Medical Science Liaison - Southeast

LivaNova•Durham, NC

1d•Remote

About The Position

As a global medtech company, LivaNova is driven by its Vision of changing the trajectory of lives for a new day and its Mission to create ingenious solutions that ignite patient turnarounds. The company has a relentless commitment to patients and a strong legacy of innovation in healthcare. LivaNova invites talented individuals to join its team worldwide to become pioneers. The Medical Science Liaison (MSL) establishes and maintains peer-to-peer relationships with health care providers, medical and scientific experts, and key opinion leaders (KOLs). This role also involves providing insights from these external stakeholders to internal colleagues for product and market development and life cycle management.

Requirements

Doctoral-level degree (M.D., Ph.D. PharmD) required.
Experience (≥3 years) in clinical affairs, medical affairs and/or clinical strategy in the medical device industry.
Demonstrated ability to establish networks and active relationships with Key Opinion Leaders.
Understanding and demonstrated ability to work compliantly in a field-based role, within the medical affairs organization, in collaboration with the commercial organization.
Demonstrated ability to embrace responsibilities and to achieve goals.
Strong initiative and desire to work as part of a cross-functional team.
Excellent time management.
Demonstrated ability to work independently.
Pro-active team player, flexible, and ability to work in ambiguous situations.

Nice To Haves

Clinical or research experience in epilepsy and neuromodulation is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain peer-to-peer collaborations and relationships with key stakeholders in the medical and scientific communities.
Develop an understanding of the regional landscape including specialties involved in care of patients.
Generate and execute tactical regional plans to provide needs based, value-added support of the medical and scientific community in line with company goals.
Support clinical development initiatives including investigator-initiated research (IIR) and LivaNova-sponsored clinical studies and registries (e.g., site identification, trial recruitment, and presentation of final approved data).
Collaborate with key internal and external stakeholders on Medical Affairs-led initiatives including publications, advisory boards, medical education (e.g., CME) opportunities, training, and speaker development.
Identify, profile, prioritize and map thought leaders in line with strategic initiatives and goals.
Support external stakeholders with up-to-date medical information, robust disease expertise, and product information, including providing fair and balanced responses to requests for scientific information.
Communicate clinical insights on new data to inform clinical and market development strategy for the therapeutic area.
Serve as scientific peer-to-peer resource to external disease experts and internal stakeholders.
Train internal stakeholders on key scientific and medical topics in relevant therapeutic area.
Maintain effective and appropriate communication among internal stakeholders while maintaining full compliance with relevant requirements.
Maintain accurate reporting and documentation of MSL action plans and key performance metrics.