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Description
Syneos Health is the only fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization purpose-built to accelerate customer success. We lead with a product development mindset, seamlessly connecting our capabilities to add high-value insights to speed therapies to patients and provide practical value to help our customers achieve their objectives.
Our Clinical Development model brings the customer and the patient to the center of everything that we do. We are continuously looking for ways to simplify and streamline our work to not only make Syneos Health easier to work with, but to make us easier to work for.
Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you’ll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals. We are agile and driven to accelerate the delivery of therapies, because we are passionate to change lives.
Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know:
WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE
Why Syneos Health
- We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
- We are committed to our Total Self culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people.
- We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives – we’re able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.
Role Overview:
Representing the medical function, the MSL will act as a medical/clinical education liaison to external and internal stakeholders, while supporting commercial business and reimbursement objectives for the portfolio of products, most notably for breast, colorectal and lung cancers. This role will engage with customers and colleagues across medical affairs and commercial groups to provide medical and scientific support for our on-market as well as help launch newer products into the international region.
Near term business objectives include supporting growth of the Oncotype DX Breast Recurrence Score® assay by providing medical information and education through scientific exchange in a fair-balanced manner to Medical Oncology, Surgeons, and Pathology Key Opinion Leaders as well as other healthcare professionals. In addition, the role supports the company’s R&D and investigator-initiated studies in the development and commercialization of genomic assays that lead to improved treatment decisions for oncology patients.
To be an effective business partner MSLs develop and maintain outstanding knowledge of Sponsor products, competitor products, and other diagnostic options within therapeutic areas. MSLs must also maintain an in-depth understanding of the medical strategy and broader sponsor strategy to ensure their own activities are coordinated and aligned. MSLs must be professionals with integrity and scientific creditability to interact with thought leaders, government health authorities, and medical centers of excellence.
Role Responsibilities:
Inline Product & Team Support
- Deliver education of the broad healthcare provider (HCP) community, such as key opinion leaders (KOL’s), oncologists, pathologists, surgeons, nurses, and payors regarding sponsor products as permissible by local laws and regulations.
- Serves as external, credible scientific expert on disease area and sponsor products at HCP field meetings, key medical and scientific conferences, advisory boards, clinical investigator meetings and patient advocacy group meetings.
- Responds to unsolicited requests for medical information on sponsor products in a credible, balanced/objective manner.
- Participate in the development and execution of a KOL outreach plans.
- Identify and map KOL, other stakeholder, key accounts as well as patient referral patterns and pathways.
- Maintain and develop synergistic relationships with KOLs to expand research, advisory, and educational partnership opportunities.
- Support medical-marketing initiatives, such as conference planning and support, medical education content development, faculty speaker training, sales training, reimbursement initiatives.
- Work with medical directors to take complex medical messages and position them to enable clear and concise understanding by both external audiences and partners within sponsor.
- Stay abreast of new clinical developments, publications, and market trends to be a conduit for the greater medical team and other internal teams for review of these developments.
- Assist with set up and delivery of advisory boards, speaker trainings, and external payor reviews, as needed.
- Support preparation and presentation of medical review slides and materials at national sales meetings, pre-conference meetings, and field sales conference calls.
- Attend, develop summaries of, and present key medical findings from scientific congresses.
- Gather and interpret new clinical data from conferences and literature, as well as competitive intelligence, and report back on findings to medical affairs and marketing stakeholders.
Pipeline & Clinical Trials Support
- Identify physicians currently managing patients with breast, colorectal, lung cancer and cultivate a network of experts at academic and community centers to identify new trial sites and/or drive patient referrals and rapid enrolment.
- Delivers medical / scientific training to clinical study sites and provide input to key internal stakeholders on training materials for clinical trials, products in development, therapeutic areas, and disease state as outlined by the trial sponsor.
- Establishes and maintain strong working relationships with Principal Investigators (PIs) and clinical trial sites to support the enrollment and conduct of sponsor clinical studies. Facilitate escalation of investigator questions/concerns, recruitment/retention initiatives and clinical site & investigators meetings as it relates to recruitment strategies.
Qualifications
Job Requirements
At Syneos Health, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. At times, we will consider transferable skills from previous roles. We also encourage you to join our Talent Network to stay connected to additional career opportunities.
Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications
- Advanced degree in clinical specialty (PharmD, PhD, MD) with clinical experience.
- 3-5+ years’ experience as an MSL/CTL or senior clinical development role.
- 3+ years Oncology experience required.
- 3+ years of experience in pharmaceutical industry with knowledge of clinical research design and conduct
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in Diagnostics or Biotech industry is a plus.
- Skills in additional languages preferred
Skills
- Excellent oral, written, and presentation communication skills.
- Strong analytical skills and familiarity with medical messaging.
- Ability to independently deliver quality results in a timely manner.
- Ability to work as part of a team.
- Highest integrity and ethical behavior.
- Mutual respect for colleagues.
- Collaborative within teams; uses resources carefully and can build a great place to work and grow.
- Ability to interact within culturally diverse teams.
- Ability to integrate and apply feedback in a professional manner.
- Business acumen and innovative mindset.
- Support and comply with the company’s Quality Management System policies and procedures.
- Ability to manage though complexity and ambiguity, while focusing on the end goal.
- Ability to act with an inclusion mindset and model these behaviors for the organization.
- Maintain regular and reliable attendance.
Travel Requirements
- Ability to travel up to 60-70% of working time away from work location, may include overnight/weekend travel.
Get to know Syneos Health
Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.
No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.
Additional Information:
Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.
