Entity: CSL Behring
Job Category: Medical Affairs
Job Family: Medical Science Liaison
Job Type: Full Time
Location: Mechelen, Antwerp, Belgium
Employer Reference: R-279305
We are seeking a Medical Scientist to join our Cardiorenal Benelux Medical Affairs team, with a strong focus on rare disease nephrology. This role plays a critical part in shaping and executing medical strategy, ensuring a patient-centric and science-driven approach across the portfolio. The position can be based in Breda (Netherlands) or Mechelen (Belgium) and reports directly to the Head of Medical Affairs Benelux.
Position Purpose:
Under general direction, be responsible for the development and implementation of the Medical Affairs strategy and tactics in the designated therapy area.
Provides medical expertise and input to the Business team of the designated therapeutic area to ensure targeted development of new products and optimal scientific positioning of existing products ensuring a comprehensive patient focus.
Responsible for developing long-term relationships with External Experts (aka KOL) and Patients 0rganisations, and holder of KOL engagement plan.
Identifies unmet medical needs and reinforces the patient focus of all medical activities.
Main Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
1. Strategy
Under general direction, provide input from medical affairs perspective and contribute to strategic product plans for the country.
Be a part of the Business Team to develop strategic medical, scientific and relationship management plans that align with business objectives
Medical input into key cross-functional groups
Responsible for medical activities required for this process.
2. Interaction with Medical and Scientific Community
Builds relationships and demonstrates the clinical outcome and benefits of CSL products to External Experts.
Provide a high-quality single point of contact for scientific interaction between External Experts / HCP’s and CSL.
Respond to specific local requests for scientific and medical information in a comprehensive, timely and customer focused manner.
Actively drives Scientific Advisory Board meetings to ensure knowledge transfer, foster External Expert relationships, ensure scientific understanding, and build appropriate advocacy.
Actively participate in Scientific and Medical symposia. Assisting with development of CSL sponsored programs.
Facilitate consideration of proposals for collaborative/ investigator-initiated studies.
Facilitate site feasibility assessments
3. External Expert Development
Under general direction, ensure development plans are initiated and actively managed for identified EE’s.
Facilitate speaker development and involvement locally and internationally.
Ensure appropriate EE development through participation in clinical trials.
Ensure communications are tracked in appropriate systems to ensure CSL is compliant with good governance and transparency regulations.
4. Therapy Area Expertise
Develop and maintain extensive knowledge of the designated therapeutic area(s), pipeline, and the competitive landscape.
Be considered an expert by internal & external customers.
Disseminate knowledge and share information as appropriate (within compliance regulations), including through internal and external presentations.
Provide training and education of relevant stakeholders.
Be a part of the review process for materials (as required).
Provide input into the reimbursement dossier.
Provision of information to reimbursement authorities and other relevant external government/regulatory bodies as and when requested to high professional standard.
5. Ensuring actions comply with:
CSL’s Code of Responsible Business Practice
CSL’s Global Quality Policy (W000037E)
Pay full attention and act along local quality system processes and procedures
Local and global medical affairs processes and procedures
National Industry association Deontology Code
Job Qualifications and Experience Requirements:
Fluent in Dutch
Prior Pharmaceutical or Biotech industry experience (medical, clinical or specialty products expertise) of at least 3 years.
Ability to apply and leverage scientific and medical knowledge is essential
Experience in therapy area is desirable
Strong negotiation, influencing and leadership skills
Excellent presentation, interpersonal and communication skills
Demonstrated ability to manage relationships with external experts
Demonstrated business planning ability and strong organisational skills
Demonstrated innovative thinking
Demonstrated working knowledge of regulations governing information provision/interactions with customers within the pharmaceutical industry. Strong medical governance capabilities.
Strong strategic thinking capabilities
Ability to work independently & be self-motivating
The role will require some offsite attendance at meetings, conferences, exhibitions, which includes international travel. This position description provides a summary of key features of the role. It may be varied as necessary by the Company from time to time.
CSL Behring is a global biotherapeutics leader driven by our promise to save lives. Focused on serving patients' needs by using the latest technologies, we discover, develop and deliver innovative therapies for people living with conditions in the immunology, hematology, cardiovascular and metabolic, respiratory, and transplant therapeutic areas. We use three strategic scientific platforms of plasma fractionation, recombinant protein technology, and cell and gene therapy to support continued innovation and continually refine ways in which products can address unmet medical needs and help patients lead full lives.
CSL Behring operates one of the world's largest plasma collection networks, CSL Plasma. Our parent company, CSL, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, employs 32,000 people, and delivers its lifesaving therapies to people in more than 100 countries.
To learn more about CSL, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor visit https://www.csl.com/ and CSL Plasma at https://www.cslplasma.com/.
At CSL, Inclusion and Belonging is at the core of our mission and who we are. It fuels our innovation day in and day out. By celebrating our differences and creating a culture of curiosity and empathy, we are able to better understand and connect with our patients and donors, foster strong relationships with our stakeholders, and sustain a diverse workforce that will move our company and industry into the future.
To learn more about inclusion and belonging visit https://www.csl.com/careers/inclusion-and-belonging
CSL is an Equal Opportunity Employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please visit https://www.csl.com/accessibility-statement.
