MSL Gastroenterology Region West

Job Summary

The Medical Science Liaison serves to advance science and standards of care for patients, healthcare providers, and payers and ensure they can access all the practical and clinically relevant information and solutions they need to use Abb Vie products efficiently and safely. The field‑based MSL focuses on medical and scientific engagement with Abb Vie stakeholders in French‑speaking Switzerland (including research and healthcare professionals, payers, and providers).

• Provide information to customers and facilitate dialogue about Abb Vie’s marketed products and compounds in development in a strictly scientific, non‑promotional manner and in full compliance with applicable national laws, regulations, guidelines, codes of conduct, Abb Vie policies and procedures, and accepted standards of best practice.
• Enhance the scientific credibility of the Company with established and emerging national and regional thought leaders by supporting scientific dialogue and collaborations in areas such as research, medical, and scientific exchange, including facilitation of requests for scientific and medical information.
• Interface with other key members of the affiliate medical department and work collaboratively and cross‑functionally with other in‑field team members while retaining functional independence.
• Maintain a high level of scientific knowledge to ensure credible dissemination of scientific information and informed scientific dialogue with thought leaders, healthcare providers, and payers.
• Provide scientific and technical input to local Abb Vie Brand teams and external thought leaders using information that has been reviewed and approved by relevant local procedures and under the direction, governance, and oversight of the MSL’s manager, therapeutic area Medical Manager, or Affiliate Medical Director as appropriate. This includes working with local Medical Information teams as appropriate to respond to unsolicited requests for off‑label information on Abb Vie medicines.
• Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with thought leaders in gastroenterology to facilitate Abb Vie research and educational priorities and strategic initiatives.
• Ensure a strong medical and scientific presence for Abb Vie in key academic centers by facilitating research and educational initiatives while supporting requests for medical and scientific information on products or areas of therapeutic interest to Abb Vie.
• Support internal teams such as sales and marketing and members of the Affiliate Brand Team to develop their scientific and technical expertise through the delivery of scientific update presentations.
• Assist in the initiation, oversight, and follow‑up of assigned clinical studies and medical projects initiated within the therapeutic area for which the MSL carries responsibility (e.g., post‑marketing clinical activities such as registry/database projects, epidemiological surveys, post‑authorization studies (Phase IV)). All such activities must comply with applicable local laws, guidelines, codes of practice, SOPs, and Abb Vie R&D (GPRD) SOPs.
• Act as the point of contact with thought leaders to facilitate investigator‑initiated study (IIS) ideas and requests for support to the local and global medical teams as appropriate.
• Serve as a point of contact within the Medical Affairs team for thought leaders and external experts within western Switzerland to satisfy their needs for scientific knowledge in a therapeutic area and, when requested, provide relevant Abb Vie medicines to support their safe, effective, and appropriate use.
• Deliver credible presentations on scientific matters to physicians individually or in groups (meetings, clinical sessions, etc.) where requested.
• Participate in the selection process to identify appropriately qualified thought leaders the Company would wish to engage in collaborative efforts such as potential research collaborations or educational and advisory roles (Advisory Boards, congresses, symposia, etc.) while ensuring a high level of scientific or educational integrity in these collaborative efforts.
• Facilitate medical and scientific field intelligence for example…