Medical Scientific Liaison Oncology (m/f/d) - West Switzerland
Publication date:
09 May 2025Workload:
100%Contract type:
Unlimited employment- Place of work:Field Worker
Posted Date: May 9 2025
GSK has bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031, we aim to deliver £38 billion in annual sales – building from existing strong performance momentum which will significantly increase the positive impact we can have on the health of billions of patients around the world. Our Ahead Together strategy means intervening early to prevent and change the course of disease, helping to protect people and support healthcare systems.
Our portfolio is made up of vaccines, specialty medicines and general medicines. These are the three different types of products we create to prevent and treat disease, many with the potential to be first-or best-in-class.
Medical Science Liaison Oncology (m/f/d)
The Medical Science Liaison (MSL) Oncology is a pivotal field-based role that serves as a bridge between the company and the healthcare community. This non-promotional, customer-facing position in the French- and Italian-speaking part of Switzerland focuses on advancing clinical practice within an assigned territory to improve patient outcomes. The MSL brings deep clinical and therapeutic expertise and landscape knowledge to engage with Healthcare Providers (HCPs), in alignment with GSK's strategic medical plans.
Key objectives of the MSL include engaging with various community and academic opinion leaders facilitating scientific exchange and serving as a medical resource. These scientific interactions aim to ensure that patients have access to GSK medicines, ensure safe an appropriate use of GSK medicines, close gaps in unmet medical needs, and align with our medical strategies and the needs of the HCPs they engage.
The MSL role is crucial for identifying disease and product-related medical needs, ensuring the exchange of scientific knowledge, capturing and communicating medical insights, and facilitating research to advance clinical practice.
Region: West Switzerland
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain in-depth scientific knowledge of gynecological oncology therapeutic area, treatment options, guidelines and relevant research.
- Establish and foster strong professional relationships with key external experts (EEs), healthcare professionals (HCPs), and other stakeholders in the Gyn-oncology field in the French/Italian-speaking regions of Switzerland.
- Engage with HCPs on emerging data, clinical trials, medical unmet needs, educational gaps, patient barriers to access and identify opportunities for collaboration on education and research.
- Identify, consolidate and internally communicate key insights and subsequently contribute to the translation of these insights into executable and innovative medical plans
- Drive and be accountable for the execution of medical strategy and (omnichannel) communication plan in assigned region.
- Keep close relationships and build partnerships with key patient organizations, advocacy groups, and scientific societies in Switzerland.
- Lead the development and execution of medical aspects in crossfunctional strategic regional account planning.
- Support the management of medical materials, ensuring compliance with Swiss regulations and GSK standards.
- Address unsolicited medical inquiries from HCPs, providing accurate, balanced, and timely information based on scientific evidence.
- Provide scientific education and training to the commercial field force and other medical functions.
- Ensure adherence to all regulatory, legal, and ethical guidelines in all interactions and communications, meeting compliance requirements for GSK SOPs, guidelines, and Swiss laws.
- Execute administrative responsibilities, training, and documentation requirements in a timely manner.
Why you?
Basic qualifications:
- Degree in life sciences: MSc or equivalent, MD, PhD, PharmD and/or other professional healthcare provision qualification with experience
- Pharmaceutical industry experience in a role successfully engaging in scientific exchange with external experts.
- Solid grounding in clinical, medical and pharmaceutical science with the ability to rapidly assimilate specific and detailed knowledge in these areas.
- Experience in evaluating and effectively communicating evidence-based medicine.
- Excellent communication with high level French and English is a must, Italian and German language skills are a plus
- Ability to prioritise and manage multiple projects in a dynamic environment
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Why GSK?
Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).
Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.
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