Senior Medical Science Liaison, Obstructive Sleep Apnea - Northeast

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The Senior Medical Science Liaison (MSL) for Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) establishes and maintains peer-to-peer relationships with health care providers, medical and scientific experts, and key opinion leaders (KOLs), and provides insights from these external stakeholders to internal colleagues for product and market development and life cycle management. Will be responsible for preparing for relevant aspects of product launch and seamlessly executing plans during and after initial product launch.

For this role, you must reside within Northeastern geography of the United States.

General 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 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.

Key performance indicators/ Measures of success

• Develops and maintains action plans and key performance indicators that facilitate and measure progress toward achieving regional, functional, and corporate goals

• Standardization and continuous improvement of medical affairs strategy and procedures across Therapeutic Area(s)

• Zero discordance of medical affairs activities with strategic plan objectives

Location

• Office is home based. For this role, you must reside within Northeastern geography of the United States.

Travel

• Up to 75% within region. Required travel to medical meetings, team meetings, and other group meetings (will require some weekends)

Education

• Advanced (doctorate) degree required, e.g., M.D., Ph.D. (in biology, chemistry or medical related discipline), PharmD

Minimum Qualifications

• 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

Pay Transparency: A reasonable estimate of the annual base salary for this position is $180,000 - $200,000 + discretionary annual bonus. Pay ranges may vary by location.

Employee benefits include:

• Health benefits – Medical, Dental, Vision

• Personal and Vacation Time

• Retirement & Savings Plan (401K)

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Training & Education Assistance

• Bonus Referral Program

• Service Awards

• Employee Recognition Program

• Flexible Work Schedules

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