Medical Science Liaison - CNS

Updated: October 17, 2024
Location: London, ENG, United Kingdom
Job ID: 6231

You are a listener, an educator, and a gifted cultivator of new and exciting opportunities grounded in science.

This opportunity serves as the primary field-based point of contact for external stakeholders, and is responsible for providing non-promotional scientific, educational, and research support for clinical studies. The primary focus of this role is to engage with the healthcare/scientific community to advance clinical development programs and help identify and support acceleration of clinical study completion through identification of new clinical sites and trial site support, patient enrolment, and retention.

You will:

• Raise awareness and advance pipeline and clinical development programs among HCPs and develop collaborative relationships.
• Develop and execute an external stakeholder engagement plan (within scope of ongoing and planned clinical studies).
• Establish and maintain strong working relationships with Principal Investigators (PIs) and clinical trial sites to support as per clinical and medical affairs leadership direction.
• Respond to scientific queries from HCPs and for pipeline products in development, based on Medical Affairs, RD, and Medical Information documents.
• Work with stakeholders and trial sites to understand and conduct medical/scientific exchange with investigators and site staff to establish and maintain awareness of company development programs and support clinical studies.
• Inform development and study teams of external perception, opportunities, and barriers. Facilitate communication between sites and study teams as required.
• Attend and support regional, national, and international scientific congresses per medical affairs plan and priorities.
• Identify physicians currently managing patients and cultivate a network of experts at academic and community centres to identify new trial sites.
• Facilitate referral network activities on request of study investigators to drive patient referrals and rapid enrolment.

Requirements:

• Experience as an MSL or Clinical Development experience.
• Advanced degree (MD, PhD, PharmD) highly preferred.
• Experience in CNS required, expertise in Epilepsy highly desirable.
• Knowledge of clinical research design and GCP in the CNS area.
• Demonstrated strong understanding of local healthcare systems, treatment guidelines in assigned geographies/countries.
• Demonstrated ability to develop trust and maintain integrity with KOLs/External Clinical and Scientific Experts, investigators, HCPs, and institutions; as well as with peers and others.

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.

Why Syneos Health? Each life we positively impact makes our work worthwhile. By joining one of our field medical teams, you will partner with some of the most talented clinicians in the industry and be reminded why you chose a career in healthcare. The diversification and breadth of our new and existing partnerships create a multitude of career paths and employment opportunities. Join our game-changing, global company dedicated to creating better, smarter, faster ways to get biopharmaceutical therapies to patients.

Syneos Health companies are affirmative action/equal opportunity employers (Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabled).