goals and objectives
• Educate and communicate clinical value, outcomes, and economic data to payers, providers, key stakeholders, advocacy, and access enablers
• Respond to unsolicited inquiries consistent with the MSL compliance standards
• Provide and/or present field observations and insights to internal stakeholders
• Execute scientific engagement plan according to annual MSL goals and metrics
• Develop and implement local OL plans in line with scientific engagement plan
• Support speaker training as requested and ensure the speakers are updated on new data
• Support Amgen sponsored research and may serve as a study lead
• Liaise with potential investigators in non-sponsored clinical research
• Lead and/or participate on project teams that support MSL strategies and tactics as delegated by MSL leadership
• Advance MSL value proposition, identify gaps, achieve results, and set an example for others to follow by consistently demonstrating Amgen values and leadership attributes.
• Demonstrate tact and professionalism when communicating and interacting with others
• Lead and support congress activities as aligned with strategy
• Compliantly collaborate with cross-functional colleagues. May serve as main point of contact
• Maintain clinical acumen and expertise and timely completion of assigned training. May serve as a training lead
• May serve as New Hire Mentor and/or International MSL mentor/trainer
• Ensure continued development as a highly-skilled medical expert in the therapeutic area
• Employ command and continued growth as related to strategic business acumen
• Maintain a positive and respectful work environment and motivation to work toward common goals and priorities
• Master core skills and capabilities among staff, particularly in learning agility, problem solving, strategic and creative thinking, flexibility, resilience, effective communication, prioritization, delivery of results and continued improvement
• Identify new opportunities to resolve capability and skill gaps
• Ensure adherence to administrative tasks

Benefits

• A comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts
• A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan
• Stock-based long-term incentives
• Award-winning time-off plans
• Flexible work models where possible.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior