Job Description

Medical Affairs (MA) is a key discipline at Sirtex. Our US vision comes from Dr. Catherine Parham- our Chief Medical Officer. She's focused on understanding and meeting the needs within the field of oncology as well as those patients, providers, and internal stakeholders, with the goal of improving patient care. Her team oversees the generation and dissemination of research and clinical information regarding the safe and appropriate use of Sirtex therapies. Dr. Parham and the MA team are committed, alongside their Clinical Affairs teammates, to achieving this vision through accurate, credible, and balanced data generation. And in communicating and educating about scientific information. We accomplish this in collaboration with, and in response to, the medical scientific, and patient communities.

What You’ll Do

The Medical Science Liaison (MSL) is a field-based Medical Affairs colleague and medical/scientific expert. The MSL focuses on supporting research collaboration and engagement with healthcare providers, providing fair and balanced (non-promotional) education, and scientific exchange. You’ll communicate new and important medical content related to the safe and appropriate use of SIR-Spheres® Y-90 resin microspheres on- and off-label to health care professionals (HCP) in local, regional, and national capacities. This means providing fair and balanced scientific information in response to unsolicited medical requests from HCPs in a manner that’s compliant. You’ll also provide therapeutic and product expertise for your region and other Medical Affairs and clinical development needs. Contributing customer insights to the development of brand medical strategies and facilitating both sponsored and investigator-initiated research (IIR) activities too.

Accountabilities would include many components, much of which are captured below. You will:

• Provide credible scientific expertise within Sirtex and share scientific insights that will impact company strategies.
• Identify, profile, and provide scientific exchange with external experts.
• Support evidence-generation activities by aiding and maintaining awareness of clinical trial activity, support company-sponsored trials by helping to identify appropriate sites and investigators, engaging investigators, sharing trial updates, identifying challenges related to the trial, and communicating relevant information to internal stakeholders.
• Respond to unsolicited requests for medical information associated with our products.
• Respond to unsolicited requests regarding interest in investigator-initiated trials (IIT).
• Provide non-promotional scientific support activities at major scientific congresses; and collect, summarize insights, and share relevant scientific information presented at congresses within your Medical Affairs team.
• Collect, summarize, and communicate actionable scientific insights across the Medical Affairs team to further drive the Medical Affairs strategy.
• Formulate and update your specific regional scientific engagement plans consistent with our field Medical Affairs strategy and other medical function priorities.
• Support colleagues by engaging in peer coaching and teamwork across the organization.
• Contribute to the creation of training material for internal and external stakeholders.
• Support speaker training to ensure continued scientific support in the field.
• Organize educational meetings (i.e., local scientific advisory boards) as requested.

Qualifications

We care about liver cancer patients and that means we care about the education and expertise of the people we hire. In this role, the highest academic degree that can be awarded in a particular field in either a health science or clinical discipline is strongly preferred to include MD, PharmD, Ph.D., or Advanced nursing degree; a master’s degree in health science (i.e., MSN) with extensive clinical experience could also be considered.

To be successful in this role, we’ll require that you have:

• Strong bias towards compassion for patients.
• At least 3+ years' successful experience as a field-based Medical Science Liaison (MSL) in the biotech/medical device/pharmaceutical industry. This is essential in the person we hire.
• Leadership in how you carry yourself
• Clinical Study savviness
• Excellent teammate who always assumes positive intent in relationships with colleagues
• Excellent communication with the ability to engender trust and establish credibility across the Medical Affairs organization.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• An innate self-starter, that’s driven to deliver quality results, on time, in a highly ethical, compliant, and professional manner.
• The consummate team player attitude with demonstrated ability and desire to function in a fast-paced, changing, and interactive environment.
• Maintain self-awareness and continually choose behaviors and responses based on how it impacts one’s own and others’ performance and engagement.
• Excellent planning, organizing, follow-up skills and excellent interpersonal skills; and the ability to work with a diverse group of partners from different geographic areas required.
• A sense of humor. We take our science and patients seriously but not ourselves.

Preferred (but not required)

• Oncology and/or Liver Disease/Hepatology experience.

• Strong scientific, interpersonal, and business acumen required.

• Rapidly adapt and utilize new digital technology and other resources where multiple data sources are maintained. Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel required.

• Experience using on-demand video conferencing platforms required.

Additional Information

Our EEO statement…

Sirtex is committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person’s race, color, gender, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or any characteristic protected under applicable law. Sirtex will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.

Diversity drives innovation; inclusion fosters belonging, growth and success. Sirtex believes that it takes multiple perspectives and voices to create a culture and workplace which fosters engagement, teamwork, and employee satisfaction to perform our best and deliver on commitments. We are dedicated to fostering an environment where all employees feel valued, included, and can share their ideas so that we can exceed even our own expectations.

Do you want to be part of something bigger? A team whose impact stretches across the globe making a real difference to the quality of people’s lives. Sirtex recognizes that well-being, financial health, and work-life balance are crucial for our employees to achieve personal success.

Sirtex offers qualified candidates:

• Diverse and flexible work arrangements to achieve the optimum balance between work and personal responsibilities.
• A culture of respect, diversity, collaboration, and innovation fostering inclusiveness and superior performance.
• Attractive compensation and benefit packages which are practical, robust and equitable.
• A commitment to support ongoing professional growth through career development, on the job experiences and training opportunities.
• Challenging work which supports the development of new and better ways to improve clinical outcomes for oncology treatment around the world.
• An unwavering commitment to company values, employee safety and excellence in everything we do.

Diversity drives innovation; inclusion fosters belonging, growth and success. Sirtex believes that it takes multiple perspectives and voices to create a culture and workplace which fosters engagement, teamwork, and employee satisfaction to perform our best and deliver on commitments. We are dedicated to fostering an environment where all employees feel valued, included, and can share their ideas so that we can exceed even our own expectations.

Sirtex is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other characteristic protected under applicable law. Sirtex will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.