Roche

Medical Scientific Liaison  (West-Central Region, U.S.) 

Roche$133K — $247K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree with 5 years of experience or a Master's degree with 3 years or a PhD with 1 year of relevant experience.
  • Experience in cardiometabolism, neurology, infectious disease, or diabetes.
  • Strong laboratory leadership experience, especially in immunoassay or clinical chemistry.
  • Demonstrated ability to build relationships with healthcare professionals.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a primary scientific partner to regional KOLs and clinical stakeholders.
  • Build and maintain long-term partnerships to understand customer needs.
  • Lead scientific exchanges to gather insights for medical strategy.
  • Conduct KOL mapping and maintain documentation of interactions in CRM.
  • Deliver educational support and resources to clinicians and laboratorians.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to execute regional plans and facilitate launches.
  • Ensure scientific accuracy and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellness plans.
  • Flexible working arrangements.
  • Professional development opportunities.
  • Collaborative and innovative work environment.
  • Access to Roche's global network and resources.
Full Job Description
The Position

Medical Scientific Liaison (West-Central Region, U.S.)

A healthier future. Its what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. Thats what makes us Roche.

The Opportunity:

The Medical Scientific Liaison (MSL) is a field-based scientific leader who represents Roche Medical & Scientific Affairs to laboratory and clinical stakeholders across your assigned region.

In this role, you will serve as a trusted partner to laboratory directors, clinicians, and key decision-makers. You will translate complex diagnostic and clinical data into meaningful dialogue that advances patient care and informs regional and national medical strategy.

You will work closely with Sr. Scientific Managers and Sr. Medical Managers to help shape and execute an integrated medical plan grounded in real-world insights from the field. You will bring the voice of the customer to our medical plan and strategy. Your perspective will directly influence how we prioritize educational initiatives, support laboratories, and accelerate access to innovative diagnostics for patients.

This role sits within the Cardiometabolism/Neurology (Core Lab and NPC) team in Medical & Scientific Affairs and requires scientific depth, intellectual curiosity, and the ability to engage peers in high-level clinical and technical discussion.

While you may bring deep expertise in a specific disease area, you must be comfortable expanding into a variety of disease topics and continuously strengthening your scientific foundation and knowledge base. This is a role for someone who thrives in independent field engagement while contributing meaningfully to a collaborative, strategy-driven medical team.

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

  • Strategic Engagement: Serve as the primary scientific partner to regional KOLs, laboratories, and clinical stakeholders.

  • Relationship Management: Build and sustain trusted, long-term partnerships to understand evolving customer needs and gaps.

  • Insight Generation: Lead high-value scientific exchanges to capture actionable insights that inform medical strategy and portfolio planning.

  • KOL Mapping & CRM Excellence: Identify emerging leaders and maintain accurate, timely documentation of interactions and insights in SFDC.

  • Scientific Exchange & Education: Deliver impactful, non-promotional education to clinicians and laboratorians (in-person and virtual).

  • Tailored Educational Support: Assess needs and provide customized resources (e.g., presentations, pipeline updates, speaker programs, PACE).

  • Medical Expertise & Compliance: Maintain deep therapeutic knowledge and respond to unsolicited and off-label inquiries in line with compliance standards.

  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with medical and cross-functional teams to execute regional plans, support launches, and contribute to advisory boards and congress activities.

  • Medical Excellence & Team Contribution: Ensure scientific accuracy, share best practices, support onboarding, and drive continuous improvement across MSA.

Who You Are:

  • You are a scientifically credible, field-ready expert who is comfortable engaging laboratory directors, medical directors, clinical specialists, and senior clinical stakeholders as a peer. You operate independently, think strategically, and translate complex diagnostic and clinical data into meaningful dialogue that advances patient care.

  • Bachelors Degree and 5+ years clinical/practice/industry experience OR Masters Level Degree in Science + 3 years of related clinical/practice/industry experience OR PhD level degree + 1 year of related clinical/practice/industry experience

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience in Cardiometabolism, neurology, infectious disease, diabetes, disease areas

  • Knowledge of Immunoassay, clinical chemistry, mass spectrometry, or related field preferred; equivalent laboratory leadership experience will be considered

  • Prior experience in industry as a Medical Scientific Liaison, Scientific advisory, manager, R&D, Clinical sales or Clinical Laboratory Director/Manager

  • Ability to develop and maintain collegial relationships with Laboratory and other Healthcare Professionals

  • Ability to understand, interpret and present a wide range of scientific and medical topics

  • Ability to lead, direct, influence and empower multi-discipline teams and individuals in a matrixed organization

  • Ability to successfully interface with senior management (within and external to company)

  • Excellent oral and written communication skills

  • Ability to prioritize work

  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills

  • Strong judgment and decision making skills

  • Ability to develop and maintain deep relationships with thought leaders and customers

  • Ability to quantify metrics

Location: This is a field-based role. Preferred candidate locations include Denver, CO or Dallas-Fort Worth, TX.

Relocation benefits are not available for this job posting.

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of Indianapolis, IN is $133,200- $247,400. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law. A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance. This position also qualifies for the benefits detailed at the link provided below.

About Roche

Roche Holding AG is a Swiss multinational healthcare company that operates worldwide under two divisions: Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics. Its holding company, Roche Holding AG, has bearer shares listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange. The company headquarters are located in Basel. Roche is the largest pharmaceutical company in the world, and the leading provider of cancer treatments globally. The company also produces a range of diagnostic tests for medical professionals and patients. Roche was one of the first companies to bring targeted treatments to patients. In 2019, Roche had over 100,000 employees worldwide, and generated revenue of CHF 61.5 billion.
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