Medical Science Liaison - East South Central

General Scope and Summary 

Sage Therapeutics is searching for a creative, resourceful, integrative thinker for a highly visible role that serves as the primary Sage external medical expert in a defined region, providing advanced subject matter expertise in disease and product education as well as facilitating external collaboration opportunities aligning with Sage's mission. This person will support the territory of Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, and Western Kentucky.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Develop scientific collaboration and exchange with external physicians, nurses, scientific experts, hospital teams, educators, and investigators within a defined geography.

• Serve as the primary Sage external medical representative for all key stakeholders, providing deep and advanced disease state and product information as well as facilitating the collaboration aligning with Sage's mission.

• Consistently collect, report, and represent clinical insights and unanswered questions received from external contacts to the appropriate channels internally.

• Understand and effectively communicate current scientific knowledge.

  • Build and maintain technical and clinical expertise within women’s health/psychiatry/neurology and related areas to engage in deep scientific discussions.

  • Engage in continuous learning within the therapeutic area they represent.

  • Attend appropriate scientific meetings, conduct routine literature searches, and communicate regularly with each other to assure that the entire group benefits from individual learning whenever it is relevant.

  • Establish oneself as a reliable, trusted resource of accurate, up-to-date medical and scientific knowledge requested and desired by healthcare providers.

  • Promptly respond to personal or electronic inquiries with any available information, which may include reprints or posters, medical letters, literature citations, access to internal and external experts, slides, and other related material.

• Assist in Medical Affairs projects with a local/regional scope by sharing responsibility including alignment on goals with internal colleagues, exhibiting a problem-solving approach, assessing and coordinating resources, managing timelines, budgets, and vendors, conducting debriefing, and recommending process improvements.

• Effectively manage administrative activities.

• Demonstrate not only scientific and customer expertise, but also the ability to understand, present, and effectively utilize approved resources to fulfill administrative, procedural, and legal requirements in order to address the customer needs. These activities may include proficiency in computer skills and database entry, continual compliance of all procedural requirements of the role (i.e., good documentation practices, standards, and procedures), and appropriate utilization and best practice sharing of available resources.

• Interact with hospital pharmacy director, Medical Directors, and payer thought leaders to provide requested disease state, epidemiology, diagnosis, and relevant RSE treatment education. Work in conjunction with members of the Commercial team (i.e., Key Account Managers, DMs, and Reimbursement Managers) to objectively and accurately communicate the science and clinical trial results.

• Partner with internal Advocacy function to determine engagement needs and educational opportunities for patient advocacy groups, which may help advance disease understanding.

• Provide ongoing disease and product training to internal and field personnel.

• Facilitate access to educational grant request process and alignment of incoming ISS's (Investigator-Sponsored Studies) with internal areas of scientific interest.

• Provide prompt intake and responses for medical information and requests for Medical Affairs support.

Experience, Education and Specialized Knowledge and Skills

Must thrive working in a fast -paced, innovative environment while remaining flexible, proactive, resourceful, and efficient. Must have excellent interpersonal skills, the ability to develop important relationships with key stakeholders, good conflict management and negotiation skills, and the ability to analyze complex issues to develop relevant and realistic plans, programs, and recommendations. Must have a demonstrated ability to translate strategy into action, excellent analytical skills, and an ability to communicate complex issues in a simple way and to orchestrate plans to resolve issues and mitigate risks.

This role is a field-based position, and the ideal candidate must