About the Role
The Medical Science Liaison (MSL) embodies our medical mission to be a trusted partner for internal stakeholders and the healthcare community, driving scientific exchange to enhance medical education, data generation, insight generation, and patient access to medicine. The primary role is to develop and maintain relationships with Thought Leaders (TL) and Healthcare Providers (HCP) within their healthcare system to ensure patients have access to BMS medicines, facilitate research, and serve as a medical resource.
Responsibilities
- Identify disease and product related medical needs in a defined geography.
- Develop and maintain relationships with Thought Leaders (TL) and Healthcare Providers (HCP) within their healthcare system.
- Engage in meaningful scientific exchange to ensure patients have access to BMS medicines.
- Ensure safe and appropriate use of medicines through peer-to-peer discussions aligned with medical strategies.
- Facilitate research.
- Serve as the medical resource for external stakeholders in the community.
- Develop and maintain relationships with academic and community research thought leaders, appropriate HCPs, and access stakeholders.
- Answer scientific, unsolicited product, and HEOR related questions.
- Use various channels for interactions (1:1, group presentations, remote, etc.).
- Demonstrate proficiency in using available scientific resources and presentations.
- Effectively present information to TL/HCPs and respond to questions, ensuring medical accuracy and compliance.
- Actively assess the medical landscape by meeting with TL/HCPs/Access Stakeholders to understand their needs and expertise.
- Continuously update knowledge in treatment strategies, products, unmet medical needs, clinical trials, health economics outcomes research, and scientific activities.
- Understand the competitive landscape and evolving healthcare models.
- Identify opportunities to partner with HCPs on disease state initiatives, collaborative research projects, and investigator-sponsored research (ISR).
- Attend medical congresses and local/regional meetings.
- Collect and provide meaningful medical insights by communicating them back to the medical and commercial organizations.
- Develop geography-specific Field Medical and TL Interaction plans.
- Adopt an institution/account planning approach and contribute to cross-functional plans.
- Contribute to the development and delivery of scientifically meaningful medical programs/projects.
- Establish a customer-centric, compliant collaboration with cross-matrix field teams.
- Support the initial and ongoing medical/scientific area and product specific training for internal stakeholders.
- Provide scientific support at promotional meetings by presenting scientific and clinical data.
- Evaluate speakers and give support to BMS-contracted speakers.
- Participate in assigned Congress activities.
- Support Interventional and Non Interventional Research (NIR) studies.
- Provide recommendations and insights to clinical development teams on study and site feasibilities.
- Support HCPs in the ISR submission and execution process and study follow-up.
- Ensure investigators of local studies understand and apply BMS Pharmacovigilance procedural documents.
- Alert appropriate BMS personnel to any identified Adverse Events.
- Actively support CRO sponsored studies.
Requirements
- MD, PharmD, PhD, APP, PA, NP with experience in a specific Disease Area or with a broad medical background and relevant pharmaceutical experience.
- Disease area knowledge and an understanding of scientific publications.
- Knowledge of a scientific or clinical area, competitive landscape and patient treatment trends.
- Knowledge of clinical trial design and process.
- Knowledge of the national healthcare and access environment.
- Knowledge of HEOR core concepts.
- Excellent English language skills, spoken and written.
- Ability to work independently and act as a team player.
- Translating scientific or clinical data into an understandable and valuable form.
- Good communication and presentation skills.
- Developing peer-to-peer relationships with TLs, scientists and other healthcare professionals.
- Ability to quickly and comprehensively learn about new subject areas and environments.
- Demonstration of the BMS Values.
- Ability to drive a company-provided car is an essential qualification.
- Candidates must be able to drive a BMS-provided vehicle between locations.
- Candidates must possess a high level of ethics, integrity, and a safe driving history.
Skills
- Scientific exchange
- Medical education
- Data generation
- Insight generation
- Patient access to medicine
- Relationship building with Thought Leaders (TL) and Healthcare Providers (HCP)
- Scientific communication
- Research facilitation
- Medical resource provision
- Presentation skills
- Scientific data analysis
- Clinical trial support
- Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR)
Location
- Field - NYC, Long Island
Work Type
- Field-based
- Full-time
Experience Level
- A minimum of 2 years working in a clinical and/or pharmaceutical environment
- Prior MSL experience
Education Level
- MD
- PharmD
- PhD
- APP
- PA
- NP
Salary/Compensations
- $166,090 - $201,262
Benefits
- Health Coverage: Medical, pharmacy, dental, and vision care.
- Wellbeing Support: BMS Well-Being Account, BMS Living Life Better, and Employee Assistance Programs (EAP).
- Financial Well-being and Protection: 401(k) plan, short- and long-term disability, life insurance, accident insurance, supplemental health insurance, business travel protection, personal liability protection, identity theft benefit, legal support, and survivor support.
- Work-life benefits: Paid Time Off (flexible time off or 160 hours annual paid vacation, 11 national holidays, 3 optional holidays based on location/role).
- Additional time off may include unlimited paid sick time, paid volunteer days, summer hours flexibility, leaves of absence for medical, personal, parental, caregiver, bereavement, and military needs, and an annual Global Shutdown between Christmas and New Years Day.
About the Company
- Bristol Myers Squibb recognizes the importance of balance and flexibility in our work environment.
- We offer a wide variety of competitive benefits, services and programs that provide our employees with the resources to pursue their goals, both at work and in their personal lives.
- With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary.
- Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in a supportive culture, promoting global participation in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.
- BMS has an occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs.
- BMS is dedicated to ensuring that people with disabilities can excel through a transparent recruitment process, reasonable workplace accommodations/adjustments and ongoing support in their roles.
- BMS will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, pursuant to applicable laws in your area.
- We will never request payments, financial information, or social security numbers during our application or recruitment process.
- Any data processed in connection with role applications will be treated in accordance with applicable data privacy policies and regulations.
Equal Opportunity
- Applicants can request a reasonable workplace accommodation/adjustment prior to accepting a job offer.
- Visit careers.bms.com/eeo-accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment Opportunity statement.
