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Principal Scientist, Medical Consult and Review Physician

MSD
USA - Pennsylvania - North Wales (Upper Gwynedd), United States, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 9 Jan 2026
💰 $402,700/yr($255,800/yr$402,700/yr)

About the role

Job Description

Role Summary

  • The Medical Consult and Review Physician (MCRP) position resides in the Value & Implementation (V&I) organization, which includes Global Medical and Scientific Affairs as well as Outcomes Research.
  • This position provides clinical expertise and advice to internal stakeholders and is a member of several cross-functional teams, including the Promotional Review Team (PRT), Digital Engagement Team (DET), Lead/Last, and V&I medical Team.
  • Key responsibilities include ensuring the clinical relevance and medical accuracy of data/information in promotional materials, external communications, and field-based employee training; participating in strategic planning, global scientific-content development, and the review/approval of standard response documents (SRDs) on product safety and efficacy; interacting with health-care providers (HCPs) to help answer unsolicited professional medical information requests (MIRs); providing medical and scientific training to internal stakeholders; collaborating to develop training content and implement scientific updates; and providing consultation for Compendia and Pathways submissions. Additionally, this position serves as a subject-matter expert (SME) and serves as a consultant to various parts of the company (e.g., commercial, manufacturing, supply chain, business development) regarding supply-related decisions such as deletions, divestitures, and supply constraints. This position also helps lead US Patient Advocate Expert Input Meetings when required and submits on-label information to U.S. guidelines committees when needed.

Responsibilities and Primary Activities

Medical Review of Promotional Materials

  • Provides clinical expert guidance and advice to Commercial Brand teams to influence promotional strategy and messaging based on scientific evidence and clinical context.
  • Serves as a member of the Promotion Review Team (PRT), responsible for ensuring the clinical relevance and medical accuracy of data/information in promotional materials, external communications, and Field-Based Employee (FBE) training content.
  • Supports Country Medical Directors as headquarters (HQ) point of contact and SME for medical review.
  • Serves as a product SME during V&I global assurance process for country assessment.

Digital Engagement Teams

  • Provides clinical-expert guidance and advice in the creation of digital promotional assets based on scientific evidence and clinical context.
  • Serves as a member of the extended team, responsible for ensuring the clinical relevance and medical accuracy of data/information in promotional materials and external-communications content

Medical Information

  • Provides actionable insights for strategic planning and global scientific-content development of medical-information assets, ensuring adequate integration of scientific evidence with patient safety and clinical relevance elements in a customer-centric approach.
  • Reviews all medical information resources and standard response documents containing product safety, tolerability, and efficacy data.
  • Interacts with HCPs who request a live discussion with physicians to answer unsolicited MIRs.
  • Reviews health-outcomes-related standard-response documents and drug dossiers to ensure clinical relevance and medical accuracy of the content.
  • Is a proactive participant and consultant for Compendia and Pathways submissions. Owner of Clinical Practice Guideline submissions.

Strategic Coordination and Alignment

  • Proactively works with the Global Scientific & Value Content (GSVC) team and participates in the product strategic planning, ensuring a tailored approach in creating and disseminating scientific content aligned with key scientific priorities and the GSVC plan.
  • Serves as medical representative on the Deletion and Divestiture Committee (DDC). Provides medical-significance assessments to inform product deletions, divestitures, stock-outs, and shortages.
  • Proactively engages in peer-to-peer conversations with key colleagues in our company Research & Development (R&D) division to provide/request input and ensure alignment to enhance the provision of accurate and customized medical information assets for customers and stakeholders.
  • Works as an active participant on select teams to provide insights on labeling language, anticipate activities related to labeling u

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