Associate Director, Medical Science Liaison – Women’s Health, US

Viatris Specialty LLC Viatris is a global healthcare company uniquely positioned to bridge the traditional divide between generics and brands, combining the best of both to more holistically address healthcare needs globally. With a mission to empower people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life, we provide access at scale, currently supplying high-quality medicines to approximately 1 billion patients around the world annually and touching all of life's moments, from birth to the end of life, acute conditions to chronic diseases. We have been included on number of award lists that demonstrate the impact we are making. This posting supports ongoing hiring needs and may be used to consider candidates for upcoming opportunities. Every day, we rise to the challenge to make a difference and here’s how the Associate Director, Medical Science Liaison – Women’s Health, US will make an impact: Medical Affairs Colleagues across Viatris are a source for credible, unbiased, and scientifically accurate clinical, Healthcare Economic Information (HCEI), and Medical Information about Viatris assets, medicines, and related disease states. Medical Affairs Colleagues engage with a variety of external parties, including Healthcare Providers (HCPs), the Healthcare Community, independent third-party organizations, patients, payers, regulatory authorities, and policy makers. Medical Affairs engage in non-promotional, truthful, and non-misleading ways to inform all parties on safe and effective use of Viatris medicines. Medical Affairs Colleagues must remain independent and under no circumstances be influenced by commercial colleagues in order to maintain Medical Affairs’ credibility as an independent and credible source of Medical Information. US Medical Affairs’ five primary responsibilities: Strategy & Insight Generation, Organizational Support, Stakeholder Engagement, Evidence Generation & Dissemination, Personal & Professional Development. US Field-based Medical Affairs Colleagues, known as Medical Science Liaisons (MSLs), engage in external, non-promotional customer-facing activities and may work in assigned geographic areas. MSLs have specialized experience and training that allows them to discuss scientific issues regarding Viatris medicines as an extension of the Medical Affairs team in the field. MSLs present objective, evidence-based, fair-balanced, truthful, and non-misleading information. US MSLs perform job functions in accordance with all applicable Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), federal and state laws, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) guidelines, health authority regulations, and departmental processes.  Key responsibilities for this role include: 100% compliant with all Company policies & procedures Learning & Growth (eg, Improve skills & abilities, Develop medical expertise, Develop strategic leadership) Operational Excellence (eg, Improve operational efficiency, Improve operational effectiveness, Align medical activities with overarching company strategy) KOL Relationship Management (eg, Understand KOL medical education needs, Understand competitor medical affairs educational offerings, Align KOL selection with overarching company strategy) Innovation (eg, Understand medical innovation, Uniquely meet HCP innovation-based education needs, Increase use of innovative education materials) Engage in non-promotional, truthful, evidenced-based, and non-misleading communications with KOLs/HCPs using educational materials approved by the Medical Review Committee (MRC) Draft, execute, monitor & adapt independent US MSL Stakeholder Engagement Plans for target KOLs/HCPs on an ongoing basis in alignment with the US Women’s Health MSL Team Lead and US Women’s Health Medical Lead Receive support & direction for all normal asset-/disease state-level MSL business activities including all business travel, HCP interactions and congress attendance from US Women’s Health MSL Team Lead Provide a summary of day-to-day activities & achievements on a monthly written basis to US Women’s Health MSL Team Lead Submit expense reports and PTO/vacation requests in a timely manner Document HCP Interactions in VEEVA Respond with Reactive Medical Communications to Unsolicited Medical Requests (UMRs) received from HCPs or other external stakeholders Identify & communicate internally the activities of rival Medical Affairs organizations with our target KOLs/HCPs Identify & communicate internally the unmet medical education needs of our target KOLs/HCPs; share difficult concepts and negotiate with colleagues to adopt a different point of view Partner with US Women’s Health MSL Team Lead and US Women’s Health Medical Lead to develop independent, new, innovative, nonpromotional, proactive and reactive medical education materials (eg, slide decks, videos) that differ from those provided by rival Medical Affairs organizations to uniquely address the unmet educational needs of our target KOLs/HCPs Gather & communicate internally KOL insights related to independent US Medical and/or overarching company objectives or strategies to inform the advancement of independent US Medical and/or overarching company strategy Develop & communicate internally independent Ad Board, Congress & Customer Insight Reports Staff independent Medical Affairs booths at congresses/convention Provide training to internal Viatris functions on products and disease states using materials approved by the MRC or the Viatris Promotional Material Approval Process (VMap) at the request of Commercial as appropriate Perform other duties assigned The minimum qualifications for this role are: Minimum of 5 years of experience in the pharmaceutical, biotech or clinical (e.g., hospital setting/patient care)  industry. Advanced degree (MD, PhD, PharmD) required. Experience in OB/GYN is required. However, a combination of experience and/or education will be taken into considerati