Medical Science Liaison

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Job Description:
Takeda is an industry-leading, global pharmaceutical company with an unwavering dedication to putting patients at the center of everything we do. We live our values of Takeda-ism – Integrity, Fairness, Honesty, and Perseverance – and are united by our mission to strive towards Better Health and a Brighter Future for people worldwide through leading innovation in medicine.

Here, everyone matters and you will be a vital contributor to our inspiring, bold mission. At Takeda, you will make an impact on people's lives – including your own.

Takeda is an equal opportunity employer - At our heart are committed colleagues. We offer interested people numerous opportunities and strongly believe in and promote diversity, equity, and inclusion. As a company, we offer roles based on merit, welcoming candidates of any gender, age, religious belief, race, ethnic origin, or disability. Our team is growing, and for this, we need bright minds with creativity and flexibility – what talent do you have?

We have an exciting opportunity as Medical Science Liaison (MSL), Entyvio.:
The MSL Entyvio is responsible for managing and conducting activities related to medical affairs. This field-based, external customer-facing role is responsible for analyzing, interpreting and disseminating scientific data, acquiring and translating customer insights, and compliantly connecting customers to Takeda in order to advance medical strategy and improve patient outcomes.

About the role:
ROLE OBJECTIVES
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• Understand disease and treatment landscape
• Generate and communicate evidence
• Develop and implement scientific and medical education
• Develop internal capabilities
• Build strategic partnerships

ACCOUNTABILITIES
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• Understand disease and treatment landscape
• Capture and share in-field insights in a compliant manner with relevant business functions to support medical and scientific strategy and business development
• Seek, collect, organize and share scientific insights about key strategic questions, gaps, and projects
• Organise and execute interactions with key stakeholders to uncover their needs
• Participate in the development and implementation of key medical activities (e.g. Advisory Boards)

Generate and communicate evidence
:

• Respond to and facilitate responding to unsolicited requests from HCPs for IISRs in line with company procedure
• Support ongoing and future company sponsored clinical studies according to the collaboration model with Clinical Operations and CROs established by the company

Develop and implement scientific and medical education
:

• Continuously screen, review and analyse scientific literature; generate summaries and critical assessments if appropriate
• Present medical data to key stakeholders in the most efficient way leveraging understanding of their unmet needs, leverage scientific and medical discussions to deepen focus on defining clinical treatment pathways
• Identify and communicate operational understanding of healthcare systems across functions, including changes in the healthcare landscape
• Participate in the development and implementation of key medical activities (e.g. medical education and peer-to-peer training activities)
• Use specific disease and product knowledge to support Takeda's product portfolio and act as a field based medical expert of drug and disease for Takeda
• Ensure consistent communication to external stakeholders of ongoing clinical trial programs when requested

Build strategic partnerships
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• Support medical / scientific credibility through identification and development of sustained and trusted peer to peer relationships with external stakeholders
• Build and maintain partnerships with Key Opinion Leaders and stakeholders in current and future therapeutic areas of interest
• Understand the patient journey and provide insights to support medical and scientific strategy development
• Ensure all activities are in line with any local and/or international code of Practice and Takeda Processes
• Staff medical booths at congresses to reactively provide fair, balanced and unbiased information regarding products

Clinical Development:

• Develop study outline and protocol for local post-authorization (phase 4) studies sponsored by Takeda; coordinate/oversee study conduct, data analysis and disclosure, reporting/publication
• Liaise with CROs and other vendors for Takeda sponsored global studies as appropriate
• Collaborate with Global Development Operations functions (e.g. LOC Support), and support clinical study plans and processes, including pipeline products and phases 1-4.

SKILLS and COMPETENCIES
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• Compliance insights Profound understanding of compliance and medical Ethics, ability to navigate complex situations balancing SOPs, regulations, our values, and business interests
• Engage others – communicate with impact Advanced communication skills to build and shape internal and external relationships (such as KOLs.) during interactions
• Collaboration Establishes productive relationships and partners with others across the organization to ensure common understanding of objectives and achieve shared goals
• Drive for Results Holds self and others accountable for delivering on commitments that align with our short- and long-term goals, never forgetting the end result is to help patients through innovation in medicine
• Business acumen establishes a holistic understanding of the 'big picture' (i.e. the organization, marketplace, and industry) to effectively bridge the scientific and the commercial, benefiting the patient and fostering business opportunities
• Customer centricity Ability to understand the customers' needs, leading complex collaborations successfully and creating genuine win-win solutions
• Scientific Expertise Applying medical knowledge to add value to and uphold the scientific integrity of our products. Develops internal capabilities.
• Interaction Excellence Engages in a partnership through a structured and collaborative approach
• DD&T Develop and enhance innovative IA capabilities to drive scientific excellence

Experience and Education:

• Nursing degree, PharmD, DVM, MD or PhD in biomedical sciences or degree in biological sciences
• MSL experience preferred
• Experience of working in a cross-functional environment
• Fluency in English

Locations:
Petach Tikva, Israel

Worker Type:
Employee

Worker Sub-Type:
Regular

Time Type:
Full time