# Medical Science Liaison  (Respiratory) - Grand Rapids, MI

**Company**: Regional Liaison Director
**Location**: Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States of America
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Medical
**Industry**: Healthcare

**Apply**: https://astrazeneca.eightfold.ai/careers/job/563877689883877
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## Description

At AstraZeneca, we put patients first and strive to meet their unmet needs worldwide. We are a global biopharmaceutical company with a diverse portfolio of prescription medicines and vaccines for diseases across various therapeutic areas, including respiratory.

We are seeking a Medical Science Liaison (Respiratory) to join our team in Grand Rapids, MI. As a Medical Science Liaison, you will be responsible for providing medical and scientific support for AstraZeneca's marketed products, focused on COPD, with new indications and compounds in development.

Key Responsibilities:

- Develop relationships and engage in scientific exchange with medical and scientific partners, including Healthcare Professionals, Quality Assurance Managers, and Population Health Experts to improve medical care for patients with COPD.

- Partner with key internal stakeholders including Medical, Sales, and Marketing.

- Identify pre-clinical, clinical and post-marketing study investigators in alignment with Medical Affairs objectives; and provide impactful information that enhances the value and proper use of AZ products to internal partners.

- Respond to customer inquiries to provide focused and balanced clinical and scientific information that supports the appropriate use of or clinically differentiates AstraZeneca's products and services.

Requirements:

- 0-1 years' experience as a Medical Science Liaison in the pharmaceutical industry

- Advanced Clinical/Science Degree required (e.g., MD, PharmD, PhD, MSN, NP, PA, etc.)

- Knowledge of Health Systems, customer segments and market dynamics

- Demonstrated expertise in discussing scientific content and context to multiple audiences

- Experience initiating Transforming Care within Health Systems

- Excellent project management ability

- Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills

- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite

- Thorough knowledge of regulatory environment

- Experience in the pharmaceutical industry

- Strong leadership capabilities

- Must reside in territory

- Ability to travel (50-70%)

Desirable:

- 2+ years' experience as a Medical Science Liaison in the pharmaceutical industry

- Respiratory experience in pharmaceutical industry or clinical practice

- Established track record of basic or clinical research

- Proven expertise in the drug discovery and drug development process

- Previous experience working within Health Systems or Integrated Delivery Networks

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca, we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big. Delivering life-changing medicines is about being entrepreneurial - finding those moments and recognizing their potential. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organization to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering cutting edge methods and bringing unexpected teams together. Ready to make a difference? Apply today and join our mission to change lives!

## Skills

### Required
- Medical Science Liaison
- Pharmaceutical Industry
- Health Systems
- Customer Segments
- Market Dynamics
- Scientific Content
- Regulatory Environment
- Leadership
