Senior Medical Science Liaison, Nephrology - NC, SC, VA

Position Overview

The Senior Medical Science Liaison (Associate Director) 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 patients' groups within their ecosystem to further patient outcomes aligned with the overarching objectives of Otsuka.

Key Activities And Responsibilities

• Contributes a clinical and scientific perspective to the local execution plan addressing ecosystem, and customer challenges, issues, and opportunities, to bring about improved patient care and outcomes.
• Coordinates around execution of field activities.
• Built, cultivates, and leverages external relationships with key scientific and medical customers and organizations within their ecosystem to ensure strong understanding of evolving healthcare trends, disease state, Otsuka products, systems, and services across the ecosystem landscape, including KIs, LPLs, Key Decision Makers (KDMs) and Patient Advocacy.
• Delivers on business objectives that go beyond the ecosystem and impacts the FMA region.
• 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, payers, and other key stakeholders to apply practical real-world solutions to improve patient outcomes.
• Engages stakeholders at the ecosystem level that has some influence across the FMA regional level.
• Builds and cultivates important internal working relationships across the matrix team to ensure an enterprise approach when working with customers.
• Actively contributes to planning, content development, and dissemination of disease state information to customers in the field on a regular basis using the remote customer engagement platform.
• Leads special projects (eg, lead for PsychU/NephU subteam) and takes on incremental point roles within FMADisseminates disease state and healthcare landscape information to customers in the field on a regular basis utilizing remote customer engagement platform.
• Responsible for delivering the training and evaluation of promotional and disease state speakers.
• Serves as part of Otsuka’s internal speaker bureau in support of product educational needs across the ecosystem.
• Collects and submits medical insights that drive decision making and prioritization of 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.
• Participates as mentor in peer functional and therapeutic development including new hires.
• 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 hire and POAs, and the Field Medical Center of Excellence for mentoring and sharing of best practices.

  Qualifications

  • Advanced degree in Pharmacy, Medicine, Biological Sciences, Health Services Research or Public Health, (PharmD., M.D., PhD. or D.Ph.) is required.
  • Relevant therapeutic area knowledge is required.
  • Deep understanding of the interconnectivity of health systems, overall delivery of patient care and experience working with healthcare professionals and other decision makers.
  • Minimum of 5-7 years related work experience (clinical, health system or industry).
  • 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.

  Business Travel

  Up to 70% of time depending upon size of ecosystem.

  Company Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage
  • Company provided basic life, accidental death & dismemberment, short-term and long-term disability insurance
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Student loan assistance
  • A generous 401(k) match
  • Flexible time off
  • Paid holidays
  • Paid leave programs

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  This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by the people assigned to this position. It is not intended to include every job duty and responsibility specific to the position. Otsuka reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet business and organizational needs as necessary. Otsuka is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will be given consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity or gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, national origin, veteran status, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristic. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you may request a reasonable accommodation, if you are unable or limited in your ability to apply to this job opening as a result of your disability. You can request reasonable accommodations by contacting Accommodation Request.

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