Job Description

Job Title: Medical Science Liaison - South Central/LATAM

Job Location: United States

Job Location Type: Remote

Job Contract Type: Full-time

Job Seniority Level: Mid-Senior level

About Aerogen:

​Headquartered in the vibrant city of Galway, Ireland, with offices around the world, Aerogen is proud to be the world leader in acute care aerosol drug delivery. Recognised through multiple MedTech awards and eight-time winner of the Zenith award for Respiratory Care Excellence in North America, collectively our employees make a difference to patients’ lives every day, having already reached 20 million patients in over 80 countries.

Our talented and skilled team collaborate to innovate, challenge and test not only in relation to our products but every facet of how we work. We lead the way, finding innovative solutions to even the most complex problems, all in the name of delivering better patient care.

Our business is growing rapidly across the globe and as we grow, our core culture of “We Care” universally connects us. We believe that your ambition and integrity fuels ours and we are committed to supporting our employees to reach their full potential through tangible investment in their careers. Join us as we continue to #discoverbetter.

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What is the role?

This is a critical field-based role for Aerogen acting as the non-promotional scientific and medical lead for Aerogen with key external stakeholders including HCPs/payors/regulators, ensuring the effective and appropriate utilization of our existing and new product portfolio. This role is important for providing insight and training support for internal stakeholders. Given Aerogen’s unique technology and strong clinical differentiation the MSL plays a particularly important role in Aerogen’s development as it moves beyond the device engineering, technical performance and equipment integration activity to one which is increasingly being recognized as having the potential to be standard of care across the critical care continuum from ICU through to homecare and long-term ventilation. The MSL is expected to be able to act effectively and operate remotely including taking initiative and drive execution without daily supervision.

What are the key responsibilities?

Medical Affairs Strategy Development Execution:

• Working with the global Medical Affairs team and aligning with other functional stakeholders, the MSL is responsible to develop an annual medical territory / regional strategic and operational plan (MSOP) and a quarterly breakdown of strategy and activities including KPIs and allocation of time and budget investment.
• Reflect the integration and leverage of the global medical affairs strategy (top down) with the local bottom-up country/region specific local strategy execution plan and implementation.

KOL engagement relationship management:

• Develop and maintain meaningful professional relationships with KOL HCPs including representatives of Professional Specialty Society Groups by supporting request for information/materials and evidence and logistic support, including Advisory Board management, enabling engagement and support for:
• selective and strategically relevant new evidence/data generation.
• peer to peer meeting support/education.
• involvement in and development of relevant regional, guidelines, consensus and local protocols.

Scientific Exchange:

• Developing and executing an effective medical and science communication cascade including the development of panels of HCP speakers who are credible and able to lead evidence-based discussions.
• Development of content and materials for high-interest and interactive science exchange including where needed to support speaker training and presentation skills development.
• Lead medical science exchange programmes including education and training of HCPs at workshops/standalone/smaller group and one to one meetings.
• Act as the local medical representative handling requests for information and queries relating to off label usage of Aerogen’s products
• Act as the Aerogen scientific and medical representative in Payor/Managed care discussions.
• Support relevant CME accreditation for Aerogen education and inclusion into undergraduate and postgraduate training programmes.

Supporting Evidence Generation and Science Collaboration:

• Collaborate with selected regional and national KOLs in aligning strategically valued evidence generation plan develop proposals for regional/national research roadmap including appropriate research methodologies including potential RCT/RWE/ IIT/ Surveys.
• Based on regional/national proposals engage global team and align regional/national evidence research plan with global programme and given agreement and priority progress development of plan including protocol development with KOL HCP research teams.
• Support local research logistics including funding approval, ethical approval documentation and product trial materials provision.
• Ensure effective local study support as appropriate including core compliance with regulatory guidelines.
• Collaborate to support effective timely study reporting followed by drafting of abstracts and manuscripts to encourage the rapid publication of study outcomes in peer-reviewed literature and onward inclusion in wider evidence dissemination.

Effective Training, Insights and Competitive Intelligence:

• Ensure effective training and support for internal teams on latest medical science evidence and management of customer queries.
• Routinely collect and provide medical insights and feedback gathered from the scientific exchange and communicate relevant information to internal stakeholders.
• Attend relevant National, Regional and Local conferences supporting medical/science activities at conferences along with KOL / HCP engagement and providing high quality feedback on key trends, new evidence and competitive insights.

Innovation:

• In line with Aerogen’s Values of Ambition and Innovation proactively seek to look for new ways to increase the effectiveness and impact of MSL customer engagement activities including, but not only, identifying and act as local leadership of local project initiatives e.g. professional society development / workshop simulations.

Collaboration:

• Sharing best practices across colleagues and adopting new ways of working shown to be effective when shared by others.
• Effective management reporting and collaboration across Medical Affairs Team and other functions with regular reporting of activity using Pulse tools aligned to key KPIs along with and current/planned allocation of time and priorities in and monthly quarterly activity plans.

Compliance:

• Complete all required training, documentation, expense reporting, and other administrative responsibilities and ensuring appropriate compliance in line with internal/external policies.
• Ensure compliance with all Aerogen internal policies and external regulatory compliance requirements.
• Maintaining scientific expertise and awareness of relevant disease area, product/device development, new evidence, consensus and guideline research and literature and regulatory development.
• Review, as appropriate where there is locally developed promotional material and ensure relevance and regulatory suitability for usage by Aerogen stakeholders.

What education and experience are required?

• Minimum of MSc however advanced scientific training and academic credentials generally consisting of PhD, MD, Pharm D preferred.
• Seniors will typically have 2-4 years of experience as an MSL, preferably in the respiratory field.
• Strong knowledge of respiratory diseases, treatments, and the medical device industry.

What key skills will make you great at the role?

• Excellent presentation skills.
• Spanish and English is required.
• Meticulous attention to detail in the creation and examination of clinical and scientific documentation.
• Ability to be conversant with analytical models and correlate experimental to theoretical results.
• Highly effective interpersonal skills and the ability to continually demonstrate poise, tact, and diplomacy.
• Good computer skills. Experienced with Microsoft Office applications for generating office documents, presentations, spreadsheets, etc.
• Ability to work independently and cross-functionally within the context of multidisciplinary external and internal teams.

Advantageous:

• Clinical experience in situations where direct/or indirect decision-making authority for patient care was demonstrated (e.g. direct patient care, treatment protocol development, etc.) or medical liaison experience.
• Assisted in writing, submission, and subsequent publication of peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts.
• Scientific publication(s) in internationally recognized peer-reviewed journals.
• Presentations at national and international conferences.
• Experience in designing and monitoring investigator-initiated clinical trials.
• Conversant with Good Clinical Practice.

What is it like to work at Aerogen?

Our purpose is to transform patient lives and our ethos is to #discoverbetter. This also translates to how we look after our people. We want talented, passionate and engaged people to join Aerogen and build your career with us. We understand that your life evolves through different stages, and we are here to support our global team with a range of financial and non-financial rewards and benefits. There’s something for everyone! Here is an idea of what we offer:

• Excellent medical care.
• Bonus Pension.
• ‘Aerogen Connect’ – our employee led programme which supports our global teams to unite and have fun.
• We pledge 1% of profits and time to charities and organisations.

Check out our careers website to discover more about Life at Aerogen.

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