The Senior Medical Science Liaison (MSL), Central Territory, is a senior field medical role responsible for scientific engagement with external stakeholders across Central United States. The role serves as a credible, accessible scientific partner to healthcare professionals, key external experts, researchers, public-health leaders, and healthcare-system decision-makers.
Requirements- Lead the development and execution of a territory-specific medical strategy for the Eastern U.S., prioritizing scientific engagement, evidence needs, and stakeholder impact.
- Establish long-term peer-to-peer partnerships with leading infectious-disease physicians, travel-medicine specialists, vaccinologists, epidemiologists, academic centers, public-health professionals, and other relevant stakeholders.
- Conduct proactive and responsive scientific exchange on disease epidemiology, preventive-vaccine science, clinical development, efficacy, safety, and real-world evidence.
- Provide balanced and accurate scientific responses to unsolicited requests for medical information, within approved policies and applicable regulations.
- Systematically capture, synthesize, and communicate external insights that may inform medical strategy, evidence generation, educational initiatives, clinical development, and access planning.
- Identify research opportunities, potential investigators, and qualified study sites; collaborate with internal partners to support research feasibility and execution.
- Support compliant medical education, advisory boards, scientific congress engagement, and other field-medical initiatives.
- Serve as an internal scientific resource on the Eastern regional landscape, including emerging evidence, clinical-practice variation, stakeholder priorities, and public-health dynamics.
- Collaborate constructively with cross-functional colleagues while maintaining the scientific independence, compliance standards, and non-promotional character of Medical Affairs.
- Support internal scientific training and provide expert input into medical-review, planning, and launch-readiness activities as appropriate.
- Maintain current knowledge of peer-reviewed literature, clinical guidelines, vaccine-policy developments, and the infectious-disease landscape.
- Recognize, document, and promptly report adverse events, product complaints, and other reportable safety information.
Esseential Qualifications/ Experience- Advanced degree in a relevant clinical or scientific discipline, such as MD, DO, PharmD, PhD, DNP, NP, PA, MPH with substantial scientific/clinical experience, or equivalent.
- Five or more years of relevant experience in Medical Affairs, vaccines, infectious disease, clinical development, epidemiology, public health, or the biopharmaceutical industry.
- Three or more years of field medical/MSL experience preferred, with demonstrated success managing complex scientific stakeholder networks.
- Experience discussing clinical evidence with sophisticated external experts and explaining study design, endpoints, limitations, safety data, and real-world relevance.
- Expertise in vaccines, infectious diseases, epidemiology, travel medicine, immunization policy, or a related therapeutic area.
- Strong ability to work autonomously, prioritize strategically, manage a geographically broad territory, and operate effectively in a matrix organization.
- Exceptional scientific communication, presentation, insight-generation, and relationship-management capabilities.
- Willingness and ability to travel extensively throughout the Eastern U.S.; residence near a major airport is strongly preferred.
BenefitsGood team spirit in a strong and highly motivated team
