Medical Science Liaison

**Job description**:
**Company Description: (Business Overview)**

**Johnson & Johnson**:
Caring for the world, one person at a time has inspired and united the people of Johnson & Johnson for over 125 years. We embrace research and science - bringing innovative ideas, products and services to advance the health and well-being of people. Employees of the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies work with partners in health care to touch the lives of over a billion people every day, throughout the world.

Thriving on a diverse company culture, celebrating the uniqueness of **our employees** and committed to inclusion. Proud to be an equal opportunity employer. And our culture is interconnected by the shared values of **Our Credo**. It’s a culture that celebrates **diversity** and diverse perspectives. It helps employees achieve an effective mix between work and home life and supports their efforts to have a positive impact on their communities.

**Summary of the job:**:**Duties & Responsibilities**

To maximize company product value through high scientific quality communication with Leading Specialists on a peer-to-peer basis. Through activities in line with the Medical Affairs Plan, the MSL is jointly responsible for the realization of short-term and long-term company goals.

To be a therapeutic area scientific expert, responsible for discussing our products, patients’ treatment trends and studies in the therapeutic areas in which we are involved, on a peer-to-peer basis with defined audience of Leading Specialists (Physicians, Pharmacists, Hospital Managers, Board Members of Scientific Societies, and other partners) and to be considered a trusted scientific counterpart.

To keep abreast of the **medical** **and** **scientific** **knowledge.**
- Continuously update their knowledge of products, patient’s treatment trends and clinical activities and studies conducted within the therapeutic area in their region.
- Development and maintenance of a **contact** **network** **with** **Leading** **Specialists**.
- Understands their needs, key value drivers, practical treatment patterns and scientific activities within therapeutic area
- Communicates value of company products, incl. formulary discussions
- Through scientific interactions, champions medical benefits of products and contribute to foster innovative approaches
- Represents the company within therapeutic area professional associations in cooperation with Medical Advisor/ Medical Director
- **Proactive** **and** **reactive** **communication** of medical scientific data to Leading Specialists and broader external health-care related audiences:

- Communicates directly and proactively scientific information on our products within the approved label
- Communicates non-promotional general information about our company, including description of research and development programs
- Responds to unsolicited scientific queries of customers for approved products and products/indications in development, based on Medical Affairs and Medical Information documents
- Organization and participation in **Medical** **Education** **activities**:

- Identify/support/educate speakers
- Build Medical Education programs with scientific third party
- Organization and participation in **Advisory** **Boards** in cooperation with Medical Advisor/Medical

Director.
- Provision of **scientific** **support** **to** **company** **Sales** **Representatives**:

- Provides medical and product training and scientific support to Sales Representatives in coordination with Training Department as appropriate
- Acts as a reference point to Sales Representatives for any scientific query, in collaboration with Medical Information as appropriate.
- Support Medical Affairs **study** **execution**:

- Supports the set up and follow up of registries and other non-interventional Medical Affairs studies.
- Proposes investigators and sites for interventional and non-interventional Medical Affairs studies.
- Participates in investigator meetings preparation, recruitment follow-up and study result

presentation.
- Receives investigator proposals for IIS and to ensure they are discussed within the Medical

Affairs department for decision.
- Through scientific interactions, **gain** **valuable** **insight** into treatment patterns, and scientific activities in the therapeutic area and provide input to the company Medical Affairs Plan / business decision-making.

**Qualifications**
**Experience Required**:

- Pharmacists/Physician with postgraduate studies is required
- Experience as medical science liaison in international pharmaceutical company is an advantage
- Minimum 2 years’ experience in pharmaceutical company
- Scientific acumen and communication skills in order to be accepted by Leading Specialists in peer
- to-peer relationship. Preferably with pharmaceutical industry experience.
- Highly customer focused with an awareness of the importance of business results
- Innovative with the ability to c