Entity: CSL Behring

Job Category: Medical Affairs

Job Family: Medical Science Liaison

Job Type: Full Time

Location: Mechelen, Antwerp, Belgium

Employer Reference: R-279305

We are seeking a Medical Scientist to join our Cardiorenal Benelux Medical Affairs team, with a strong focus on rare disease nephrology. This role plays a critical part in shaping and executing medical strategy, ensuring a patient-centric and science-driven approach across the portfolio. The position can be based in Breda (Netherlands) or Mechelen (Belgium) and reports directly to the Head of Medical Affairs Benelux.

Position Purpose:

• Under general direction, be responsible for the development and implementation of the Medical Affairs strategy and tactics in the designated therapy area.

• Provides medical expertise and input to the Business team of the designated therapeutic area to ensure targeted development of new products and optimal scientific positioning of existing products ensuring a comprehensive patient focus.

• Responsible for developing long-term relationships with External Experts (aka KOL) and Patients 0rganisations, and holder of KOL engagement plan.

• Identifies unmet medical needs and reinforces the patient focus of all medical activities.

Main Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

1. Strategy

• Under general direction, provide input from medical affairs perspective and contribute to strategic product plans for the country.

• Be a part of the Business Team to develop strategic medical, scientific and relationship management plans that align with business objectives

• Medical input into key cross-functional groups

• Responsible for medical activities required for this process.

2. Interaction with Medical and Scientific Community

• Builds relationships and demonstrates the clinical outcome and benefits of CSL products to External Experts.

• Provide a high-quality single point of contact for scientific interaction between External Experts / HCP’s and CSL.

• Respond to specific local requests for scientific and medical information in a comprehensive, timely and customer focused manner.

• Actively drives Scientific Advisory Board meetings to ensure knowledge transfer, foster External Expert relationships, ensure scientific understanding, and build appropriate advocacy.

• Actively participate in Scientific and Medical symposia. Assisting with development of CSL sponsored programs.

• Facilitate consideration of proposals for collaborative/ investigator-initiated studies.

• Facilitate site feasibility assessments

3. External Expert Development

• Under general direction, ensure development plans are initiated and actively managed for identified EE’s.

• Facilitate speaker development and involvement locally and internationally.

• Ensure appropriate EE development through participation in clinical trials.

• Ensure communications are tracked in appropriate systems to ensure CSL is compliant with good governance and transparency regulations.

4. Therapy Area Expertise

• Develop and maintain extensive knowledge of the designated therapeutic area(s), pipeline, and the competitive landscape.

• Be considered an expert by internal & external customers.

• Disseminate knowledge and share information as appropriate (within compliance regulations), including through internal and external presentations.

• Provide training and education of relevant stakeholders.

• Be a part of the review process for materials (as required).

• Provide input into the reimbursement dossier.

• Provision of information to reimbursement authorities and other relevant external government/regulatory bodies as and when requested to high professional standard.

5. Ensuring actions comply with:

• CSL’s Code of Responsible Business Practice

• CSL’s Global Quality Policy (W000037E)

• Pay full attention and act along local quality system processes and procedures

• Local and global medical affairs processes and procedures

• National Industry association Deontology Code

Job Qualifications and Experience Requirements:

• Education: University degree: Physician, Pharmacist, Master of Science in Biomedical Sciences

• Fluent in Dutch

• Prior Pharmaceutical or Biotech industry experience (medical, clinical or specialty products expertise) of at least 3 years.

• Ability to apply and leverage scientific and medical knowledge is essential

• Experience in therapy area is desirable

• Strong negotiation, influencing and leadership skills

• Excellent presentation, interpersonal and communication skills

• Demonstrated ability to manage relationships with external experts

• Demonstrated business planning ability and strong organisational skills

• Demonstrated innovative thinking

• Demonstrated working knowledge of regulations governing information provision/interactions with customers within the pharmaceutical industry. Strong medical governance capabilities.

• Strong strategic thinking capabilities

• Ability to work independently & be self-motivating

The role will require some offsite attendance at meetings, conferences, exhibitions, which includes international travel. This position description provides a summary of key features of the role. It may be varied as necessary by the Company from time to time.