Medical Science Liaison (MSL) Specialty and Respiratory

As a Medical Science Liaison (MSL) Specialty and Respiratory at GSK you will play a key role in fostering meaningful in-field scientific engagement with healthcare providers and external experts.

Utilising your in-depth knowledge of GSK data in the context of overall patient care, you will help ensure evidence-based understanding of the science behind GSK medicines and vaccines.

You will gather valuable insights on GSK products and services, and on medical and scientific information to better understand patient needs and evidence gaps. You will work with cross functional stakeholders to contribute to therapy area strategy and scientific knowledge of team members.

As an MSL you will act as the interface between the professional healthcare community and the internal GSK medical team and its affiliates to bring in value-added insights that inform GSK Medical, Commercial, and Research & Development activities.

This is a filed-based role with extensive travel nationally and occasional international travel.

We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued and included. We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme.

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In this role you will:

• Engage in one-to-one scientific dialogue with external experts around GSK’s medicines and vaccines in line with GSK Code of Practice and local laws and regulations. Act as an expert speaker at internal and external events in line with GSK Policy.
• Support GSK study teams by providing scientific expertise as required to investigators and staff engaged in GSK-supported clinical trials and Investigator-Sponsored Studies (ISS).
• Respond to unsolicited requests for Medical Information from healthcare providers in a fair, factual, balanced, and scientifically rigorous manner via the appropriate and preferred channel.
• Partner with matrix colleagues (e.g. sales, marketing, market access, etc.) to ensure strategies and business plans are both patient and business focused, and adding value to the external expert. Foster a collaborative working relationship with Medical Representatives and Commercial colleagues. Provide scientific education training for business partners such as the Medical Representatives by being the local scientific expert for a medicine / vaccine or group of medicines / vaccines in a therapy area.
• Disseminate important safety information to healthcare professionals as and when this emerges.
• Maintain a level of expertise in the evolving scientific / therapeutic area and in competitor medicines and vaccines. Attend scientific meetings and congresses to keep abreast of the evolving science in a therapy area and to confidently debate and discuss the science with external experts.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications & Skills:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Higher degree in life sciences: PhD, MSc or equivalent
• Other professional healthcare provision qualification with experience (e.g. nurse practitioner, physician, surgeon, physiotherapist or pharmacist)
• A significant amount of pharmaceutical industry experience in a role successfully engaging in scientific exchange with external experts.
• Strong understanding of Irish and European relevant legislation
• An understanding of clinical development, and statistical design and analysis.
• Solid grounding in clinical, medical and pharmaceutical science with the ability to rapidly assimilate specific and detailed knowledge in these areas.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

Please note the following skills are not necessary, just preferred, if you do not have them, please still apply:

• Effective communication skills and ability to tailor information to different audiences appropriately.
• Ability to translates complex science into simple messages.
• Ability to communicate through multiple channels e.g. webinars.
• Effective networking and collaboration skills to achieve business results.
• Strong business mindset and ability to balance cross-functional objectives.
• A sense of curiosity and a passion for continuous learning and development.

Closing Date for Applications – 31 July 2025 (COB)

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When applying for this role, please use the ‘cover letter’ of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.

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.

GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.

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