The Medical Science Liaison (MSL) Director West will lead and manage a high-performing team of MSLs to drive field medical business performance and advance our company’s strategic medical objectives. This role requires a dynamic leader with strong scientific and business acumen as well as interpersonal skills who can ensure the highest quality scientific engagement with the healthcare community. The MSL Director will play a pivotal role in having a tangible impact on improving patient outcomes and contributing to our ultimate vision at ViiV to end the HIV and AIDS epidemic.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following:

• Team Leadership and Management: Lead, oversee, coach, mentor and provide guidance to a team of MSLs to ensure high levels of scientific engagement, performance, and professional growth as well as effective territory management.
• People Leadership and Development: Recruit, develop and retain key talent, building an organization that reflects a diverse and inclusive workforce.
• Strategic Planning & Execution: Accountable for the direction and execution of MSL’s strategic medical objectives and territory plans. Provide oversight of all MSL territory plans
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional business partners to enhance team effectiveness and drive overall team performance ensuring cross-functional ways of working with R&D, Headquarters Medical and Commercial teams.
• Scientific Expertise: Responsible for scientific knowledge and expertise of self and team; Maintains clinical knowledge of the HIV therapeutic area and broad market knowledge including current treatment strategies, current and pending competitors, pipeline, access and coverage and market trends.
• Scientific Engagement: Establish and maintain a robust MSL interface with external experts, healthcare professionals, and industry experts to gather insights and drive high quality scientific engagement.
• Business Performance: Analyze and leverage scientific data to provide actionable insights that support business development, product strategies, and regional/global clinical development strategies for Phase II through IV clinical plans.
• Training and Development: Ensure MSLs are well-trained with the latest scientific information and core industry compliance standards; Cultivate MSL proficiency in core competencies and develop direct reports in the field by conducting quarterly coaching visits with each team member.
• Compliance and Quality: Responsible for team compliance of all MSL activities with applicable regulatory guidelines and company policies, maintaining the highest standards of integrity and ethical conduct. Ensures scientific and medical integrity of US MSL responses as well as appropriate documentation by team of EE/HCP interactions and responses to unsolicited requests.
• Clinical Trial Support: Lead MSL support of ViiV US sponsored and supported research in specific region, including identifying and selecting appropriate investigators to participate in clinical trials, providing support to Clinical teams and investigators to increase subject enrollment, retention, and site performance.
• Reporting and Metrics: Measure, monitor and provide performance feedback on the execution of MSL activities according to the US Medical Affairs plan.
• Risk Management: Provide medical coordination of appropriate regional risk management activities for ViiV Healthcare the respective US MSL team.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Advanced degree in medical OR health sciences OR clinical discipline (MD, DO, PharmD, NP, PA)
• 5 plus years of experience in medical affairs leadership with 3 plus years of field medical experience
• Travel 50% plus

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• HIV Expertise
• 2+ years field medical team leadership experience
• Experience with strategic business planning and execution.
• Effective communication, negotiation and influencing skills, strong stakeholder engagement and relationships, leadership, and communication skills; proven ability to build high-performing teams that excel through their engagement skills and scientific and medical expertise
• Thorough understanding of the pharmaceutical industry, medical and scientific knowledge, and regulatory requirements.

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Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program ViiV offers US employees. All ViiV employees receive the same benefits options and plans as GSK employee.

Why Us?

At ViiV Healthcare, we will not rest until we leave no person living with HIV behind. Until the 39 million people living with HIV is down to zero, we will continue searching for new ways to limit the impact of HIV. 

We are the only pharmaceutical company solely focused on combating, preventing, and ultimately eradicating HIV and AIDS. At ViiV Healthcare, we do things differently. Born out of a partnership between GSK and Pfizer in 2009, with Shionogi joining in 2012, we are determined to help end the HIV epidemic. We are guided by our mission to leave no person living with HIV behind and it is this mission that unites our employees located across the globe. We combine expertise in research, manufacturing, policy and more to push the boundaries of what people think is possible in HIV treatment and care. As a result of our connection with GSK, we are able to draw on their proud history and resources. This means that you would receive all the employee benefits offered by GSK.

Living our mission of leaving no person living with HIV behind means keeping inclusion and diversity at the heart of everything we do - from our breakthrough innovation, to our diverse portfolio of medicines as well as the work we do to partner with HIV communities. Having a diverse team and a truly inclusive culture where we’re all able to be ourselves and feel like we belong will make us an even stronger team, better able to perform as a business and deliver on our mission to leave no person living with HIV behind.

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