Medical Science Liaison - Uncontrolled Gout - Rare Disease - MI
About The Position
Amgen is hiring a Medical Science Liaison for its Uncontrolled Gout and Rare Disease work, covering a territory that includes Michigan. The role serves as a scientific liaison to the medical and scientific community and builds and maintains relationships with prominent experts and clinicians throughout the United States. The liaison partners with external customers and internal teams to communicate scientific, medical, health economic, and product information in accordance with applicable compliance, legal, and regulatory guidelines. The role requires self-directed work in a changing environment, gathering and communicating customer feedback, matching unmet customer needs with internal resources, and collaborating across functions. It also supports speaker programs, scientific conferences, clinical research collaborations, investigator-initiated trials, and company-sponsored trials. The liaison monitors therapeutic-area and competitive developments and shares relevant feedback with senior leadership. Travel may reach 60%, and travel may require working days of up to 15 hours.
Requirements
- Doctorate degree and 2 years of Medical Affairs experience, or master’s degree and 6 years of Medical Affairs experience, or bachelor’s degree and 8 years of Medical Affairs experience.
- Exceptional oral and written communication and interpersonal skills, including demonstrated networking ability.
- Ability to travel up to 60% for territory management, regional and national conferences or workshops, and company meetings.
- Ability to work up to 15-hour days when travel requires it.
- Ability to learn new business applications across hardware tools such as PC and iPad.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
- Professional, proactive demeanor.
- Strong interpersonal skills and excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Nice To Haves
- Pharm.D., Ph.D., M.D., or D.O.; other doctoral degrees will be considered.
Responsibilities
- Establish, develop, and maintain relationships with prominent medical and scientific experts and clinicians.
- Network and partner with medical thought leaders, academic institutions, large group practices, medical directors, managed care decision makers, and pharmacy directors in accordance with applicable compliance, legal, and regulatory guidelines.
- Understand, integrate, and communicate scientific, medical, and commercial product information to medical and other key audiences.
- Work independently in a changing environment, obtain and integrate customer feedback, and communicate that feedback.
- Pair customers’ unmet needs with available internal resources.
- Collaborate with functional areas to identify opportunities and needs addressable through scientific, medical, and health economic information.
- Identify potential new speakers and train them on scientific content for sponsored external speaker programs.
- Participate in relevant national and regional conferences, meetings, and scientific venues to support Medical/Clinical strategy, obtain competitive information, follow clinical trends, and maintain relationships with investigators and scientific research.
- Work with medical affairs and clinical development teams to evaluate external clinical research collaboration opportunities and facilitate investigator-initiated and company-sponsored trials.
- Monitor therapeutic-area competitive developments, including treatment management, therapies, and competitive products and features, and provide feedback to senior leadership.
Benefits
- Retirement and Savings Plan with company contributions
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Life and disability insurance
- Flexible spending accounts
- Discretionary annual bonus program, or a sales-based incentive plan for field sales representatives
- Stock-based long-term incentives
- Award-winning time-off plans
- Flexible work models, including remote and hybrid arrangements where possible
- Career development opportunities
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
