Job Description

The Medical Science Liaison (MSL) reports to our National Director of Field Medical. MSLs are field-based healthcare professionals to our customers. They will engage in compliant scientific exchange and provide whole practice education on disease state and respond to inquiries related to our products. **This is a 3-month contract position**

• Manage key opinion leader (KOL) optometrists and ophthalmologists in a designated region, ensuring compliant conduct per PhRMA guidelines.

• Be the primary medical affairs KOL point of contact for day to day needs and peer-based scientific exchange, adhering to our scientific platform; engagements may include both virtual and live interactions.

• Collect actionable insights from field scientific exchange, prioritize and collate these insights to shape medical strategy.

• Provide whole practice education to optometric and ophthalmic centers.

• Provide resources to facilitate disease state education in Optometry schools and Ophthalmology residency programs.

• Instruct customers (upon request) on investigator initiated trial and medical information procedures.

• Compliantly identify and recommend KOLs for a variety of projects (including advisory boards, medical education initiatives, training, publications, special projects, clinical trials, business development evaluations) based on expertise, interests, and competencies.

• Plan KOL engagements and schedule and attend scientific sessions at local, regional and national medical meetings as needed.

• Liaise with local and regional optometric and ophthalmic medical societies.

• Present scientific evidence to the payer community.

• Provide leadership and expertise on medical affairs projects and initiatives.

• Participate in continual optimization of training, insights gathering and field medical processes.

• Host local disease state scientific exchanges and lid+lash labs.

• Participate in compliant and collaborative engagements with cross-functional team members including training and KOL meetings.

• Provide clinical trial support as needed and determined by the clinical development team.

• Manage territory budget, metrics, KOL mapping and CRM entries.

• Doctorate of Optometry, or MD, PharmD, PhD with eye care expertise required.

• 2+ years of experience as a medical science liaison in eye care is preferred; or 3+ years of clinical experience in eyecare with at least one year of industry experience or 7+ years of clinical practice in eyecare.

• Strong emotional intelligence and presentation skills.

• Ability to plan, organize, manage, and prioritize workload proactively in a fast-paced environment.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and customer relationship management software.

• Ability to work independently, be self-motivated, and navigate complex systems and processes.

• Ability to collect actionable insights and critically analyze data.

• Strong collaboration and influencing skills.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills to convey technical and clinical information.

• Territory Includes: Northern California and Pacific Northwest

• Ideal Candidate Locations: San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; Portland, OR

• Travel: 60-80%

• Candidates must live in their assigned territory; preference given to those within 45 minutes of a major airport or metropolitan area.

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