Medical Science Liaison Immunology - Jacksonville, FL

About the role

The Medical Science Liaison (MSL) role at Bristol Myers Squibb is dedicated to enhancing medical education, data generation, insight generation, and patients' access to medicines. This role involves developing and maintaining relationships with academic and community research thought leaders, healthcare providers, and access stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain relationships with academic and community research thought leaders, appropriate HCPs, and access stakeholders, within a given geography to answer scientific, unsolicited product, and HEOR related questions.
• Demonstrate proficiency in using available scientific resources and presentations. Effectively present information to TL/HCPs and be able to respond to questions, ensuring medical accuracy and compliance with local procedures, ethical and legal guidelines and directives.
• Actively assess the medical landscape by meeting with TL/HCPs/Access Stakeholders to understand their needs and expertise. Continuously update own knowledge in treatment strategies, products, unmet medical needs, clinical trials, health economics outcomes research and scientific activities.
• Identify opportunities to partner with HCPs on disease state initiatives, collaborative research projects, and investigator sponsored research (ISR) of interest and in alignment with BMS strategic objectives.
• Attend medical congresses and local/regional meetings. Collect and provide meaningful medical insights and/or impact by communicating these back to the medical and commercial organizations to support strategy development and business decisions.
• Contribute to the Medical Plan. Develop geography-specific Field Medical and TL Interaction plans based on therapeutic area objectives and TLs needs. Adopt institution/account planning approach and contribute to cross-functional institution/account plans.
• Contribute to development and delivery of scientifically meaningful medical programs/projects in line with the local Medical and Field Medical plan.
• Establish a customer-centric, compliant collaboration with cross-matrix field teams within assigned geography.
• Provide Medical Support. Establish a customer-centric, compliant collaboration with cross-matrix field teams within assigned geography. Provide scientific support at promotional meetings by presenting scientific and clinical data, by evaluating speakers and by giving support to BMS-contracted speakers (if applicable).
• Support Clinical Trial Activities. Support Interventional and Non Interventional Research (NIR) studies (e.g. identification and assessment of potential study sites) to facilitate patient recruitment and/or discussions around the safe and effective use of BMS investigational products, as agreed with home office medical and Global Development Operations (GDO) and as defined by the study scope document.
• Ensure that BMS Pharmacovigilance procedural documents are understood and applied by investigators of local studies, and alert appropriate BMS personnel to any identified Adverse Events.
• Actively support CRO sponsored studies as agreed with home office medical and GDO and as defined by the study scope document.

Requirements

• MD, PharmD, PhD, APP, PA, NP with experience in a specific Disease Area or with a broad medical background and relevant pharmaceutical experience.
• Disease area knowledge and an understanding of scientific publications.
• Knowledge of a scientific or clinical area, competitive landscape and patient treatment trends.
• Knowledge of clinical trial design and process.
• Knowledge of the national healthcare and access environment.
• Knowledge of HEOR core concepts.
• Excellent English language skills, spoken and written.
• Experience Desired: A minimum of 2 years working in a clinical and/or pharmaceutical environment. Prior MSL experience.
• Ability to work independently and act as a team player.
• Translating scientific or clinical data into an understandable and valuable form to help physicians best serve their patients.
• Good communication and presentation skills to present scientific and/or clinical data to research or healthcare professionals.
• Developing peer-to-peer relationships with TLs, scientists and other healthcare professionals.
• Demonstration of the BMS Values.

Qualifications

• Ability to drive a company-provided car is an essential qualification of this position.
• Candidates must be able to drive a BMS-provided vehicle between locations (often great distances apart) and arrive at each location ready and able to enthusiastically and efficiently demonstrate an applied knowledge of pertinent health care industry trends.
• Candidates must possess a high level of ethics, integrity, and a responsible and safe driving history.
• Travel Requirement: Travel required. Position is field based, MSL will be required to live in the territory which they manage or within 50 miles of the territory borders The MSL will spend the majority of their time in the field with their external customers.

Pay

The starting compensation range(s) for this role are listed above for a full-time employee (FTE) basis. Additional incentive cash and stock opportunities (based on eligibility) may be available. The starting pay rate takes into account characteristics of the job, such as required skills, where the job is performed, the employee’s work schedule, job-related knowledge, and experience.