Senior Medical Science Liaison, Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain peer-to-peer collaborations and relationships with key stakeholders in the medical and scientific communities.
• Develop an understanding of the regional landscape including specialties involved in care of patients.
• Generate and execute tactical regional plans to provide needs-based, value-added support of the medical and scientific community in line with company goals.
• Support clinical development initiatives including investigator-initiated research (IIR) and LivaNova-sponsored clinical studies and registries (e.g., site identification, trial recruitment, and presentation of final approved data).
• Collaborate with key internal and external stakeholders on Medical Affairs-led initiatives including publications, advisory boards, medical education (e.g., CME) opportunities, training, and speaker development.
• Identify, profile, prioritize and map thought leaders in line with strategic initiatives and goals.
• Support external stakeholders with up-to-date medical information, robust disease expertise, and product information, including providing fair and balanced responses to requests for scientific information.
• Communicate clinical insights on new data to inform clinical and market development strategy for the therapeutic area.
• Serve as scientific peer-to-peer resource to external disease experts and internal stakeholders.
• Train internal stakeholders on key scientific and medical topics in the relevant therapeutic area.
• Maintain effective and appropriate communication among internal stakeholders while maintaining full compliance with relevant requirements.
• Maintain accurate reporting and documentation of MSL action plans and key performance metrics.

Requirements

• Advanced (doctorate) degree required, e.g., M.D., Ph.D. (in biology, chemistry or medical related discipline), PharmD
• Experience (≥4 years) in clinical affairs, medical affairs and/or clinical strategy in the medical device industry
• Clinical or research experience in target Therapeutic Area(s) highly desirable (surgery, sleep medicine)
• Prior medical device product launch experience strongly preferred
• Operating room experience strongly preferred
• Demonstrated ability to establish networks and active relationships with Key Opinion Leaders
• Understanding and demonstrated ability to work compliantly in a field-based role, within the medical affairs organization, in collaboration with the commercial organization
• Demonstrated ability to embrace responsibilities and to achieve goals
• Strong initiative and desire to work as part of a cross‐functional team
• Excellent time management
• Demonstrated ability to work independently
• Pro‐active team player, flexible, and ability to work in ambiguous situations.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in clinical and medical affairs with a focus on developing peer-to-peer collaborations and executing strategic regional plans. Possesses strong knowledge of the medical device industry and the ability to communicate clinical insights effectively.