Medical Science Liaison - Rare Disease
About this opportunity
Career Category
Medical Services
Job Description
If you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. At Amgen our shared mission, to serve patients, drives all that we do. It is key to becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies. We are global collaborators who achieve together, researching, manufacturing, and delivering ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. It’s time for a career you can be proud of. Join us as:
Medical Science Liaison - Rare Disease
Our focus is to unlock the potential of science to address the unmet needs of people living with a life-threatening disease. We are committed to help where we think we can make the biggest impact. Rare disease is an area where we are currently active and are developing promising new therapeutic options for patients that we expect to launch in the near future.
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What you will do
As a Medical Science Liaison (MSL), you will play a pivotal role in applying all our scientific capabilities to make a positive impact on changing patients’ lives. This is a critical role for Amgen, as you will be the face of our company in our meaningful collaborations with health care professionals, patient associations and other partners. So, are you patient centric, science based, a strong collaborator and well connected in the world of rare diseases? Then this challenge might be the opportunity you've been waiting for!
You will:
Identify, develop and maintain collaborative relationships with current and future Scientific Experts, cooperative (study) groups and study sites.
Develop and implement local Scientific Experts engagement Plans, in line with local and international Scientific Expert strategy.
Represent Amgen Medical department.
Discuss scientific value messages, clinical outcome and patient benefits with Scientific Experts, hospital pharmacists, local payers and others in collaboration with your colleagues.
Provide and/or present field observations and insights to internal customers.
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What we expect of you
We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. We are looking for someone with this profile:
Advanced degree (e.g. PhD , MD, PharmD) preferred or strong demonstration of equivalent combination of relevant educational and professional training.
Proven experience in industry (neurology, endocrinology or ophthalmology) or a related scientific field in academia.
Passionate about networking and client facing contact.
Curious, continuous improvement, learning agility.
Science Based, analytic, data driven, outside-in thinking, strategic overview.
Confident, optimistic and persistent.
Results driven and set to achieve goals.
Patient centric and influential.
Agile, adaptive and flexible.
Fluency in English and in Dutch.
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What you can expect of us
As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, so we work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being.
Vast opportunities to learn and move up and across our global organization.
Diverse and inclusive community of belonging, where teammates are empowered to bring ideas to the table and act.
Generous Total Rewards Plan comprising competitive salary, bonus structure, fixed 13th month, holiday allowance and a collective health insurance.
Focus on vitality with an on-site gym and a restaurant with healthy food
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Job details
How this role compares
Computed from every other active Medical Affairs role in our database, not just this employer's listings.
We currently track 924 comparable Medical Affairs roles across 129 biopharma companies.
Salary context
175 of 924 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)
Peers share this role's job function. This posting doesn't list a seniority level, so peers aren't narrowed by seniority either -- the range below may span more levels than usual.
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Seniority mix
502 of 924 peers have a known seniority level
Therapeutic area mix
325 of 924 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden
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How we calculate "similar"
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0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.