Medical Science Liaison & Medical Advisor, Rare Disease Alpine (Switzerland & Austria)

Medical Science Liaison & Medical Advisor, 

Rare Disease Alpine (Switzerland & Austria)

Reports to:Medical Affairs Lead, Alpine

Territory:Switzerland/Austria, field-based

This is what you will do:

The hybrid position asMedical Science Liaison (MSL) & Medical Advisor (MA) will be an integral part of the Central and North Europe (CENE) medical affairs team and will be responsible for the Rare DiseasePortfolio in Switzerland and Austria. The MSL/MA will focus on maintainingand expanding professional scientific relationships with the local healthcare community and network as HCPs, pharmacy’s managers, key hospital’s decision makers, communicating scientific, clinical and health economic information in a balanced and objective way and implementing medical field activities as planned in the corresponding therapeutic area.

You will be responsible for:

• Strengthen, develop, and maintain strong relationship with Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs)

• Engage, educate, and create advocacy among HCPs, KOLs, PAOs, decision makers at key institutions representing Alexion Medical Affairs withscientific activities. 

• Contribute to the development of the medical plan and implement medical affairs tactics for the therapy area(s), including advisory boards, registry meetings, hospital presentations, patient support program. 

• Maintain a high knowledge of product, disease state, and applicable global regulatory expertisein order to provide the highest input for understanding current and future positioning aims of the brand.

• Provide scientific/medical information in time to both internal clients and external customers in most up-to-date and balanced way

• Proactively identify needs for promotional/ educational materials and discuss with brand team

• Provide support for the development, review, and approval of presentation materials for scientific meetings, symposia, and other Medical Education activities (external).

• National and international travel required (approximately 70% of time)

Stakeholder engagement

• Provide scientific engagement by providing evidence-based information and discussing novel solutions with key stakeholders. 

• Prepare medical field activity planand support the development of the Austrian & Swiss Medical Plans,according to collected insights from the key stakeholders and in alignment with the cross-functional key account plan.

• Lead scientific discussions to build mini dossier for inclusion of the related treatment in Hospital formularies and/or definition of treatment algorithm

• Participate in the development and implementation of local national registries and local evidence generation programs emphasizing in Real Word Evidence.

Cross functional work

• Develop and maintainhighly effective cross-functional collaboration with other departments (e.g. clinical, commercial, market access, marketing, legal)

• Support cross-functional teams to ensure patient-focused activities, including timely responses to specific internal and external requests to discuss specific situations. 

• Being part of launch readiness team, provide insights and feedback from external stakeholders to build a meaningful medical launch plan.

• Provide appropriate and timely medical support to clinical operations, commercial, market access team among other teams, in line with local standards and regulations and internal policies.

• Provide insights into HEOR and comparative effectiveness research and budget impact models to support formulary and coverage decisions.

You will need to have:

• Advanced degree in medical science MD, PharmD or PhD

• At least 2 - 4 years of experience as MSL or Medical Advisor

• Knowledge of clinical development (clinical trials, registries, RWE)

• Knowledge of local pharmaceutical regulations (Pharmacodex, etc.)

• Solutions oriented and ability to work in a complex environment

• Excellent communication skills with proven ability to deliver impactful presentations

• Fluency in English and German is required

We would prefer for you to have:

• Experience with budget and financial planning

• Experience with related TAs (rare disease setting), and understanding of drug development and life-cycle development?strongly preferred

• IT skills, utilization of digital tools

• Experience with personalized medicine/ patients support programs

• Launch experience 

• Market access experience 

• Fluency in French

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.