Medical Engagement Lead

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**Position Summary**

The primary role of MEL is to engage in meaningful peer-to-peer scientific dialog with healthcare system National Thought Leaders (NTLs) within a defined geography.

The MEL conducts critical activities that support advancing science, educating on evolving clinical practices, transforming science into patient care, and facilitating the development of new research collaborations (including IIT and RWE).

The role collaborates with colleagues on capturing medical insights and acts as a therapeutic area resource to cross-functional partners. Engagement with TLs should be aligned with medical strategies, and the role should provide insight back to home office to inform strategy.

This role is field-based and regional in scope. It is anticipated that the employee will spend at least 60% of the time in the field interacting with external stakeholders, including investigators and clinical thought leaders while supporting internal stakeholders and maintaining a high level of therapeutic expertise.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Engaging in high-quality peer-to-peer scientific dialog with key National thought leaders in Dermatology/ Rheumatology focused on pre
- and peri-launch period.
- **Medical Strategy Advisory**
- Collaborates with NTLs to identify and generate insights on evolving care paradigms to inform medical strategy
- Provides strategic input into materials for national medical congresses. Collects meaningful medical insights and communicates to the medical and commercial organizations to support strategy development and business decisions.
- **Evidence facilitation**
- Facilitates scientific partnerships and research collaborations in collaboration with GDD
- Provides recommendations and insights to the clinical development team on study feasibilities within the therapeutic area based on knowledge of the field and through direct contacts with potential investigators, as agreed with home office medical and GDO
- Proactively leads BMS major evidence readouts to investigators partnering with GDD. Reactively discuss major evidence readouts with other thought-leaders
- Liaises with large key accounts to understand clinical levers and barriers to patient access in the context of clinical trials
- **Medical engagement**:

- Effectively collaborates and communicates with NTLs to gain insights into the clinical landscape
- Engages in scientific and clinical conversation to ensure the development of a product/disease area-focused medical plan that translates into effective launch and LCM activities
- Responsible for conducting evidence read-outs with the most prominent institutions, e.g., Ph 3 top-line data.
- Engages with medical societies, PAG, and guideline discussions as appropriate.
- Engage account-level decision makers in selected AMCs to help identify barriers and solutions to improve patient care and outcomes

**Required Qualifications & Experience**
- MD recruited from top clinical practice and hospital-academic centers or PhD with a very strong external profile.
- Proven record of developing high impact peer-to-peer relationships and influence with high impact NTLs.
- Strong Dermatology and/ or Rheumatology experience required:

- scientific or clinical area, patient treatment trends, clinical landscape
- pharmaceutical industry, including compliance and regulatory guidelines
- clinical trial design and process
- national and regional healthcare and access environment
- Working in a scientific and/or clinical research environment.
- Deep understanding of TL environment and needs.

**Key competencies desired**

**Scientific Agility**
- Ability to engage in a peer-to-peer dialog about data in a fair and balanced way
- Expert knowledge of clinical practice and evolving healthcare delivery models
- Ability to understand and critically appraise scientific publications
- Knowledge of clinical trial design and methodology, including Good Clinical Practices and ethical, governmental, and regulatory requirements.
- Understands treatment paradigms and can frame information in a convincing way that resonates with physicians
- Excellent communication and presentation skills to articulate scientific and clinical data in an easy-to-understand manner to help HCPs best serve their patients
- Has a strong learning mindset and passion for science. Prioritizes staying current with the latest data