Medical Scientific Liaison Hematology

**Site Name**: Netherlands - Amersfoort
**Posted Date**: Aug 30 2024

**Job purpose**:
Through in-field scientific engagement with healthcare providers and external experts, the Medical Science Liaison (MSL) fosters a more educated healthcare environment by:

- Communicating their deep knowledge of GSK data in the context of overall patient care to ensure evidence-based understanding of the science behind GSK medicines and vaccines and by doing this optimize care across out therapy areas.
- Gathering and understanding the healthcare environment, the patient journey and unmet needs and evidence gaps.
- Generating and communicating the evidence and deliver solutions to close the gaps in care.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Be the scientific expert for hematology in The Netherlands.
- Engage in one-to-one scientific dialogue with external experts around GSK’s medicines, enabling them to confidently discuss with patients and the wider medical community and ensuring they are knowledgeable in identifying the right patient for the most appropriate medicines.
- Act as the interface between the professional healthcare community and the internal GSK medical team and its affiliates to bring in value-added insights that inform GSK Medical, Commercial, and Research & Development activities.
- Partner with the professional healthcare community and experts by setting up medical collaborations.
- Assist the medical team in the identification of external experts within the therapy area and be responsible for the external experts (EEs) in your area (work with EE plans).
- Provide scientific education training for business partners such as Key Account Managers.
- Act as an expert speaker at scientific events to disseminate information to larger groups of healthcare providers while stimulating clinical dialogue to gain different views and perspectives.
- Respond to unsolicited requests for Medical Information from healthcare providers in a fair, factual, balanced, and scientifically rigorous manner via the appropriate and preferred channel.
- Partner with matrix colleagues (e.g. sales, marketing, market access, etc.) to ensure strategies and business plans and account plans are both patient and business focused and adding value to the external expert.
- Disseminate important safety information to healthcare professionals as and when this emerges.
- Identify evidence gaps and set up, in collaboration with the Scientific Advisor or Medical Scientific Expert, evidence generation studies.
- Handle Investigator-Sponsored Studies (ISS) requests and provide necessary follow up.
- Support GSK study teams with the provision of scientific education and enquiry management from investigators and staff engaged in GSK-supported clinical trials (medical clinical collaboration.
- Maintain a level of expertise in the evolving scientific / therapeutic area and in competitor medicines and vaccines.
- Attend scientific meetings and congresses to keep abreast of the evolving science in hematology and to confidently debate and discuss the science with external experts as presented at the meeting.
- Fully understand and comply with GSK standards and policies and with local codes of practice, guidelines and laws to ensure the strictest requirements are met.

**Why you?**:
Basis qualifications:

- Degree in life sciences: MSc or equivalent, MD, PharmD and/or other professional healthcare provision qualification with experience (e.g. nurse practitioner, physician, surgeon, physiotherapist or pharmacist).
- A significant (>3 years) amount of pharmaceutical industry experience in a role successfully engaging in scientific exchange with external experts.
- Solid grounding in clinical, medical and pharmaceutical science with the ability to rapidly assimilate specific and detailed knowledge in these areas.
- Experience in evaluating and effectively communicating evidence-based medicine.

Preferred qualifications:

- Expertise in hematology and/or oncology.
- Strong academic background having participated in, or led research projects and authored publications.
- Demonstrated strong communication skills such as presenting at national or international congresses or strong history of previous working with external experts.
- Existing scientific relationship with key hematologist in The Netherlands.
- Can do mentality.
- Relationship builder-able to successfully engage in scientific exchange with external experts
- Effective communication skills and ability to tailor information to different audiences appropriately.
- Ability to translate complex science into simple messages.
- Ability to communicate through multiple channels e.g. webinars.
- Solid grounding in clinical, medical and pharmaceutical science with the ability to rapidly assimilate specific and detailed knowledge in these areas.
- An understanding of clinical development, and statistical design and analysis.
- Effective networking and collaboration skills to achieve business results.
- Strong busine