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Senior Medical Science Liaison Italy Rare Tumor

Merck Group
Italyfull_timeVerifiedPosted 27 Jan 2026

About the role

 

Work Your Magic with us!  

 

Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.  

 

United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.

 

SpringWorks Therapeutics, a company from our Healthcare division, is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to improving the lives of patients with rare tumors. 

We developed and are commercializing the first and only FDA and EC approved medicine for adults with desmoid tumors and the first and only FDA and EC approved medicine for both adults and children with neurofibromatosis type 1 associated plexiform neurofibromas (NF1-PN). At SpringWorks, we are committed to finding answers people with rare tumors need. We thrive in an atmosphere of passion and tenacity, fueled by the excitement of the possibilities science may unlock and driven to work with urgency because of the importance of our work. We value authenticity because diverse backgrounds, cultures, styles and abilities can only help us find the answers that people with rare tumors are looking for.

 

Your Role:


As the Senior Medical Science Liasion for our newly acquired company, SpringWorks, you will play a pivotal role in driving operations and strategic growth within your designated area in Italy.

You will be responsible for managing a company product(s) within a defined area. This entails establishing and maintaining key scientific relationships with Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) within their territory and serving as a scientific expert to the medical community and facilitating the appropriate exchange of scientific information.

Key expectations include being able to develop and maintain an advanced scientific, medical, and product knowledge base, ability to communicate key insights learned, and disseminate critical scientific data to external stakeholders; including but not limited to academic/scientific/clinical experts and patient organizations.

You will be responsible for ensuring timely and appropriate input on the field medical engagement plans in support of our clinical development andcommercialization programs and activities. In addition, you will assist, lead, and drive the support of the company’s clinical trials in partnership with technical development team and with researchers as appropriate.

You will be expected to master the MSL responsibilities and be able to take on additional leadership roles on projects and initiatives within the country. You will be expected to work independently with little direction/oversight, be accountable, and assist the Medical Director as needed.

Key Responsibilities will include:

  • Identify KOLs and establish and maintain strong and deep scientific relationships with KOLs across multi-specialty disciplines, connecting to KOLs in academic and non-academic centers at the local, regional, and national level.
  • Serve as a scientific expert to the medical community and facilitate the appropriate exchange of scientific information
  • Communicate experts’ opinion and feedback on new data and clinical trends to Medical Affairs and translate this information into strategic recommendations to enhance science and advance patient care
  • Act as primary liaison to investigators interested in developing and performing investigator-initiated research
  • Collaborate with the Clinical Operations organization to enhance patient enrollment in company-sponsored clinical trials by identifying appropriate clinical trial sites, supporting clinical trial awareness, and interacting with investigators in ongoing studies
  • Serve as medical lead and provide scientific support at medical congresses, support national and European medical booths staffing, participate and lead clinical support, and facilitate medical discussions at advisory boards and local scientific/medical programs

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