The Medical Science Liaison is a field based scientific expert who strategically supports the scientific and business objectives of a designated therapeutic area across the product life cycle for a specific geography/territory. The Medical Science Liaison is the primary communicators of AbbVie science within a specific geography with healthcare professionals. The Medical Science Liaison combines strong strategic vision clinical expertise, therapeutic area awareness, serving as a conduit of information to a cross functional customer base internally within AbbVie. The Medical Science Liaison develops and maintains professional relationships with internal and external customers to provide comprehensive medical and scientific support to AbbVie initiatives in assigned therapeutic areas. The Medical Science Liaison facilitates the exchange of scientific information, education, and research activities for physicians and ancillary healthcare professionals regarding current and future therapies
Responsibilities
- Focus on mastery of scientific content, materials, disease state and therapeutic area to establish themselves as a scientific expert.
- Identify, develop, and maintain professional relationships with thought leaders, academic centers, and researchers in assigned areas of therapeutic interest to ensure access to current medical and scientific information on the designated therapeutic/product area.
- Present scientific information and education relative to disease state, therapeutic landscape, and AbbVie products across the product lifecycle to healthcare professionals including physicians, academic institutions, researchers, and other health care professionals.
- Support research initiatives as requested by AbbVie R&D, Clinical Operations, and Medical Affairs Departments and physician-initiated projects including, but not limited to, site evaluation and identification, recruitment, investigator meetings, external expert identification, and external collaboration management.
- Serve as internal medical and scientific resource to assigned therapeutic/product areas for development of disease-state and product communications and materials that are medically accurate, balanced, and consistent with regulatory guidelines.
- Create, maintain, and collaborate in relationships with internal cross-functional partnerships. Work with in-field commercial teams, as appropriate, to develop and execute account plans designed to support and meet shared business objectives.
- Support and provide on-going training to medical affairs, field sales and other internal personnel as directed. Ensure up-to-date clinical knowledge of product use and competitor data as a scientific expert in the therapeutic area and treatment landscape.
- Practices core capabilities in strategic segmentation, as well as optimal resource utilization.
- Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and Procedure, including accurate and timely documentation as it relates to HCP (Healthcare Professionals) interactions. Responsible for maintaining annual expenses within assigned budget parameters.