Job Description
Job Description
Medical Science Liaison, Ophthalmology - South Central
US-TX-Dallas
Job ID: 2025-1891
# of Openings: 1
Category: Medical Science Liaison
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Overview The Medical Science Liaison (MSL) reports to the 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.
Responsibilities - Manage key opinion leader (KOL) optometrists and ophthalmologists in a designated region, ensuring compliant conduct per PhRMA and company 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.
- Participate in compliant and collaborative engagements with cross-functional team members including training and KOL meetings.
- Provide clinical trial support as needed and determine by the clinical development team.
- Manage territory budget, metrics, KOL mapping and CRM entries.
Qualifications - Doctorate of optometry, or MD, PharmD, PhD with eye care expertise required.
- 3+ 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.
- Ability to navigate systems and processes including Microsoft Office and customer relationship management software, work independently, and be self-motivated.
- Ability to collect actionable insights and critically analyze data.
- Ability to influence and collaborate with peers.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills to convey technical and clinical information.
Important Details:
- Territory includes: TX, LA
The position will be field based with candidates ideally located in: Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, Houston, New Orleans - The position is field based and requires travel 60-80% of the time.
- The candidates must live in their assigned territory, preference will be given to candidates who reside within 45 minutes of a major airport / major metropolitan area.
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