Medical Science Liaison - Hematology (Myelofibrosis/Rare Disease)

Company: GlaxoSmithKline
Location: Durham
Posted on: April 14, 2025

Job Description:

Site Name: Field Worker - USAPosted Date: Apr 11 2025Job Territory: This is a field-based role covering our West Region, CA, OR, WA, HI, NV, ID, AK with preferred residence in California. Qualified candidates must reside in a metropolitan area with access to an international airport.The Medical Science Liaison Hematology (Myelofibrosis/Rare Disease) is a pivotal field-based role that serves as a bridge between the company and the healthcare community. This non-promotional, customer-facing position focuses on advancing clinical practice within an assigned territory to improve patient outcomes. The MSL brings deep clinical and therapeutic expertise and market/landscape knowledge to engage with Healthcare Providers (HCPs) and account personnel, in alignment with GSK's strategic medical plans.Key objectives of the MSL include engaging with various community and academic opinion leaders facilitating scientific exchange and serving as a medical resource. These scientific interactions aim to ensure that patients have access to GSK medicines, promote their safe and appropriate use through peer-to-peer discussions, close gaps in unmet medical needs, and align with our medical strategies and the needs of the HCPs they engage.The MSL role is crucial for identifying disease and product-related medical needs, ensuring the exchange of scientific knowledge, capturing and communicating medical insights, and facilitating research to advance clinical practice. This role will be focused on the Hematology (Myelofibrosis/Rare Disease) therapeutic areas.Key Responsibilities:This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following:

• Leverage scientific expertise and market knowledge to identify and engage HCPs (including academic and community HCPs, Pharmacists, Physician Assistants, nurses, and other healthcare professionals) who may have educational needs and can provide insights needed to inform medical plans.
• Engage with HCPs on emerging data, clinical trials, medical unmet needs, patient barriers to access, market dynamics, and educate on disease state and product information.
• Contribute to medical strategy by collecting and communicating medical insights throughout the product lifecycle and understanding the potential impact of these insights.
• Demonstrate strategic territory planning and management and appropriate identification, mapping, and planning of scientific engagements in territory with key accounts and aligned with medical strategy.
• Support clinical trials by facilitating relevant medical activities and collaborating with Medical Affairs and Clinical Operations colleagues.
• Collaborate with internal colleagues (e.g., Medical Affairs, marketing, commercial, sales) to ensure a customer-centric approach aligned with GSK Standard Operating Procedures.
• Understand and address the unique medical needs and attributes of accounts (e.g. educational needs, pathways).
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of assigned therapeutic areas and GSK medicines to serve as a medical resource to both customers and internal colleagues. Understand the landscape and prepare to address educational needs of customers.
• Adhere to GSK's Code of Conduct, policies and standards, and relevant way of working documents. Ensure all activities are conducted in a compliant manner, reflecting GSK's commitment to transparency, respect, integrity and patient focus.
• Execute all administrative responsibilities, training, and documentation requirements in a timely manner.
• Participate in Field Medical and cross-enterprise projects and teams that support Medical strategies and tactics.Minimum Qualifications:We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
  • Doctorate level with a medical or clinical focus (Pharm D, PHD, or MD) or advanced science/clinical/healthcare related degree with relevant clinical, industry and/or oncology experience (e.g., MSN, ANP, MS, MPH).
  • Two or more years' experience in pharmacology and pharmacotherapy in humans and has experience practically applying this knowledge in a Hematology focused clinical setting.
  • Pharmaceutical industry, or clinical education, or medical liaison experience.
  • Experience engaging in peer-to-peer Scientific Exchange with medical professionals and decision makers.
  • Experience in delivering medical-based presentations.
  • Experience identifying opportunities for medical engagement and developing scientific engagement goals.
  • Experience developing relationships with external HCPs, KOLs, and external experts and with internal stakeholders and key decision makers.
  • Must live within territory specified in this job posting.
  • Ability to manage a large multi-state territory with 60-75% travel.Preferred Qualifications:If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
    • Pharmaceutical industry or medical liaison experience.
    • Previous clinical experience in situations where direct/or indirect decision-making authority for patient care was demonstrated (e.g., direct patient care, treatment protocol development, drug therapy guidelines development, traditional clinical pharmacy practice settings).
    • Proven track record of consistent, high performance.
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