Medical Scientific Liaison – Molecular (Pacific Northwest, U.S.)

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The Position

Medical Scientific Liaison – Molecular (Pacific Northwest, U.S.)

A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That’s what makes us Roche.

The Opportunity:

The Medical Scientific Liaison (MSL) is a field-based scientific leader who represents Roche Medical & Scientific Affairs to laboratory and clinical stakeholders across your assigned region.

In this role, you will serve as a trusted partner to laboratory directors, infectious disease clinicians, and key decision-makers. You will translate complex molecular and clinical data into meaningful dialogue that advances patient care and informs regional and national medical strategy.

You will work closely with Sr. Scientific Managers and Sr. Medical Managers to help shape and execute an integrated medical plan grounded in real-world insights from the field. You will bring the voice of the customer to our medical plan and strategy. Your perspective will directly influence how we prioritize educational initiatives, support laboratories, and accelerate access to innovative diagnostics for patients.

This role sits within the Molecular Infectious Disease team in Medical & Scientific Affairs and requires scientific depth, intellectual curiosity, and the ability to engage peers in high-level clinical and technical discussion.

While you may bring deep expertise in a specific disease area, you are comfortable expanding into adjacent infectious disease topics and continuously strengthening your scientific foundation. This is a role for someone who thrives in independent field engagement while contributing meaningfully to a collaborative, strategy-driven medical team.

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

• Strategic Engagement: Serve as the primary scientific partner to regional KOLs, laboratories, and clinical stakeholders.

• Relationship Management: Build and sustain trusted, long-term partnerships to understand evolving customer needs and gaps.

• Insight Generation: Lead high-value scientific exchanges to capture actionable insights that inform medical strategy and portfolio planning.

• KOL Mapping & CRM Excellence: Identify emerging leaders and maintain accurate, timely documentation of interactions and insights in SFDC.

• Scientific Exchange & Education: Deliver impactful, non-promotional education to clinicians and laboratorians (in-person and virtual).

• Tailored Educational Support: Assess needs and provide customized resources (e.g., presentations, pipeline updates, speaker programs, PACE).

• Medical Expertise & Compliance: Maintain deep therapeutic knowledge and respond to unsolicited and off-label inquiries in line with compliance standards.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with medical and cross-functional teams to execute regional plans, support launches, and contribute to advisory boards and congress activities.

• Medical Excellence & Team Contribution: Ensure scientific accuracy, share best practices, support onboarding, and drive continuous improvement across MSA.

Who You Are:

• You are a scientifically credible, field-ready expert who is comfortable engaging laboratory directors, infectious disease physicians, and senior clinical stakeholders as a peer. You operate independently, think strategically, and translate complex molecular and clinical data into meaningful dialogue that advances patient care.

• Bachelor's Degree and 5+ years clinical/practice/industry experience OR Masters Level Degree in Science + 3 years of related clinical/practice/industry experience OR PhD level degree + 1 year of related clinical/practice/industry experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in molecular diagnostics, microbiology, infectious disease, or related field preferred; equivalent laboratory leadership experi