Senior Medical Science Liaison

Cytokinetics is a specialty cardiovascular biopharmaceutical company, building on its over 25 years of pioneering scientific innovations in muscle biology, and advancing a pipeline of potential new medicines for patients suffering from diseases of cardiac muscle dysfunction. At Cytokinetics, each team member plays an integral part in advancing our mission to improve the lives of patients. We are seeking tenacious, compassionate, and collaborative individuals who are driven to make a positive impact.

Reporting to the Senior Medical Director for the UK, Ireland and Nordics, the Senior Medical Science Liaison (Snr MSL) is a scientific professional who serves as a key field-based scientific resource for healthcare providers, patients, industry partners and internal colleagues. This role will come with high visibility in our company including critical cross-functional relationships across Medical Affairs, Clinical Development / Operations, and Commercial. This role will focus on key opinion leaders and other HCPs in the hypertrophic cardiomyopathy therapeutic area, but also support pipeline products in development.

Our passion is anchored in rigorous and diligent scientific and clinical approaches to the discovery and development of novel mechanism therapeutics. With gratitude for the commitments and convictions of our employees who are inspired by the courage of patients we aim to serve, we believe Cytokinetics will continue to be a pioneering, values-driven, sustainable, fully integrated biopharmaceutical company.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Identify national, regional, and local Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) involved in the provision of cardiovascular care within institutional care centres and engage them in proactive and reactive scientific exchange.
• Maintain and broaden professional relationships with HCPs (Physicians, Specialist Nurses, Echocardiologists, Genetic Counsellors, Pharmacists and other relevant members of the multi-disciplinary team) in institutional care centers, to expand research, advisory, and educational partnership opportunities; identify areas of unmet medical need; and assure thoughtful exchange of current medical information related to products in development and therapeutic areas of importance.
• Serve as a scientific expert at key medical and scientific conferences, advisory boards, clinical investigator meetings, internal meetings, and patient advocacy group meetings.
• Maintain a high-level of scientific knowledge and understanding about disease state, underlying science, treatment guidelines, available treatment agents and options, as well as other relevant therapies under development.
• Maintain a superior understanding of current trends in clinical research, competitive developments, patient care, and their impact on Cytokinetics’ medical strategies.
• Work with Medical Affairs and other internal colleagues on initiatives including medical information, publications, medical education, grants, speaker training, and other educational programs.
• Provide support to our clinical development programs by serving as a key point of contact for company-sponsored trial investigators, investigator-initiated research, and registries consistent with company objectives and regulations.
• Generate Field Medical Affairs plans to identify collaborative opportunities with KOLs and institutions, review scientific program of relevant conferences, attend sessions, support exhibit booth operations, and contribute to a timely written conference report summarising key information, activities, and competitive intelligence to colleagues.
• Accurate and timely documentation of activities within applicable company databases and platforms.
• Mentor, train and support other Medical Scientists.
• Provide scientific training on key relevant data to Key Account Managers and other business colleagues as required.
• Provide strategic input and execute region-specific plans to achieve KOL engagement goals and Medical Affairs departmental goals.
• Pursue projects independently with a high degree of quality and timely execution.
• Contribute to / lead Congress Planning activities.
• Maintain a complete awareness of and understanding about current “real world” clinical practices, HEOR drivers, and emerging trends in treatments/medicine.
• Establish relationships with key executive leadership colleagues across Cytokinetics and connect external parties with appropriate leadership team members.

Qualifications, Knowledge and Skills Required:

• Advanced clinical or scientific degree (BSc, MSc, BPharm, MPharm, PhD, BM BS or equivalent) preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of MSL experience for Snr. MSL. Cardiovascular therapy area experience is strongly preferred, with direct experience in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy considered a significant advantage. Experience in heart failure is beneficial. The ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities across field, internal, and congress activities is essential.
• Must communicate with clarity and precision; able to distil complex scientific data into concise, high-impact exchanges with busy clinicians. Comfortable operating in time-constrained clinical environments where brevity is valued as much as depth. Possesses excellent analytical and presentation skills with a demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with external stakeholders and all internal levels of the organisation.
• Thrives in a collaborative, non-hierarchical team environment; equally comfortable contributing ideas and executing as a core team member. A genuine team player who recognises shared success as the measure of performance.
• Brings authentic enthusiasm for novel mechanisms of action and first-in-class therapies; able to translate scientific excitement into compelling scientific exchange with HCPs and internal stakeholders.
• Must possess knowledge of the Medical Science Liaison roles and responsibilities and understand compliance within the ABPI Code Standards for Interactions with UK Healthcare Providers and all other company policies, rules and regulations.
• Comply with all credentialing requirements for any healthcare institution which is part of the Medical Science plan, including, among other things, routine background checks, medical testing or proof of immunisations, training on facility policies, and adherence to confidentiality and/or other agreements.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and web-based applications.
• A valid Driver’s License and good driving record are required.
• Ability to travel both domestically (~30%-50%) and internationally on occasion (TBD).

Our employees come from different backgrounds, and we celebrate those differences. We are looking for the best candidates for our open roles, but do not expect applicants to meet every qualification in order to be considered. If you are excited about what you could accomplish at Cytokinetics and believe you can add value to our team, we would love to hear from you.

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Our passion is anchored in robust scientific thinking, grounded in integrity and critical thinking. We keep the patient front and center in all we do – all actions and decisions are in service of the patient and their caregivers. We champion integrity, ethics, doing the right thing, and being our best selves.