Senior Medical Science Liaison - Northeast

Role Summary

Senior Medical Science Liaison for the Northeast region. This field-based role builds and sustains ongoing professional relationships with national/regional healthcare practitioners and key opinion leaders, and facilitates education regarding current and upcoming Travere therapies. The role ensures access to current medical and scientific information for stakeholders across HCPs, managed markets, LTC, and payers, aligned with Medical Affairs. Location is remote in selected Northeast states;

travel up to 50% is required; candidate must reside in the territory or adjacent area.

• Demonstrate deep scientific expertise about assigned molecules/products and overall therapeutic areas to exchange relevant information and insights with top tier thought leaders and healthcare decision makers within specific regions.
• Identify and develop relationships with national and regional medical and scientific thought leaders, patient advocacy groups and centers of excellence consistent with Company strategy and objectives.
• Actively contribute to pre-launch/launch activities for sparsentan in FSGS and IgA Nephropathy.
• Foster mutually productive partnerships with KOLs in the areas of medical education and clinical/scientific research and the ability to build, cultivate, and leverage relationships with key external scientific and medical customers and organizations in their regions to ensure strong understanding of evolving healthcare trends across the relevant therapeutic area landscape.
• Engage in continuous learning within the therapeutic area represented and actively attend and participate in upskilling programs related to assigned molecules, products, disease states and relevant business topics.
• Build and cultivate important working relationships across internal field partners to ensure an enterprise approach when working with internal and external customers.
• Serve as scientific expert at key medical and scientific conferences, advisory boards, round tables, clinical investigator meetings, and internal meetings.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of medical education strategies and initiatives.
• Contribute to publication planning, development of medical education materials and internal training.
• Maintain cross-functional collaboration with internal teams including Clinical Operations, Clinical Development, Medical Information, Medical Communications and Commercial/Field Sales.
• Assist with sponsored research (site identification, recruitment, etc.) and investigator-initiated research (conduit, protocol champion, status updates, etc.).
• Deliver medical presentations to diverse audiences effectively, including physicians, pharmacists and nurses with the ability to summarize and communicate complex information in an effective manner.
• Assist internal stakeholders as the scientific/medical expert during managed market/payer engagement to ensure that payers and insurance companies understand the value proposition, clinical differentiators, safety and efficacy of sparsentan by presenting relevant formulary information, pharmacoeconomic and clinical data.
• Assist Patient Advocacy in creating and/or delivering scientific/medical information to ensure the patient population and Patient Advocacy Groups understand the mechanism of disease for IgA Nephropathy and FSGS.
• Adhere to corporate compliance in all activities, including those related to clinical trials, scientific interactions with internal and external groups, and responses to unsolicited requests for medical/scientific information.

• Preferred:
  Advanced degree strongly preferred (i.e. Pharm D, MD/DO, PhD, PA or NP) in a relevant scientific discipline. Equivalent combination of education and applicable job experience may be considered.
• Required:
  
  Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in biopharmaceutical industry as a Medical Science Liaison; consideration will be made with comparable experience in research and/or pharmaceutical experience.
• Preferred:
  Nephrology experience and established KOL contacts in nephrology/renal pathologists and rare disease is a plus, other relevant therapeutic disciplines may be considered.
• Preferred:
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