Sr. Medical Science Liaison - Cardiovascular - CO, WY, SD, ND

Career Category

Medical Affairs

Job Description

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.

Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.

Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Senior Medical Science Liaison - Cardiovascular

Territory includes CO, WY, SD, ND

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world.

This is a field-based position for the Cardiovascular Senior Medical Science Liaison (CV Sr. MSL) therapeutic area within the US Medical team. The CV Sr. MSL will interact with Cardiology Opinion Leaders and Healthcare Decision Makers to communicate and advance the scientific platform as aligned with Amgen's corporate goals and objectives. Accountabilities and Responsibilities for the CV MSL include:

Accountabilities:

• Field-based medical expert in the Medical Science Liaison (MSL) group within the US Medical organization

• An integral position in communicating accurate, clear, and valued information regarding our science and products to multiple levels within the medical community and are responsible for providing field observations to internal stakeholders

• Support Scientific Education Plan (SEP) in developing local territory R&D tactics

Responsibilities:

• Engage with healthcare stakeholders to educate and communicate clinical and scientific data to advance the scientific platform as aligned with Amgen’s corporate goals and objectives

• Educate and communicate clinical value, outcomes, and economic data to payers, providers, key stakeholders, advocacy, and access enablers

• Respond to unsolicited inquiries consistent with the MSL compliance standards

• Provide and/or present field observations and insights to internal stakeholders

• Execute scientific engagement plan according to annual MSL goals and metrics

• Develop and implement local OL plans in line with scientific engagement plan

• Support speaker training as requested and ensure the speakers are updated on new data

• Support Amgen sponsored research and may serve as a study lead

• Liaise with potential investigators in non-sponsored clinical research

• Lead and/or participate on project teams that support MSL strategies and tactics as delegated by MSL leadership

• Advance MSL value proposition, identify gaps, achieve results, and set an example for others to follow by consistently demonstrating Amgen values and leadership attributes.  Demonstrate tact and professionalism when communicating and interacting with others

• Lead and support congress activities as aligned with strategy

• Compliantly collaborate with cross-functional colleagues.  May serve as main point of contact

• Maintain clinical acumen and expertise and timely completion of assigned training. 

Additional Responsibilities:

• Ensure continued development as a highly-skilled medical expert in the therapeutic area

• Employ command and continued growth as related to strategic business acumen

• Maintain a positive and respectful work environment and motivation to work toward common goals and priorities

• Master core skills and capabilities among staff, particularly in learning agility, problem solving, strategic and creative thinking, flexibility, resilience, effective communication, prioritization, delivery of results and continued improvement

• Identify new opportunities to resolve capability and skill gaps

• Ensure adherence to administrative tasks

Competencies:

• Plans and Organizes Work

• Builds Relationships and Impacts Others

• Achieves High Performance

• Maintains Industry and Technical Acumen

• Leverages Clinical and Therapeutic Expertise

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