Medical Scientific Liaison

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**For Current Gilead Employees and Contractors:
**Job Description**:**Gilead Sciences is a biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, and commercializes innovative therapeutics in areas of unmet medical need. The company's mission is to advance the care of patients suffering from life-threatening diseases worldwide. Headquartered in Foster City, California, Gilead has operations in North America, Europe, Asia and Brazil**

**Position: Medical Scientific Liaison (Medical Affairs - Oncology)**
**Sites: North Eastern**
**Grade 29**

**Overview**:
**This **field-based **Medical Scientific Liaison **will be part of a team reporting to the Medical Affairs Associate Director, Oncology. **This professional will disseminate clinical information about Gilead’s innovative products for cancer treatment to thought-leaders, academic institutions, healthcare professionals, and professional organizations.**

**Principle Roles and Responsibilities include, but are not limited to**:
**- **Deliver timely, accurate, and succinct clinical and scientific presentations to healthcare professionals both proactively and in response to requests for information, consistent with promotional compliance, PhRMA guidelines, and ANVISA regulatory requirements;**
**- **Implement defined goals and objectives aligned with the Medical Affairs Plan of Action and other strategic initiatives.**
**- **Develop plans for cultivating and maintaining working relationships with existing and future thought leaders in an assigned geographic territory.**
**- **Participate in advisory boards, symposia, and educational programs, such as speaker training sessions and clinical conferences when requested.**
**- **Collaborate with colleagues across other functional areas.**
**- **Support the development, deployment, and appropriate use of field tools and resources (e.g., slide decks);**
**- **Complete required administrative and training procedures in a timely fashion (expense reports, documentation of interactions);**
**- **Adhere to all applicable pharmaceutical codes and **Gilead policies;**
**- **Exhibit Gilead’s core values: integrity, teamwork, accountability, and excellence.**

**Competences**:
**1. **Scientific Knowledge**
**a. **Demonstrates a deep level of knowledge and understanding of the science behind the relevant disease state and its treatment**
**b. **Maintains a comprehensive awareness of and understanding about current “real world” clinical practices, HEOR drivers, and emerging trends in treatments**
**c. **Demonstrates the ability to compare Gilead’s products and pipeline relative to our competitors’ products and pipeline in compliance with local guidelines**
**d. **Demonstrates a clear understanding of Gilead’s clinical trials and Phase IV study design and how potential investigator-sponsored studies align with Gilead strategy**

**2. **Scientific Communication**
**a. **Conducts meaningful scientific exchange and communicates complex scientific information and data in an organized and efficient manner**
**b. **Responds to inquiries in an unbiased and timely fashion, and presents data in a scientifically rigorous, fair/balanced manner relative to Gilead and/or competitors’ products and pipeline always in compliance with business conduct policies**
**c. **Researches and understands the audience, define the objectives and tailors the exchange of scientific information based on the needs of the audience and the situation**
**d. **Applies effective listening, presentation, and facilitation skills to ensure optimal outcomes of all interactions/communications with both individuals and groups**
**e. **Presents oneself in a professional manner and applies sound judgment in both oral and written communication across all levels within Gilead and external organizations**

**3. **Healthcare Landscape Awareness**
**a. **Keeps current on emerging trends in the healthcare industry, health policies and medical practice, focusing on those factors that have the most significant impact on assigned accounts**
**b. **Understands the global, national, regional and account-specific implications around cost efficacy/value data and their impact on patients, providers and payers**
**c. **Demonstrates strong analytical skills; effectively synthesizes, analyzes, and communicates insights and recommendations derived from a broad range of interactions and information sources**
**d. **Uses knowledge of Gilead’s products, competitors’ products and the broader healthcare landscape to anticipate and address external stakeholders’ needs**

**4. **Strategic Relationship Building**
**a. **Continually and appropriately cultivates