Medical Scientist– Cell Therapy, Edinburgh
Client: Gilead Sciences
Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: 05de447623b0
Job Views: 18
Posted: 24.03.2025
Expiry Date: 08.05.2025
Job Description:
At Gilead, we’re creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years, we’ve tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer – working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the world’s biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference.
Every member of Gilead’s team plays a critical role in the discovery and development of life-changing scientific innovations. Our employees are our greatest asset as we work to achieve our bold ambitions, and we’re looking for the next wave of passionate and ambitious people ready to make a direct impact.
We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future, you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included, developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Gilead and help create possible, together.
Position Overview:
This opportunity is a full-time, field-based, medical affairs role working on chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) therapy across a defined geographical territory of referring and CART infusing treatment centres within the Kite business unit of Gilead UKI. You will be the critical, first point of medical contact between health care providers (HCPs) and the company. This role would ideally suit a medical/nursing/pharmacy/life science professional looking to establish themselves as a regional CART medical expert and educator.
The position will be a field-based Medical Scientist (MS) covering Scotland and North-East England as a territory, from a home office base in Scotland or North-East England. For both options, a home base close to the nearest regional airport (Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Newcastle) to facilitate regular travel to CART delivery centres and their allied referring hospitals plus visits to the London UK affiliate office in Holborn, London will be required.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Focus on providing expert medical education to NHS stakeholders in CART infusion centres and referring hospitals within their designated territory.
2. Collaborate extensively with the entire UK CART medical team and UK CART business unit members.
3. Work closely with the cellular therapy account manager (CTAM) and case manager (CM) for the territory to address specific account challenges.
4. Undertake extensive travel including appointments and meetings within territory, as well as regional, national, and international conferences and meetings.
Minimum Requirements:
The candidate must be a medical/nursing/pharmacy/life science professional holding an entry-level degree. The individual must have excellent scientific communication and presentation skills, ability to work well in a team, and willingness to take ownership/responsibility & deliver on multiple simultaneous projects. A full clean driving license is required, along with the ability to travel away from home on company business with occasional overnight national and international travel.
Preferred Role Requirements:
1. Previous industry experience working with CAR/TCR therapies or haemato-oncology is strongly preferred.
2. Previous industry Medical Scientific Liaison experience, ABPI exam sat and passed (if not will be a requirement to do so first year in role).
3. Post graduate degree qualifications are strongly preferred (e.g. MSc, PhD, MB, BS, MD).
4. The ability to develop new strategic relationships and an understanding of other cancer therapies.
5. An understanding of NICE health technology appraisal systems.
Gilead Core Values:
1. INTEGRITY – Doing What’s Right
2. INCLUSION – Encouraging Diversity
3. TEAMWORK – Working Together
4. ACCOUNTABILITY – Taking Personal Responsibility
This is an excellent opportunity to become a part of a rapidly growing and expanding field of medicine.
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