Eli Lilly and Company Looking for Associate Director – Medical Science Liaisons at Toronto, Ontario, Canada Full Time

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

The MSL Associate Director is responsible for leading and managing the performance of a team of Medical Science Liaisons. The Associate Director provides National strategic leadership and appropriately leverages the MSL’s scientific and clinical expertise to ensure mutually agreeable interactions with scientific experts.

The Associate Director also capitalizes on collated and distilled field insights, identify unmet needs, and leads others to develop new content solutions. Will work broadly, and cross-functionally, to accomplish these goals; inclusive of leading field medical integration with integrated evidence generation and the therapeutic area (TA)/ brands omnichannel strategy

Responsibilities

• People Development
• Partner effectively with all internal medical, development, and commercial partners across therapeutic area
• Collaborate (proactively and reactively) with other MSL leadership across the enterprise
• Support medical affairs staffing at congresses and ensure clinical insights learned are communicated back into Lilly appropriately
• Partner within the Canadian MSL Organization (across therapeutic areas and business units) and with the Global Medical Affairs Office (GMAO) to share best practices and lead process optimization to create operational efficiencies, which drive effectiveness
• Develop and implement regional field medical strategies aligned with both business unit and medical affairs strategies in partnership with cross-functional colleagues, including Medical Advisors/Directors and other functions responsible for global content creation
• Be accountable for capturing the impact and outcome of field medical “insights to action”.
• Oversee quality, compliance, accountability, and effectiveness of team
• Ensure alignment with all applicable policies, laws, regulations, and guidelines
• Identify and lead process improvement initiatives
• Ensure appropriate documentation processes are employed
• Analyze all data on MSL activities to improve MSL performance
• Responsible for reporting the impact / execution of MSL scientific strategy
• Lead workshops that improve MSL interpersonal and scientific communication skills
• Manage and monitor all team finance and HR-related issues appropriately

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in health sciences (PharmD, M.D., Ph.D. in a medically related field) preferred with 2-3 years of relevant clinical or therapeutic area experience desired. Masters or Bachelors level degree in health sciences (RN, RPh, PA, Certified Diabetes Educator, NP, etc.) considered if 5 or more years clinical and/or medical affairs experience in relevant therapeutic area is present.
• Five or more years experience in pharmaceutical industry required
• Familiarity/experience with regulated environments and compliance oversight is required
• Demonstrated ability to partner, influence, and work successfully within and across BUs, functions, and across levels of leadership.
• Demonstrated broad strategic thinking and execution excellence. Experience in setting scientific strategy for field based organization.
• Demonstrated success with managing and developing people, preferably field based employees.
• Strong business acumen. Working knowledge of Lilly enterprise and systems.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced environment and ability to incorporate new learning into real time solutions (agile, adaptable, results orientated)
• French/English (asset)

Additional Information

All new employees are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of being hired by Lilly as described in the attached Covid-19 Vaccination Policy. The requirement to be vaccinated is inclusive of any approved boosters, should they be deemed necessary in the future. Deadlines for boosters will be communicated through an updated policy as needed.

This position is field-based with the specific location determined according to business need.

The position is based from a home office, with National coverage whereby the largest teams of MSLs are in Ontario & Quebec.

Associate Directors work on a regular basis in the field accompanying their Medical Liaisons on field visits and attending scientific congresses.

Anticipated travel requirements are 50-70% or higher, depending on specific needs of the therapeutic area, and include overnight travel commitments as well as potential periodic weekend commitments.

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