Medical Science Liaison

Site Name: UAE - Dubai

Posted Date: Mar 25 2025

As a Medical Science Liaison, the MSL is a pivotal field-based role that serves as a bridge between the company and the healthcare community. This non-promotional, customer-facing position focuses on advancing clinical practice within an assigned territory to improve patient outcomes. The MSL brings deep clinical and therapeutic expertise and market/landscape knowledge to engage with Healthcare Providers (HCPs) in alignment with GSK's strategic medical plans.

Key objectives of the MSL include engaging with various community and academic opinion leaders facilitating scientific exchange and serving as a medical resource. These scientific interactions aim to ensure that patients have access to GSK medicines, promote their safe and appropriate use through peer-to-peer discussions, close gaps in unmet medical needs, and align with our medical strategies and the needs of the HCPs they engage.

The MSL role is crucial for identifying disease and product-related medical needs, ensuring the exchange of scientific knowledge, capturing and communicating medical insights, and facilitating research to advance clinical practice.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following:

Key Responsibilities:

• Leverage scientific expertise and market knowledge to identify and engage HCPs (including academic and community HCPs, Pharmacists, nurses, and other healthcare professionals) who may have educational needs and can provide insights needed to inform medical plans.
• Engage with HCPs on emerging data, clinical trials, medical unmet needs, patient barriers to access, market dynamics, and educate on disease state and product information.
• Contribute to medical strategy by collecting and communicating medical insights throughout the product lifecycle and understanding the potential impact of these insights.
• Demonstrate strategic territory planning and management and appropriate identification, mapping, and planning of scientific engagements in territory with key accounts and aligned with medical strategy.
• Support clinical trials by facilitating relevant medical activities and collaborating with Medical Affairs and Clinical Operations colleagues.
• Collaborate with internal colleagues (e.g., Medical Affairs, marketing, commercial, sales) to ensure a customer-centric approach aligned with GSK Standard Operating Procedures.
• Understand and address the unique medical needs (e.g. educational needs, pathways).
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of assigned therapeutic areas and GSK medicines to serve as a medical resource to both external stakeholders and internal colleagues. Understand the landscape and prepare to address educational needs of customers.
• Adhere to GSK’s Code of Conduct, policies and standards, and relevant way of working documents. Ensure all activities are conducted in a compliant manner, reflecting GSK's commitment to transparency, respect, integrity and patient focus.
• Execute all administrative responsibilities, training, and documentation requirements in a timely manner.
• Participate in Field Medical and cross-enterprise projects and teams that support Medical strategies and tactics.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• MD, Pharmacist, PHD and other life-sciences or equivalent.
• Effective communication skills and ability to tailor information to different audiences appropriately.
• Ability to translate complex science into simple messages.
• Solid grounding in clinical, medical and pharmaceutical science with the ability to rapidly assimilate specific and detailed knowledge in these areas.
• An understanding of clinical development, and statistical design and analysis.
• Effective networking and collaboration skills to achieve business results.
• A sense of curiosity and a passion for continuous learning and development.
• Fluent English, verbally and in writing.
• Availability for travel.

Preferred Qualifications and Skills:

Please note the following skills are not necessary, just preferred, if you do not have them, please still apply:

• A significant (e.g. 3 years) amount of pharmaceutical industry experience in a role successfully engaging in scientific exchange with external experts.
• Pharmaceutical Medical Affairs experience in the field of Specialty Care.

Closing date:

04/04/2025

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

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