Lead Medical Science Liaison (Germany)

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Company Overview

Exact Sciences is dedicated to delivering patient critical answers across the cancer journey from early detection to treatment decision making. With a strong focus on people and an empathetic spirit, we create and deliver solutions rooted in the needs of patients, providers, and families. We help people get the answers they need to make more informed decisions across the cancer continuum, from early detection to treatment guidance and monitoring.

Exact Sciences offers a leading portfolio of products for earlier detection and treatment guidance, helping people face challenging decisions with confidence. We continuously expand the pipeline with efforts like expanding the Oncotype IQ platform to include liquid and tissue-based tests, developing liquid biopsy technologies, and collaborating with world-class clinicians and scientists.

Position Summary

Representing the medical function, the MSL will act as a medical/clinical education liaison to external and internal stakeholders, while supporting commercial business and reimbursement objectives for the portfolio of products, most notably for breast and colorectal cancers. This role will engage with customers and colleagues across medical affairs and commercial groups to provide medical and scientific support for our on-market as well as help launch newer products into the international region.

Essential Duties

• Inline Product & Team Support
  • Deliver education to the broad HCP community, including KOLs, oncologists, pathologists, surgeons, nurses, and payors regarding Exact Sciences products.
  • Serve as an external, credible scientific expert at HCP field meetings, key medical and scientific conferences, advisory boards, clinical investigator meetings, and patient advocacy group meetings.
  • Respond to unsolicited requests for medical information on Exact Sciences products in a credible, balanced, objective manner.
  • Participate in the development and execution of a KOL outreach plan.
  • Identify and map KOLs, other stakeholders, key accounts, and patient referral patterns and pathways.
  • Maintain and develop synergistic relationships with KOLs to expand research, advisory, and educational partnership opportunities.
  • Support medical-marketing initiatives, such as conference planning and support, medical education content development, faculty speaker training, sales training, reimbursement initiatives.
  • Work with medical directors to translate complex medical messages into clear, concise understanding for both external audiences and internal partners.
  • Stay abreast of new clinical developments, publications, and market trends to serve as a conduit for the greater medical team and other internal teams.
  • Assist with establishing and delivering advisory boards, speaker trainings, and external payor reviews, as needed.
  • Support preparation and presentation of medical review slides and materials at national sales meetings, pre-conference meetings, and field sales conference calls.
  • Attend, develop summaries of, and present key medical findings from scientific congresses.
  • Gather and interpret new clinical data from conferences and literature, as well as competitive intelligence, and report back on findings to medical affairs and marketing stakeholders.
• Pipeline & Clinical Trials Support
  • Identify physicians currently managing patients with breast and colorectal cancer and cultivate a network of experts at academic and community centers to identify new trial sites and/or drive patient referrals and rapid enrollment.
  • Deliver medical/scientific training to clinical study sites and provide input on key internal stakeholders on training materials for clinical trials, products in development, therapeutic areas, and disease state as outlined by the trial sponsor.
  • Establish and maintain strong working relationships with Principal Investigators (PIs) and clinical trial sites to support enrollment and conduct of Exact Sciences clinical studies; facilitate escalation of investigator questions/concerns, recruitment/retention initiatives, and clinical site & investigator meetings related to recruitment strategies.

Minimum Qualifications

• Advanced degree in a clinical specialty (PharmD, PhD, MD) with clinical experience.
• 3-5+ years’ experience as an MSL/CTL or senior clinical development role.
• 3+ years Oncology experience required.
• 3+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry with knowledge of clinical research design and conduct.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Diagnostics or Biotech industry is a plus.

Skills

• Excellent oral, written and presentation communication skills; excellent English, multiple languages preferred.
• Proficient use of Microsoft Office Suite and other IT systems.
• Experience with VEEVA systems is a plus.
• Ability to independently deliver quality results in a timely manner.
• Ability to work as part of a team.

Cultural Impact

• Highest integrity and ethical behavior.
• Mutual respect for colleagues.
• Collaborative within teams, uses resources carefully and can build a great place to work and grow.
• Ability to interact within culturally diverse teams.
• Business acumen and innovative mindset; ability to manage through complexity and ambiguity while focusing on the end goal.
• Discretion with sensitive and confidential information.

Other

• Ability to travel 60-70% of working time away from work location, may include overnight/weekend travel.

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