ViiV Healthcare Medical Science Liaison - Los Angeles, CA

Overview

Region:
Los Angeles, CA

ViiV Healthcare is a global specialty HIV company focused on researching and delivering new medicines for people living with, and at risk of, HIV. We are committed to education on prevention and treatment for HIV, and to delivering breakthroughs in prevention, treatments, care solutions, and communities. We aim to push through challenges until HIV/AIDS is eradicated and offer a broad portfolio of HIV medicines to meet diverse needs.

We are a fast-paced, diverse, inclusive, competitive, and caring workplace. ViiV Healthcare is a place to belong and to bring your best, with a team focused on making an impact.

The Medical Science Liaison (MSL) role is a field-based, customer-facing, non-promotional medical and scientific position within the Los Angeles, CA area. The MSL’s objective is to advance clinical practice in the assigned territory to improve patient outcomes. The MSL serves as a scientific expert in HIV treatment and prevention, understands territory and market influences, engages scientifically with Healthcare Providers (HCPs) and medical experts, manages and develops the territory, and executes activities aligned with the medical strategic plan.

The MSL informs and shapes medical strategy by collecting impactful insights to drive development and commercialization of our products.

This role provides the opportunity to lead key activities to progress your career. Responsibilities include the following:

• Scientific Expertise: Build strong scientific acumen and serve as a primary point of contact for medical and scientific inquiries in HIV treatment and prevention for the territory. Provide advanced scientific and clinical knowledge to internal and external stakeholders.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Identify, develop, and maintain relationships with external experts, researchers, and healthcare professionals. Maintain a strategic plan to support external experts and facilitate scientific discussions and collaborations aligned with objectives. Engage in data discussions, clinical trial activities, patient journey discussions, market dynamics, areas of unmet medical need, pipeline discussions, education on disease state and product, adverse events reporting, and medical insights collection across product life cycles.
• Clinical Insights: Gather and relay field insights to inform product development, clinical trial design, and market strategies. Provide feedback on ViiV products and services.
• Education and Training: Develop and deliver scientific presentations and training sessions for healthcare professionals and internal teams. Support creation of educational materials and provide scientific training to colleagues.
• Compliance and Documentation: Ensure activities comply with regulatory guidelines and company policies. Maintain accurate records of interactions and outcomes.
• Leadership and Mentorship: Model ViiV’s culture and values. Mentor and coach new or less experienced MSLs and lead scientific or strategic projects to elevate team acumen.
• Safety Communication: Disseminate important safety information to healthcare professionals as directed by Medical Affairs or R&D teams.
• Agility and Adaptability: Interface with a wide range of stakeholders, including external experts, healthcare professionals, investigators, professional societies, advocacy groups, and formulary decision-makers.
• Clinical Development Support: Assist in clinical development activities, including Investigator Sponsored Studies. Collaborate with Clinical Teams to improve site performance and provide insights into research interests.

• National Meetings: Attend national and regional scientific/medical meetings to gain the medical voice of the customer on recent data relevant to ViiV.
• Matrix
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Conduct business with a One-ViiV mindset, engaging across matrix stakeholders.
• Administration: Complete responsibilities and trainings (e.g., CRM, email, expense reports, and core customer profiling) timely, ensuring up-to-date information in the CRM.

• Advanced degree (MD or DO or Pharm
  
  D or PhD or APP)
• 3+ years of clinical experience in HIV or Infectious…