**Job Function**:
Medical Affairs Group
**Job Sub Function**:
Medical Science Liaison
**Job Category**:
Scientific/Technology
**All Job Posting Locations**:
Madrid, Spain
**Job Description**:
Johnson & Johnson, compañía líder en el sector, busca incorporar un competente de Medical Scientific Liaison para su unidad de **Hipertensión Arterial Pulmonar** con residencia en Madrid.**
Con el porfolio y pipeline más interesante del sector, J&J; ofrece la oportunidad de formar parte de un proyecto innovador, puntero y referente dentro de la industria farmacéutica.
Como parte de Johnson & Johnson, nuestra misión es transformar la vida de los pacientes mediante el descubrimiento y desarrollo de soluciones innovadoras para cubrir las necesidades médicas más importantes de nuestro tiempo.
Buscamos incorporar profesionales con talento, ganas ilimitadas de contribuir, aprender, y buenos ¨team-players¨, dispuestos a afrontar cualquier reto y a lograr resultados excelentes. Buscamos personas que sean capaces de encontrar oportunidades y proactivamente fomentar su propio desarrollo.
**Principales funciones que desempeñar**:
- To keep abreast of **medical and scientific knowledge.**
- Continuous update on products, patient’s treatment trends, clinical activities and studies conducted within the therapeutic area in their region.
- Development and maintenance of a **contact network with Leading Specialists**.
- Understand their needs, key value drivers, practical treatment patterns and scientific activities within therapeutic area
- Communicate value of company products, incl. clinical questionnaire discussions
- Through scientific interactions, communicate medical benefits of products and contribute to foster innovative approaches
- Represent the company within professional associations in the therapeutic area in cooperation with Medical Affairs/ Medical Education and other positions in the Medical Affairs Department
- Proactive and reactive **communication of medical scientific data** according to following criteria
- Proactive Scientific Communication to Leading Specialists must be consistent with the last approved Summary of Product Characteristics regarding the safe and effective use of approved products in approved indications. Content of Scientific Communication should be highly scientific, accurate, fair and objective, based on an up-to-date evaluation of all relevant evidence and reflect that evidence clearly, using neither marketing claims nor brand name.
- In some very specific circumstances, the MSL can interact proactively with non-Leading Specialists. The program should be clearly defined in the MSL Country Activity Plan, providing the rational, the objective, content, timelines and selection criteria of the HCPs to be involved.
- Description of R&D; programs and discussing regulatory developments with no promotional intent are also part of Scientific Communication.
- Reactive Communication of medical scientific data can be provided upon request to any Health Care Professional, within the approved label or off-label. The request should come either directly from the HCP or via the Medical Information department. MSLs are required to document all off-label information requests they receive from Leading Specialists and other HCPs that they may interact with.
- Organization and participation in **Medical Education activities,**at local &/regional level:
- Identify/support/educate speakers
- Build Medical Education programs with scientific third party
- Collaborate with Medical Education manager in National Medical education activities
- Provide scientific material under request. MSLs may initiate discussion with potential speakers, discussing documents/ slides which may be of help for future presentations.
- Organization and participation in **Advisory Boards** in cooperation with Medical Affairs/Medical Education/other positions in the Medical Affairs Department.
- ** Market Access Discussions**
MSLs can present highly scientific, accurate, fair and objective data to Payors (Hospital Formulary Committees, Health Insurers, Health Technology Assessment Committees, etc) to provide them with objective information about Company products.
- ** Pre
- Approval Activities**
MSLs can engage in interactions with Payors to raise awareness so that payors can plan and budget so that patients can receive the product when it becomes available. MSLs can organize Speakers training to prepare speakers for delivering presentations to other HCP when the Marketing Authorization is granted.
- Provision of **scientific support to company Sales Representatives**and other company representatives
- Provide medical and product training and scientific support to Sales Representatives in coordination with Training/Medical Affairs Department as appropriate
- Act as a reference point to Sales Representatives for any scientific query, in collaboration with Medical Information as appropriate.
- ** Local implementation of Medical Affairs Plan