Job Description

The purpose of Idorsia is to discover, develop and bring more, innovative medicines to patients. We have more ideas; we see more opportunities and we want to help more patients. In order to achieve this, we will develop Idorsia into a leading biopharmaceutical company, with a strong scientific core.

Headquartered near Basel, Switzerland, the US Commercial Operations & Clinical Development teams are based near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Idorsia is committed to meet the changing needs of healthcare professionals, patients, and their families. The core of what we do is to bring creative solutions to the market based on our science and data.

Idorsia offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes fully paid health care, dental and vision coverage, group life insurance, disability benefits, Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Fitness Reimbursement. We offer driver benefits to our field employees that drive on our behalf. We offer a 401(k) savings plan with immediate vesting, generous employer match and both traditional and Roth options. In addition, you may select voluntary benefits, including additional life insurance and legal services/ID theft protection, that best meet you/your family’s needs. Generous education reimbursement program and flexible summer hours are available.

The Medical Affairs Liaison (MSL) will be accountable to engage health care providers in high quality scientific exchange regarding the science and clinical application for specified products within our portfolio. The individual in this role delivers support to clinical development colleagues and investigators conducting clinical trials and offers scientific support to internal stakeholders. MSL’s are expected to interact with and provide value to and across a continuum of both internal (R&D, Sales, and Marketing) and external stakeholders demonstrating leadership capabilities and following internal compliance guidelines. The MSL will be a credible, valuable representative of Idorsia Pharmaceuticals in a variety of interactions with KOL’s across their assigned region.

Assigned region will be focused on hypertension centers in the western portion of the US. The ideal candidate will live near an international airport within this region, preferably California, however will consider candidates of all locations.

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Develop relationships with health care professionals and provide them with credible, fair and balanced scientific information about Idorsia and its products, research activities, and Idorsia product development while understanding their perspectives, including challenges when treating patients. Develops insights from one’s own HCP/KOLs.
• Liaise with key internal stakeholders to build and execute comprehensive, dynamic territory planning with respect to the molecule, molecule life cycle and therapeutic area and territory.
• Act as a therapeutic area and product expert as evidenced by regular review of relevant literature, participation in scientific congresses and conferences, and internal therapeutic area training, and to develop competitive intelligence on other products in the therapeutic area.
• Knowledge sharing, including KOL and site profiling, and education both internally and externally will be a key area of responsibility.
• Assist the medical affairs team in the identification of potential investigators and research projects. This may include assistance with investigator sponsored trial process, sponsored study site identification, recruitment strategies, and collaboration with clinical operations.
• Reporting on observations, insights, and voice of customer obtained through interactions with HCPs and clinical/scientific activity within territory.
• Responding to unsolicited scientific inquiries from HCPs integrating the scientific data and utilizing approved materials and resources to fully address the HCP’s needs
• Building strong collaborative and strategic partnerships with their field coalitions

Qualifications:

• Doctorate level scientific degree OR Master’s level PA or NP degree
• 2 year’s experience as a Medical Science Liaison OR clinical experience in cardiology (preferably hypertension) or nephrology.
• Must hold a valid US driver’s license (driving record verification completed during onboarding)

Physical Requirements:

• Driving as part of the standard job requirements to satisfy external stakeholder engagement. This position requires extensive travel; the average travel for this position is up to 50-70% with some variation based upon the demands of the business imperatives. 
• This role will require flexibility in hours worked based on the need to travel and engage in job related activity. This requirement can be inconsistent and based on the needs of the role and our business.
• Occasionally required to: reach, stand, push, pull, lift, grasp and feel.
• Frequently required to: perform repetitive motions (typing), talk, and hear. Typically required to perform light work, including occasionally lifting to 10 pounds. Required to perform work requiring close visual acuity, including frequent reading of detailed documents.
• This position requires extensive face-to-face customer interaction and as such requires current vaccination status. 

At Idorsia, we harness the power of difference, authenticity and inclusion to achieve business success. We are committed to fostering respect, fairness and equal opportunities for all job applicants and all our employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability.

Please be informed that if you are selected for this position, your employment will be subject to a pre-employment background screening process, of which you will be informed in greater detail in due course.

Idorsia operates a strictly controlled list of preferred recruitment partners. For those partners who have no valid, signed Master Service Agreement in place with Idorsia, please note that all unsolicited resumes, CVs, anonymous profiles, or any other candidate details submitted through our website or to personal e-mail accounts of employees of Idorsia Pharmaceuticals (including any of its subsidiaries, affiliates or related companies) are considered the property of Idorsia Pharmaceuticals and are not subject to payment of any form of introduction, placement or referral fees.

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