Senior Medical Science Liaison – Rheumatology - Southwest
About The Position
The Senior Medical Science Liaison is a field-based, external customer-facing member of Takeda’s US therapeutic area medical unit team. The role analyzes, interprets, and disseminates scientific data; acquires and translates customer insights; fosters external expert networks; and compliantly connects customers with Takeda to advance medical strategy and improve patient outcomes. The position is part of the US Medical team and reports to the Director, MSL. The territory is the Southwest Region, with Los Angeles listed as the ideal location. At least 80% of responsibilities are expected to involve externally focused KOL/HCP activities. The role requires frequent travel, with availability to travel up to 70% of the time, including some overnight and weekend travel. The employee must be able to drive and/or fly to meetings and hold a clean, valid driver’s license.
Requirements
- A master’s degree in health sciences, such as MSN, NP, or PA, is the minimum education requirement.
- At least 2 years of experience as a field-based medical science liaison (MSL) in the pharmaceutical industry.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, organization, and collaboration skills.
- Ability to travel up to 70% of the time, including some overnight and weekend travel.
- Ability to drive and/or fly to meetings.
- Clean and valid driver’s license.
Nice To Haves
- Doctoral degree in life or health sciences, such as PharmD, MD, PhD, or equivalent.
- Experience disseminating complex scientific data to healthcare audiences.
- Relevant therapeutic-area knowledge and expertise.
- Clinical, research, and/or teaching experience.
- Ability to work effectively in virtual and cross-functional teams.
- Experience executing activities within legal, regulatory, and compliance requirements.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain professional relationships with KOLs/HCPs according to individual territory plans aligned with medical strategy.
- Demonstrate advanced knowledge of Takeda disease areas and products and the therapeutic-area competitive landscape; analyze and interpret complex scientific information and disseminate it to KOLs/HCPs in a compliant, fair-balanced, and non-misleading manner.
- Support Takeda-sponsored research and appropriately facilitate strategically aligned medical collaborative studies and investigator-initiated research processes.
- Collect, interpret, and internally communicate medical insights from KOLs/HCPs to inform and refine medical strategies and tactics.
- Identify and cultivate partnership opportunities between KOLs/HCPs and Takeda US Medical.
- Participate in executing medical strategy at medical conferences, including staffing medical booths and communicating insights from poster and session attendance and KOL/HCP interactions.
- Respond to unsolicited HCP medical information inquiries referred by Medical Information within defined timelines and quality standards.
- Complete customer activity documentation, including CRM entries and insight capture, as well as training, expense reporting, and other administrative responsibilities in a timely, accurate, and compliant manner.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
