Head of MSL (Medical Science Liaisons) @ Pharmanovia

Head of MSL

Basildon, Essex

Salary: Competitive + Benefits + Bonus

If you are an experienced Medical Affairs professional with a talent for leading and coordinating Medical Science Liaisons, then we want to hear from you!

Join us to help improve peoples’ lives and make healthcare better for everyone!

Why Pharmanovia?

Pharmanovia is a dynamic, fast-growing international pharmaceutical company with a portfolio of over 20 brands across more than 140 markets. Our mission is to improve patient health globally through the revitalisation of niche, tried-and-trusted medicines.

Since its inception in 2013, Pharmanovia has grown consistently year on year, focusing on delivering high-quality branded prescription medicines to patients, prescribers, and healthcare providers across the world. Our growth has enabled the company to reinvest in its products, brands, people, and to give back to its communities. A people business with a strong, supportive culture that encourages innovation and entrepreneurial spirit, our team comprises over 250 employees and 29 nationalities, operating from offices in the UK, Denmark, Netherlands, Switzerland, U.A.E., India, Singapore, Italy, and South Korea.

We are an agile and imaginative global specialty pharma business and a preferred partner for innovator pharma companies, instigating a paradigm shift in the life cycle management of iconic medicines. We seek to extensively engage with clinical communities to communicate product improvements and prioritise environmental, social, and governance considerations across the business and workforce.

Pharmanovia’s therapeutic areas include Cardiovascular, Oncology, Endocrinology and Neurology.

About the role:

Reporting to the Chief Science Officer, you will lead and coordinate a team of Medical Science Liaisons, whose primary responsibility is to interact with influential healthcare providers who are on the forefront of their relative therapeutic specialties.

The Head of MSLs will collaborate with physicians and other medical experts to support trial enrolment, provide protocol training, and ensure that healthcare professionals have the most up-to-date information about medical and clinical benefits of Pharmanovia’s products.

You will oversee the retention and operation of appropriate Advisory Committees, constructed to ensure the company’s development activities are guided by Medical Experts to ensure development activities focus on generating products that fit their needs.

Main responsibilities & duties:

• Setting up strategies to target the most relevant HCPs for Pharmanovia’s therapeutic efforts and coordinate and align key messages to position Pharmanovia as a credible partner and provider of effective treatments and medicines
• Developing and maintaining peer-to-peer collaborations and relationships with key medical experts in the therapeutic areas covered by Pharmanovia
• Supporting clinical development initiatives including potential investigator site identification, trial recruitment, registry, and presentation of final approved data, involving experts to generate scientific data including investigator-initiated trials
• Collaborating with physicians on medical affairs initiatives including publication and communication plans, advisory boards, medical education opportunities, training, and speaker development
• Serving as a scientific peer-to-peer resource to external disease experts and internal stakeholders
• Supporting the medical community with up-to-date medical information, robust disease expertise, and product information
• Communicating clinical insights on new data to the company Medical Affairs and informing medical strategy for the therapeutic area
• Coordinating the gathering of insights from HCPs to support business strategy such as new product development and market access
• Developing a strategy to train internal stakeholders on key scientific and medical topics
• Developing an understanding of the international landscape including specialties involved in care of patients
• Generating tactical regional plans to provide needs-based, value-added support of the medical and scientific community in-line with company goals
• Using systems to strategically map, identify, profile, and prioritize thought leaders in line with the medical plan and goals
• Responsibility for ensuring education and thus needs to ensure the team of MSLs are credible scientific experts in their given therapeutic area and in the product/s itself
• Maintaining accurate reporting and documentation of MSL activities

About you:

• An advanced scientific degree
• Medically trained in one of Pharmanovia’s therapeutic areas
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to set clear and challenging goals while committing the organisation to improved performance, tenacious and accountable in driving results
• Effective leader and developer of talent, able to motivate through inspiration and purpose, while maintaining the appropriate focus on performance and delivery
• The inclination to seek and analyse data from a variety of sources to support decisions and to align others with the organisation’s overall strategy
• Good judgement and a strong decision maker
• Knowledge of compliance requirements and adherence to all relevant standards
• An entrepreneurial approach to developing new, innovative ideas that will stretch the organization and push the boundaries within the industry

What we offer:

We offer a competitive salary plus bonus and rewards package including holiday, health & wellbeing program, employee recognition awards, social events, pension scheme and hybrid working.

By applying for this role, your details will be sent to Ortolan People, who are engaged to provide recruitment support in processing applications. We will endeavour to respond to all applicants within three working days. Occasionally for roles with a very high volume of applicants, this may not be possible.