Medical Science Liaison - Immunology

Kedrion Biopharma is a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the development, production and distribution of plasma-derived products. Kedrion has been producing plasma products for over 40 years and has a market presence in about 100 countries. Our employees are committed to the highest standards and therapies for the patients and clinicians in hematology, immunology, neurology, and transfusion medicine.

Leverages in depth scientific knowledge, clinical expertise, and a professional position within the medical community as a credible peer, to cultivate and integrate substantive relationships with key opinion leaders (KOLs), clinicians, academic institutions, professional organizations, and patient advocacy groups, to provide;

• Education on Safe and effective use of Kedrion products
• Involvement in product life-cycle management initiatives
• Strong advocacy by these external customers for products
• Participation and execution of clinical and product-related research (and the publication of such research)

Manages critical relationships with KOLs and other customers through the compliant exchange of complex scientific information related to areas of research, product development, and commercialization

• Provides the unique service of disseminating current and emerging data in response to specific HCP inquiries, and delivers expert disease-state and product education
• Understand and balance clinical objectives with business priorities creating a positive impact on product utilization, product innovation, and growth.
• Provides internal stakeholders with a scientific foundation and expert medical- scientific resource with which to optimize their performance through the development and execution of disease-state and product educational initiatives
• Partner with cross-functional teams as a conduit for accurate and updated medical- scientific information, medical-scientific intelligence, emerging clinical trends, and medical insights

Responsibilities and Accountability includes:

• Coordinates and conducts professional education, and one-on-one peer exchange, as well as expert product training, to external and internal audiences within the specific therapeutic area, involving highly-complex therapies
• Evaluate new medical and scientific information, assess its impact on overall product strategy, and provide guidance towards appropriate research and clinical use of Kedrion products
• Contributes expertise to the internal review and interpretation of study data, facilitates publication opportunities, and executes strategies.
• Serves as a reliable resource for education and dissemination of pertinent, clear, and balanced medical –scientific information to internal audiences (Marketing Brand Leaders, National Accounts Leaders, Research and Development, and Sales) and external audiences (healthcare professionals, consumers, patient organizations, homecare companies, distributors, service providers pharmacovigilance, medical information, etc).
• Represents the medical and scientific perspective during respective cross-functional brand- planning strategy meetings; contributes to the development and refinement of business initiatives, and aligns KOL interactions with successful implementation and achievement of product strategy.
• Interprets and develops timely, focused responses to internal and external requests for medical–scientific information (including compliant dissemination of unsolicited requests for off-label information) regarding products.
• Identifies, cultivates and integrates substantive relationships with KOLs within the specific therapeutic area to foster the identification of key opportunities for scientific growth and medical evidence for the support and/or expansion of current use of therapies, and execution of joint initiatives such as research, publication planning, and continuing medical education
• Generates and nurtures long-term KOL and other external customer relationships to assure sustainable advocacy for products and the company’s reputation as a science driven and innovative industry partner
• Contributes an expert clinical perspective on the identification and integration of participants in the Speaker’s Bureau and Advisory Boards.
• Maintains comprehensive medical-scientific knowledge of specific therapeutic area, related disease states, and evolving clinical issues related to products, through literature surveillance and participation in, scientific meetings, such as to learn, interpret, and convey new scientific information

Responsibilities

• Professional license must be active and current and in good standing with state licensing board of jurisdiction
• Prior experience in MSL function within the specific therapeutic area strong clinical and research experience within the specific therapeutic area (immunology)
• Degree in science/medicine required (MD, PhD, Pharm D preferred)
• 5+ yrs in the pharmaceutical/biotechnology/plasma industry required

Competencies

The successful candidate must:

• Cultivate collaborative working relationships between Medical Affairs and other disciplines on cross-functional teams
• Be self-directed, highly motivated, independent, and results-oriented
• Possess excellent communication skills; be able to communicate complex scientific information and credibly manage informal and formal scientific conversations and presentations. Proficiency with PowerPoint and MS Office software required.
• Be patient/customer-focused
• Develop scientifically credible and respected effective working relationships with both internal and external customers
• Search, read, interpret and convey pertinent medical literature within the specific therapeutic area and establish self as a valuable resource to internal and external customers
• Maintain a high level of ethical and compliance standards
• Possess the desire and ability to conduct professional and compassionate interactions in serious disease-state physician and patient populations

Travel requirement: Accomplishing one’s objectives takes precedent over precise number of days spent traveling; however, the candidate should expect to fulfill a 50-60% travel requirement, including some weekends

Location: The Medical Science Liaison (MSL) role with Kedrion Biopharma Inc. is a field based role where your home office location can be nationwide as long as you're in close proximity to a major airport as the role requires nationwide domestic travel.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status.