Medical Science Liaison - Medical Affairs

Title:

Medical Science Liaison

Company:

Ipsen Korea

About Ipsen:

Ipsen is a mid-sized global biopharmaceutical company with a focus on transformative medicines in three therapeutic areas: Oncology, Rare Disease and Neuroscience. Supported by nearly 100 years of development experience, with global hubs in the U.S., France and the U.K, we tackle areas of high unmet medical need through research and innovation.

 Our passionate teams in more than 40 countries are focused on what matters and endeavor every day to bring medicines to patients in 88 countries. We build a workplace that champions human-centric leadership and fosters a culture of collaboration, excellence and impact. At Ipsen, every individual is empowered to be their true selves, grow and thrive alongside the company’s success. Join us on our journey towards sustainable growth, creating real impact on patients and society!

For more information, visit us at https://www.ipsen.com/ and follow our latest news on LinkedIn and Instagram.

Job Description:

* Job Title : Medical Scientific Liaison(MSL)

* Division : Medical Affairs

* Location : Seoul, South Korea

Summary

As part of the Medical Affairs department, the MSL is a field-based scientific expert to external and internal stakeholders delivering non-promotional information exchange, supporting data and insight generation to provide patient-centric solutions. The MSL must maintain up-to-date knowledge of relevant scientific information.The MSL works in coordination with the rest of the medical team to meet the Medical Department objectives.The MSL is expected to comply with all Ipsen SOPs, Policies, Directives and relevant National guidelines.

Main Responsibilities

Establish and foster professional collaborations with the Healthcare community

• Map the scientific expertise: identify, complete and update Thought Leaders (TL) database in the disease area in accordance with the Global MSL Directive and the TL Tiering Process.
• Conduct fair and balanced scientific exchanges with TL to explore mutual clinical and scientific interests, insights generation, scientific/educational meetings (congresses, symposia, etc.), potential research collaborations.
• Identify opportunities for collaboration with TL when aligned with Ipsen strategy.
• Develop and enhance scientific and educational collaborations with Healthcare Professionals (HCP) within the Healthcare community and act as a medical contact for TL and external medical experts.
• Reactively respond to unsolicited and documented queries from HCP.
• Generate a TL engagement and territory plan in alignment with the local medical strategic plan.
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Develop and/or implement unbiased and non‐promotional scientific exchange meetings and educational activities

• Provide scientific/educational presentations to HCP:
• Reactively: on Ipsen products (on‐label and off‐label indications), on compounds in  Development.
• Proactively: on disease area management (excluding single‐product presentation).
• Organise or support scientific exchange meetings.
• Contribute to/implement medical education programs in the field.
• Contribute to the scientific publication program, if required.
• Support the organisation of satellite symposia in local congresses
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Generate and share insight from HCP to nurture Ipsen’s strategy

• Collect, analyse, and report actionable insights from HCPs related to disease state, unmet medical needs, local guidelines, therapeutic trends, competitive activities, compounds in development and the broader healthcare environment.
• organise or support local Advisory Boards (in‐country).
• Attend and report insights from major National and Regional medical congresses.
• Engage and collaborate on specific initiatives with patient organisations in accordance with the Global Guidance on Interactions with Patient Organisations and individual patients.
• Contribute to the dissemination of the information within the Company where appropriate.
• Report spontaneous adverse events and product‐related quality complaints in accordance with global and local SOPs.
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Support to clinical development & ISS (data generation)

• Coordinate and facilitate unsolicited Investigator‐Sponsored Study (ISS) requests from submission until completion, presentation, and publication, in alignment with Medical Affairs’ objectives.
• Support the R&D projects and Company Sponsored Studies (CSS) operations (investigators site identification and evaluation, feasibility studies, recruitment, investigator meetings, external expert identification, study management, investigators query) when appropriate.
• Support the implementation and follow‐up of post-marketing clinical activities such as registry/database projects, epidemiological surveys, post‐authorisation studies (phase IV) at the site level.
• Identify opportunities to generate real‐world‐evidence data.

Ensure internal cross‐functional collaborations as a scientific partner

• With the local office‐based Medical Affairs department:
  • Contribute to the development of the Local Annual Medical Plan (LAMP).
  • Develop standard responses if required (in coordination with Medical Information).
•  With the commercial staff (Marketing or Sales) to:
  • Provide scientific expertise and training to commercial staff as required.
  • Review and approve promotional materials in accordance with the local SOPs.
  • Contribute to the review and approval of non‐promotional materials in accordance with the local SOPs.
  • Participate the local cross-functional team meetings to bring additional scientific perspectives.
  • Attend and contribute to regional account planning/training sessions.
  • Ensure speakers briefing for promotional/ non-promotional meetings.
  • Contribute to the cross-functional account plans.
  • Provide medical trainings.
•  With Regulatory department & Market Access department to:
  • Respond to requests to support hospital formulary submissions and upon request to present the data on Ipsen products.
  • Respond to scientific inquiries to deliver scientific presentations on the disease area and on the product.

Competencies

Communicates Effectively

• Asks open questions and digs deeper; shows care and respect for different perspectives (both verbally and non‑verbally) and able to relate to other points of view
•  Communicates transparently, "tells it how it is" while keeping the communication respectful
•  Builds clear and crisp messages with structure and focus, uses visual communication and storytelling to make the message easy to digest and connect with the outcomes
• Demonstrates gravitas

Influences

• Listens and observes actively (paraphrases, summarizes, uses body language) and reflects on what was said, builds on what others are saying
• Gets insights on objectives of other stakeholders and is able to identify common interests
•  Actively seeks "win‑win" partnerships/solutions
• Able to embark internal and/or external stakeholders without hierarchical relationships

Customer (& Patient) Focus

• Displays and echoes the "patients' voice" through all touchpoint
•  Understands and integrates the patient ecosystem view
•  Integrates the patient voice into everything we do
•  Ensures we set and shape our "sight" on what matters for patients and society

Interpersonal Savvy

• Adapts communication style and messages to the audience and connects the messages to broader business objectives/purpose
• Shows up with authenticity, humility and vulnerability
• Demonstrates inclusive behaviors

Excellence in Execution

• Sets clear goals, priorities, timelines, and roles to drive effective execution
• Plans and aligns steps and resources efficiently while staying focused on KPIs
• Ensures strong ownership and follow‑through to deliver results
•  Shares and applies best practices to enhance execution quality
  

Knowledge & Experience

Knowledge/Expereince(preferred)

• Medical/paramedical Practice or Research career (hospital and/or hospital related, university research, pharmaceutical industry research or medical affairs)

• minimum 2 years of experience as an MSL in the pharmaceutical industry, with a proven track record in medical affairs.

• Experience in delivering scientific presentations and development of relationships with Thought Leaders is strongly preferred.

• Knowledge in data analysis and statistics for purpose of understanding clinical study results.

• Current working knowledge of legal, regulatory, and compliance regulations and guidelines relevant to industry interactions with health-care professionals.

• Computer literacy

Education/Certifications(preferred)

• Biomedical, Scientific University education.

Language(preferred)

• Expert communicator in their local language and excellent knowledge of written and spoken scientific English.
  
  

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