Senior Medical Science Liaison

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

**Please read the requirement carefully before applying.**

Medical Science Liaisons (MSL) are field based medical professionals with deep content knowledge about specific disease states, Lilly and competitor compounds along with having knowledge on current issues in the therapeutic areas they represent. MSLs recognize and communicate feedback and insights of strategic importance from their interactions with Scientific Experts, to better inform Lilly’s strategic direction for research and commercialization. By facilitating scientific exchange between industry and the scientific community, MSLs have the opportunity to shape the future of healthcare by providing needed information that addresses important clinical and scientific questions.

**Level**:
P1-P3 (banded)

Note (for internal posting)

**Main Accountability/responsibility**

**Maintain and effectively communicate deep scientific knowledge**:

- Engage and ensure continuous learning to maintain the highest level of technical expertise within their respective therapeutic area. This will enable the MSL.
- Be equipped to answer deep scientific questions and be sought after by their customers based on peer-credible knowledge and expertise.
- To establish oneself as a reliable, trusted, resource of unbiased, accurate, up-to-date, medical and scientific knowledge requested and desired by customers.

**Excel at customer engagement and support medical/scientific information needs of scientific experts**:

- Ensure customer facing engagement through mutually beneficial 2-way dialogues with scientific experts.
- Connect scientific experts with Lilly resources or internal business partners as appropriate and identify possible collaborative research or external collaborations.

**Strategic vision and leadership**:

- Synthesize complex data and effectively communicate meaningful clinical insights and unanswered customer questions received from Scientific Experts to Lilly medical and cross -functional teams (CFT).
- Use reactive problem-solving skills and utilize internal resources effectively to execute upon solutions.
- Use a principle-based decision-making approach to make decisions independently or escalate them appropriately.
- Cultivate internal networks and collaborate effectively across functions with an active contribution to medical planning and strategy in the affiliate.

**Territory ownership**:

- Demonstrate strategic analysis, planning, and prioritization to maximize efficiency.
- Implement and evaluate a strategic territory plan prioritizing core activity and take personal accountability for results.
- Execute the role in a compliant manner, adhering to all governing internal and external requirements, procedures, and laws, demonstrating good judgement at all times.

**Professional Development**:

- Keep up to date on trainings for professional development
- Ensure myPM objectives are completed in line with company process
- Understanding and adherence to all company policies and procedures

**Educational Qualifications**

Core
- PharmD, BPharm, MD, or PhD in a medically related field
Or
- Masters or bachelors level degree in health sciences (e.g., BSN, RPh, PA, NP) with min of 1 or more years clinical, research or industry (medical/scientific role)

Desirable
- Masters degree in health sciences
- Preference to MD or PhD

**Knowledge and Experience**

Core:

- Min 2 years experience multinational pharma field or relevant medical field (clinical field)
- Proven experience to effectively collaborate with cross functional team
- Proven experience to engage with top thought leaders
- Knowledge and understanding of the MSL core job responsibilities
- Proven experience to work as an individual and team contributor

Desirable
- Previous experience as a medical science liaison or/and in metabolic therapeutic area
- Experience with academic communities, medical research, and medical education process

**Skills**
- Intellectual curiosity about the field of science/medicine for which they are responsible
- High learning agility to comprehend and effectively communicate large amounts of complex scientific content in a clear and concise fashion
- Independent contributor to be able to work alone in the field effectively managing multiple priorities and projects
- Advanced presentation and computer skills with expertise in literature identification
- Strategic and critical thinking in order to analyze, assess and eval