Medical Science Liaison (MSL)

Application deadline:  
Location: Houston 77002, Texas, United States 
Contract type: Permanent 
Job ID: 2123 

Overall Objective: 

This role will serve as the medical point of contact for Region US with assigned national and regional payer organizations engaging in clinical, health economics and health outcomes interactions. 

Role & Responsibilities: 

• The Medical Outcome Liaison (MOL) role is a remote-based posi-tion within the Field Medical Outcomes group housed in the United States Medical Affairs organization.

• In this role, you will be the lead medical, health economics, and health outcomes point of contact with regional and national health care payers, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), integrated deliv-ery networks, and health systems. You will proactively and reac-tively engage payer/PBM executives and their designates (from pharmacy, medical, quality, value assessment, etc.), external scien-tific experts, and relevant business influencers in clinical and health outcome based information for all portfolio and pipeline products to inform access and reimbursement decisions.

• You will provide medical leadership and develop medical account strategies and action plans for each of the portfolio and pipeline products and collaborate closely with a team of National and Re-gional Account Managers.

• You will consistently promote and demonstrate strong cross-func-tional teamwork with field-based and headquarters-based medical and commercial colleagues to meet customer needs with the high-est levels of quality and customer-focused support. · Building ensuring partnerships is a must with internal colleagues as well as with customer executives, decision-makers, and scientific experts, and key influencers.

• Bring value to customers by leveraging the expertise of your col-leagues when relevant to customer discussions and responses to customer’s requests. Also, ensure that you are always on top of your game by being a continuous learner- combing the disease state literature, staying abreast of health policy changes and trends, new data on company products and competitors, and methodologies for generating health economics and real-world ev-idence.

• Teach others in the company- share your expertise and stake your claim internally as the “go to” person for critical topics. · Continuously improve the quality of customer engagements and help carve-out a strong reputation in the industry as a “best in class” health outcomes team. Being stagnant is not an option.
   

Requirements:

• Advanced scientific or clinical degree (PhD, MD, DO, PharmD, MS, MPH) or related health science field and a minimum of 7 years of experience, with advanced training

• Region: National Accounts and Central US Regional Accounts

• At least 3-5 years of payer/health care consulting/health policy/phar-maceutical/biotech/medical device industry relevant experience

• Market access and/or account facing managed market experience · Preferably have experience in a field based Medical Affairs role focusing on payer needs and a working knowledge of advanced IDN accounts and National/Regional accounts

• Working knowledge of health policy, and healthcare trends impacting the healthcare industry, including quality of care, performance measures, value-based reimbursement and payment models, care coor-dination, various payer segments (private and public), and managed markets

• Experience conducting and presenting research studies

• Bonus: established network of relationships with payers

• Excellent knowledge and command of clinical trial design and method-ology, observational study designs, epidemiology, biostatistics, value frameworks and health economic principles Behavioral Competencies:

• Demonstrated leadership skills including critical thinking, acting conclu-sively, driving accountability, and working reciprocally to influence and engage internal and external partners to deliver overall business impact

• Demonstrated business acumen, with ability to simplify complex topics to drive decision-making

• Ability to work across multiple products

• Ability to multi-task and manage several account plans and needs, in-ternal/external deadlines with a strong sense of urgency

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to articu-late and defend the full clinical value proposition for assigned brands

• Able to work independently in a home office environment (without in-terruptions or significant distractions during normal business hours) with up to 70% travel; proximity to a major airport desirable

• Experienced in account planning with ability to effectively work along-side commercial and other functions to develop robust account plans which include.

• Deep understanding of pharmaceutical industries’ regulatory and com-pliance environment and shown history of operating integrity

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