Medical Science Liaison (MSL), Fertility - South Central region

Merck KGaA•Boston, MA

62d•Onsite

About The Position

Work Your Magic with us! Start your next chapter and join EMD Serono. Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you've got big plans - so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people's lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us. United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe. This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US. Your role: The Medical Science Liaison (MSL) is a crucial role within the Medical Affairs team, representing EMD Serono in the education of the healthcare community externally and leading the transfer of insights to drive strategic decision making internally. The Medical Science Liaison (MSL) is responsible for cultivating and maintaining collaborative relationships with influential members of the medical community to promote company, disease state and therapeutic awareness, in addition to serving as an advanced technical, scientific, and medical expert in the specified therapeutic area (Fertility) for the assigned region. Location: Field-based, Assigned Territory: South Central US

Requirements

PharmD, PhD, MD, DO and 2+ years of relevant experience or NP / PA and 3+ years of relevant experience. Equivalent combination of education and fertility clinical experience may be considered
Advanced scientific knowledge, relationship building and networking skills
Ability to maintain collaborative relationships within a dynamic team environment
Ability to communicate complex scientific and clinical information tailored to a wide-variety of audiences through multiple channels
English language competency
Excellent communication skills
Comfortable with extensive (80%) regional travel including overnight travel, national meetings, and potentially international conferences
Live within the assigned territory or within a reasonable commuting distance

Nice To Haves

3 or more years of clinical and/or pharmaceutical experience in Fertility (required for Sr. MSL role)
Prior experience as a field medical science liaison or equivalent (e.g., nurse clinical liaison) (required for Sr. MSL role)
Live within the assigned territory
Ability to communicate openly and share information to foster trust while encouraging constructive debate, making informed decisions, and ensuring shared commitment to outcomes.
Demonstrated willingness to take risks and stand up for what is right while prioritizing the needs and experiences of customers and patients in all decisions.
Commitment to setting and reaching ambitious goals and setting high standards while acting in the best interest of the company and taking initiative to drive results.
Uphold ethical standards and being honest in all interactions.
Ability to streamlining processes to focus on what matters and creates impact and acting quickly to adapt to changes.
Demonstrated ability to embrace new ideas, challenge the status quo, and seek innovative solutions while valuing diverse perspectives and treating others with respect and dignity.

Responsibilities

Provide in-depth scientific, clinical, and educational support to academic thought leaders and community decision makers through the dissemination of pertinent educational, scientific, and clinical information on the specific disease state and its treatment
Cultivate and maintain relationships with Key Opinion Leaders as peers whose opinions, disease and disease treatment insights and competitive knowledge provide direction to US Medical Affairs and EMD Serono
Disseminate to healthcare professionals state-of-the-art research and medical concepts related to fertility and fertility treatments through one-to-one peer interactions and group learning activities
Lead Medical Affairs activities in your region coordinating with internal departments and external customers
Represent EMD Serono at medical events, programs, meetings, and conventions
Liaise with the US Medical Affairs Fertility Team on the development and implementation of medical initiatives both regionally and nationally
Communicate research and development concepts, key field insights and competitive intelligence to appropriate internal stakeholders
As appropriate, coordinate with Clinical Development and Fertility Medical Affairs in providing field support for clinical research studies
Act as a liaison between investigators and Medical Affairs for the Investigator Sponsored Studies (ISS) program
Maintain HCP and institutional profiling and visitation records for the territory
Administer and monitor appropriate budget expenditures to meet the responsibilities as outlined above
Ensure compliant use of field material and conduct of activities
Act as a respected and highly regarded representative of EMD Serono by demonstrating our values, behaviors, and high impact culture
Extensive (80%) regional travel including overnight travel, national meetings, and may include international conferences