MSL Alzheimer's Disease Gulf

About this role

The Medical Science Liaison (MSL) Alzheimers Disease (AD)  plays a critical role in our mission by serving as a scientific expert and trusted partner to the medical community. This fieldbased customerfacing role focuses on building and nurturing relationships with Key Medical Experts (KMEs) Healthcare Professionals (HCPs) and Health Care Organizations (HCOs) to advance understanding of Alzheimers disease and Biogens innovative therapies.

With approximately 5070% travel the MSL AD is responsible for providing timely accurate and balanced scientific information supporting educational initiatives and engaging in meaningful knowledge exchange. The MSL AD will facilitate scientific dialogue through advisory boards educational forums and ecosystem readiness efforts from diagnostic access to upskilling stakeholders on Alzheimers disease and Biogens clinical data.

By establishing longterm strategic relationships with specialists academic institutions and medical societies the MSL AD will ensure the medical community is wellinformed and prepared to deliver impactful care in the evolving AD landscape. His/her insights will also serve as a vital bridge to internal teams informing strategy and enhancing our collective understanding of the field.

What Youll Do

• Key Medical Expert (KME) and Healthcare Practitioner (HCP) Engagement:
• Identify KMEs/HCPs in AD and work in collaboration with respective commercial counterparts in engaging KOLs from a medical perspective
• Develop maintain and implement KME/HCP engagement plans to build and maintain strong scientific relationships such that Biogen is recognised as an industry partner of choice
• Plan KME/HCP visits and utilise the CRM database to record KME/HCP interactions 
• Provide current accurate and balanced scientific education to KMEs/HCPs and facilitate data discussions in relevant therapeutic areas
• Provide scientific presentations to individual physicians or groups of physicians e.g. scientific seminars round table meetings journal clubs etc.
• Source and brief international and local speakers for national and regional meetings  according to internal processes
• Work with various healthcare system to ensure readiness of institutes to diagnose and manage Alzheimers Disease
• Collaborate with healthcare systems and various institutes to ensure complete awareness of Alzheimers disease and work closely with said institutes to establish understanding of referral of early alzheimers disease patients.
• Collaborate with third parties to ensure diagnostics are fully available for health care professionals to allow for diagnosis and management of Alzheimers disease patients within biogens internal processes and accepted compliance guidelines.
• Reactively explore & facilitate cliniciandriven ideas for InvestigatorInitiated Trials (IITs) and Sponsored Research Agreements (SRAs)
• Act as a liaison between investigators and Biogen ensuring regular communication regarding the progress of IIT & SRA proposals.

Internal Collaboration:

• Work with relevant commercial counterparts to address specific regional needs from a medical perspective in alignment with both medical and commercial brand plans
• Record all healthcare professional (HCP) interactions and track MSL activity in the Veeva CRM database
• Participate in respective integrated brand team meetings to provide infield medical updates trends insights and competitor intelligence
• Contribute to infield medical training of Area Business Managers (ABMs) and be available as a medical resource for the Sales team to support educational events and presentations
• Support the Medical Manager AD with the coordination of advisory board meetings/steering committees including speaker briefings
• Collaborate with relevant medical and commercial team/s to develop strategy and execute tactics on the communication of complex scientific information to relevant KMEs/HCPs
• Collaborate with Global Clinical Operations (GCO) and the Medical Manager AD with respect to clinical trial execution eg: Site identification Site Initiation visits etc.
• Collaborate with Medical Manager AD & the Medical Head  to drive approval and setup of appropriate IITs/SRAs
• Regularly (at least monthly) liaise with other medical and commercial teams to ensure consistency and alignment in strategy/tactics
• Adhere to the agreed BiogenEisai alliance reporting and review processes
• Regularly update site readiness tools to ensure an updated and full picture of ready sites across the gulf countries.

Scientific Data Knowledge and Communication:

• Collaborate with the Medical Manager AD to generate high quality approved medical and scientific presentations aligned to medical strategy
• Keep abreast of relevant medical literature. Review Biogen literature alerts and work with Product Managers and other matrix functions responsible for education of ABMs on relevant literature alerts
• Discuss analyze and educate on appropriate medical/scientific publications and clinical study findings in collaboration with Medical Manager AD 
• On request attend national and international conferences and provide a medical summary of these conferences to internal stakeholders
• Provide scientific presentations to individual physicians or groups of physicians e.g. scientific seminars round table meetings and journal clubs etc.

Compliance:

• Ensure speaker briefings contracts and slide review processes adhere to all internal SOPs and external rules where appropriate
• Maintain compliance within Biogen and local external frameworks and codes of conduct
• Maintain 100% training compliance on all allocated courses and internal SOPs.

Qualifications :

Required Skills

• University degree in Science Pharmacy or Medicine
• Excellent communication/coordination/
• interpersonal skills
• Minimum 23 years of relevant experience in the Pharma industry (Medical Affairs) or clinical/scientific setting

Preferred Skills

• International experience (local/regional) especially in desired 
• Preferred experience in the field of neurology immunology
• Preferred understanding of drug development through clinical research
• Preferred knowledge and understanding of local health care systems and regulations 

Additional Information :

Why Biogen

We are a global team with a commitment to excellence and a pioneering spirit. As a midsized biotechnology company we provide the stability and resources of a wellestablished business while fostering an environment where individual contributions make a significant impact. Our team encompasses some of the most talented and passionate achievers who have unparalleled opportunities for learning growth and expanding their skills. Above all we work together to deliver lifechanging medicines with every role playing a vital part in our mission. Caring Deeply. Achieving Excellence. Changing Lives.

At Biogen we are committed to building on our culture of inclusion and belonging that reflects the communities where we operate and the patients we serve. We know that diverse backgrounds cultures and perspectives make us a stronger and more innovative company and we are focused on building teams where every employee feels empowered and inspired. Read on to learn more about our DE&I efforts.