Senior Medical Science Liaison, Nephrology-AR, KS, OK, North East TX

About the role

The Senior Medical Science Liaison (MSL) contributes to the development of the ecosystem strategic business plan and identifies key stakeholders that are vital to the ecosystem. This field-based position engages with Key Influencers (KIs), Local Practice Leaders (LPLs), healthcare providers, and patient groups within their ecosystem to further patient outcomes aligned with Otsuka's overarching objectives.

Responsibilities

• Contributes a clinical and scientific perspective to the local execution plan addressing customer challenges, issues, and opportunities to improve patient care and outcomes.
• Builds, cultivates, and leverages external relationships with key scientific and medical customers and organizations within their territory to ensure a strong understanding of evolving healthcare trends, disease states, Otsuka products, systems, and services across the ecosystem landscape.
• Delivers on business objectives that extend beyond the territory and impact the Medical Affairs organization.
• Maintains a deep and comprehensive understanding of the ecosystem to ensure alignment with Otsuka's patient-centric strategy and priorities, including provision and delivery of optimal patient care.
• Works in partnership with providers and other key stakeholders to apply practical real-world solutions to improve patient outcomes.
• Engages stakeholders at the local level that have some influence across the region.
• Builds and cultivates important internal working relationships across the matrix team to ensure an enterprise approach when working with customers.
• Leads special projects as requested by management and takes on incremental point roles within FMADisseminates disease state and healthcare landscape information to customers in the field as defined by priorities.
• Responsible for clinical and data-focused training of promotional and disease state speakers.
• May serve as part of Otsuka’s speaker bureau in support of product educational needs across the territory.
• Collects and submits medical insights that drive decision-making and prioritize evidence generation efforts and healthcare solutions, including sharing at the local ecosystem level.
• Assists with Otsuka’s clinical trials program, including registrational, post-marketing, and Investigator-Sponsored Trials (ISTs), health economic outcomes research, other specific medical collaborations; provides clinical expertise and feedback regarding operational management of clinical trials to ensure optimal site selection and performance.
• Supports other areas of the organization including Safety & Pharmacovigilance for investigation of safety-related issues, Sales Training medical education on an ongoing basis including new hires, and the Field Medical Center of Excellence for mentoring and sharing of best practices.

Qualifications

• MD/DO, PharmD or PhD in life sciences required.
• Previous training or experience as an MSL supporting Nephrology programs or in other medical affairs roles in the pharma/biotech industry or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Previous training or experience in immune-mediated kidney disease is preferred.
• Deep understanding of the interconnectivity of health systems, overall delivery of patient care, and experience working with healthcare professionals and other decision makers.
• Minimum 5+ years' relevant experience in pharmaceutical industry Medical Affairs.
• Outstanding business acumen; knows the industry, Otsuka's business model and value proposition, key competitors, and other marketplace factors/dynamics.
• Able to identify solutions with the overall goal of improved patient outcomes.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; exhibits professional maturity, confidence, and competence.
• Strong conflict resolution skills: proven ability to achieve conflict resolution effectively and quickly with affected parties and work in a cross-functional environment.
• Ability to lead others and project teams strategically.
• Knows how to summarize and communicate complex information and business objectives in a concise and effective way during presentations and other interactions.
• Strong understanding of industry legal, regulatory, and compliance landscape.
• Ability to work in an ambiguous environment undergoing transformation.
• Demonstrates behaviors aligned with the Otsuka Corporate Brand including Perseverance, Unconventional Thinking, and Humility.