Requirements: English
Company: WhatJobs
Region: Brussels , Brussels
Site Name: Belgium-Bruxelles
Posted Date: May 5 2025
Job Purpose:
Through in-field scientific engagement with healthcare providers (HCPs) and external experts (EEs), as Medical Science Liaison (MSL) you foster a more educated healthcare environment by:
Communicating & engaging in a peer-to-peer discussion with HCPs & EEs on treatment guidelines and practices and answering challenging questions from the healthcare professionals;
Communicating on deep knowledge of GSK data in the context of overall patient care to ensure evidence-based understanding of the science behind GSK medicines and vaccines;
Gathering valuable insights on GSK products and services, and on medical and scientific information to better understand patient needs and evidence gaps.
Key Responsibilities:
- Engage in one-to-one scientific dialogue with external experts around GSKs medicines, enabling them to confidently discuss our portfolio with patients and the wider medical community and ensuring they are knowledgeable in identifying the right patient for the most appropriate medicines.
- Act as an expert speaker at scientific events to disseminate information to larger groups of healthcare providers while stimulating clinical dialogue to gain different views and perspectives.
- Respond to unsolicited requests for Medical Information from healthcare providers in a fair, factual, balanced, and scientifically rigorous manner via the appropriate and preferred channel.
- Act as the interface between the professional healthcare community and the internal GSK medical team and its affiliates to bring in value-added insights that inform GSK Medical, Commercial, and Research & Development activities.
- Foster a collaborative working relationship with Commercial colleagues.
- Partner with matrix colleagues (e.g. sales, marketing, market access, etc.) to ensure strategies and business plans are both patient and business focused and adding value to the external expert.
- Disseminate important safety information to healthcare professionals as and when this emerges.
- Strategic and systematic partnership with the GSK Clinical Operation colleagues in the different stages of the study (from study set-up to study close) by close & early engagement with the sites, ensuring appropriate scientific information exchange and contributing to study performance.
- Support GSK study teams with the provision of scientific education and enquiry management from investigators and staff engaged in GSK-supported clinical trials e.g. GSK sponsored R&D studies or Investigator-Sponsored Studies (ISS).
- Provide scientific education training for business partners such as Key Account Managers by being the local scientific expert for a medicine or group of medicines in a therapy area.
- Maintain a level of expertise in the evolving scientific / therapeutic area and in competitor medicines.
- Attend scientific meetings and congresses to keep abreast of the evolving science in a therapy area and to confidently debate and discuss the science with external experts as presented at the meeting.
- Fully understand and comply with GSK standards and policies and with local codes of practice, guidelines and laws to ensure the strictest requirements are met.
Why you?
Basic Qualifications :
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
Higher degree in life sciences: PhD, MSc or equivalent AND/OR other professional healthcare provision qualification with experience (e.g. physician, surgeon, physiotherapist or pharmacist)
AND/OR
A significant (e.g., 3 years) amount of pharmaceutical industry experience in a role successfully engaging in scientific exchange with external experts.
Preferred Qualifications : If you have the following characteristics it would be a plus:
- Medical Degree (MD, MBBS, MPharm, PharmD)
- Expertise in respiratory medicines (inhaled and biologicals)
- Fluent bilingual (French/English)
- Strong academic background having participated in, or led research projects and authored publications
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If you have a disability and require assistance during the course of the selection process, you will have the opportunity to let us know what specific assistance you require in order to make suitable arrangements.
Why GSK?
Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns as an organisati