Opthalmology Medical Science Liaison

**Description**

Syneos Health is the only fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization purpose-built to accelerate customer success. We lead with a product development mindset, seamlessly connecting our capabilities to add high-value insights to speed therapies to patients and provide practical value to help our customers achieve their objectives.

Our Clinical Development model brings the customer and the patient to the center of everything that we do. We are continuously looking for ways to simplify and streamline our work to not only make Syneos Health easier to work with, but to make us easier to work for.

Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you’ll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals. We are agile and driven to accelerate the delivery of therapies, because we are passionate to change lives.

Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know:
**WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE**

**Why Syneos Health**
- We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
- We are committed to our Total Self culture - where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people.
- We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives - we’re able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.

**Role Overview**:
The MSL will establish, cultivate, and maintain scientific relationships with investigators and study coordinators to support patient enrollment while developing a strong understanding of clinical practice as it relates to Ophthalmology and Wet AMD. This position interacts with various internal and external stakeholders, with focus on institutions and their alliance partners (if applicable), study coordinators, pharmacists, clinical research associates and investigators. This role will initially focus on clinical trials and study site engagement but may later have the opportunity to transition into a traditional MSL role.

**Role Responsibilities**:

- Establishes and maintains strong working relationships with Principal Investigators (PIs), Study Coordinators and clinical trial sites to support the enrollment and conduct of Opthea clinical studies.
- Works with sponsor and CRO Clinical Development and Clinical Operations leads and trial sites to understand and implement study protocols effectively.
- Follows up with sites post-SIV to ensure patient enrollment runs smoothly, identifies challenges, issues and barriers and reports back to sponsor and works with study teams and sites to develop solutions.
- Delivers medical / scientific education, as required, to trial sites and provides input to key internal stakeholders on training materials for clinical trials, therapeutic areas, and disease state as outlined by sponsor; suggest and support implementation of local outreach options.
- Gathers and shares ‘Best Practices’ and tactics for rapid patient enrollment among trial sites.
- Gathers data and information on leading indicators of site challenges/successes and feeds back to team.
- If required develops network and heat maps of HCPs/hospitals involved in study specific diagnosis and management of patients
- Communicates investigator/study coordinator inquiries requiring follow-up to designated contacts and collaborates with clinical teams prior to providing approved responses to site inquiries appropriately to ensure focused and balanced clinical and scientific information.

**Qualifications**

**Job Requirements**

**Qualifications**:

- RN, PharmD, PhD or MD with relevant clinical trial site experience
- Experience as an MSL or CRA or required.
- 2 years’ experience in Ophthalmology required; site experience preferred.
- Knowledge of Ophthalmology, clinical trial/research design, conduct, and understanding clinical study results
- Experience in clinical research, patient recruitment, or investigational site management
- Strong oral and written communication skills; Skilled at presenting scientific content.

**Get to know Syneos Health**

Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.

**Additional Information**:
Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion