Senior MSL - East Territory

Valneva

$120K — $145K *
Miami, FL 33186In-Person
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Advanced degree in a clinical or scientific discipline (MD, DO, PharmD, PhD, etc.) with significant experience.
  • 5+ years in Medical Affairs or related fields, focusing on infectious diseases and vaccines.
  • 3+ years of experience as a field medical liaison preferred, managing complex stakeholder relationships.
  • Proficient in discussing clinical evidence with healthcare experts.
  • Expertise in vaccines or infectious diseases, especially in public health contexts.
  • Strong autonomous work ethic and ability to effectively manage a wide geographical territory.
  • Exceptional skills in scientific communication and relationship management.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute a medical strategy for the Eastern U.S. region focused on stakeholder engagement.
  • Establish long-term partnerships with leading experts in infectious diseases and related fields.
  • Conduct scientific exchanges on epidemiology, vaccine efficacy, and clinical evidence.
  • Provide scientifically accurate responses to medical information requests under compliance regulations.
  • Capture and communicate external insights to inform strategies and educational initiatives.
  • Identify research opportunities and collaborate on study feasibility and execution.
  • Support medical education efforts and field-medical initiatives.

Benefits

  • Good team spirit in a strong and highly motivated team.
Full Job Description
The Senior Medical Science Liaison (MSL), Eastern Territory, is a senior field medical role responsible for scientific engagement with external stakeholders across the Eastern 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.

Benefits

Good team spirit in a strong and highly motivated team

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