Medical Science Liaison Germany

Job Band:  Job Band 9 (JB9) 
Hiring Manager:  Hugo Fabre 
Lead Recruiter:  Paulina Piotrowska 
State:  Bayern (DE-BY) 
Country:  Germany 

Our ability to grow, develop new capabilities and serve even more patients around the world depends on associates like you, who are passionate about our mission. Thank you for considering this new opportunity to further unlock your potential.

JOB SUMMARY
Acting as medical and scientific expert engaged in driving key initiatives in research, publications, medical education, and field intelligence between Terumo BCT and the academic medical community, the MSL will be a recognized resource to engage in identifying unmet medical needs in therapeutic plasma exchange, red blood cell exchange, extracorporeal therapies, and general apheresis topics across Germany and the DACH region. The MSL will engage in literature and data analysis to address clinical and scientific questions in reference to Terumo BCT's business. The MSL will act both internally and externally, being capable of developing programs with thought leaders and prescribers in nephrology, neurology, hematology, and intensive care, identifying gaps in medical research and assisting the TBCT organization in defining business directions and new therapeutic areas. They may be called on to support, participate and/or drive special projects, such as study monitoring, internal and external education, publication planning and execution, and identifying gaps for both company-sponsored and investigator research in clinical presentations, medical congresses, and training programs for internal and external stakeholders. The role is instrumental in establishing Terumo BCT's medical affairs presence in Germany and making the territory evaluation-ready for centrifugal therapeutic plasma exchange and adsorption column technologies.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES
•    Develops and maintains professional scientific relationships in areas critical to Terumo BCT with thought leaders in key academic medical centers, university hospitals, and blood establishments across Germany, with particular focus on nephrology, neurology, intensive care, and transfusion medicine.
•    Serves as a primary Medical Affairs contact involved with clinical and scientific information exchanges with German healthcare professionals. These exchanges may be verbal, written, or electronic inquiries.
•    Delivers education on therapeutic plasma exchange to clinical sites, including journal clubs, in-service sessions, procedure walkthroughs, and methods notes covering membrane vs centrifugal TPE.
•    Conducts site evaluation-readiness assessments for centrifugal TPE and adsorption column technologies, supporting clinical teams with procedure parameters, anticoagulation management, replacement fluid protocols, and patient monitoring.
•    Organizes and delivers vascular access education, including ultrasound-guided cannulation workshops and performance tracking initiatives.
•    Monitors ongoing clinical studies at German sites with neutral visibility, providing periodic status briefs to internal stakeholders without trial conduct intervention.
•    Engages with intensive care teams through secondary plasma device and adsorption column touchpoints, creating pathways for broader therapeutic apheresis education.
•    Maps and engages priority KOLs across clinical and nursing profiles; organizes advisory sessions, peer-to-peer meetings, and case reviews.
•    Supports centers with rising needs in red blood cell exchange and therapeutic erythrocyte apheresis, contributing to workflow alignment and clinical education.
•    Identifies opportunities and conducts formal presentations to essential groups as requested by medical and technical healthcare professionals, including key accounts and hospital therapeutic committee members, in accordance with company policies, applicable laws, regulatory guidelines, and ethical standards.
•    Maintains expert knowledge and understanding of clinical, scientific, and technical information in therapeutic apheresis and extracorporeal therapies through continuously reviewing literature in the field and attending conferences and networking with experts.
•    Works with the commercialization team and global product marketing, providing input as needed on product innovation and unmet medical needs in the German market.
•    Responds to customer complaints from a medical/scientific perspective and resolution, through data mining, in close collaboration with field specialists and quality department.
•    Actively participates in developing tools and resources for the medical affairs team to encourage consistency, transparency, and appropriate communication for both internal and external partnerships.
•    Attends and provides coverage at national and international medical education venues (congresses, conferences, symposia) and brings back field intelligence and insights to key internal stakeholders for accurate planning.
•    Works with customers to help them with data abstraction and publication of clinical, scientific, or operational data related to Terumo BCT products.
•    Provides medical, scientific, and technical review and opinion as requested internally.
•    Responds to and tracks medical information requests from healthcare professionals and decision makers with accurate, unbiased, balanced, and timely answers.
•    May lead and/or coordinate special projects related to building scientific and medical competencies within the organization, such as: internal training of sales and marketing, scientific symposium programs, presentation and slide kit development, advisory board development, speaker development and training, journal clubs, one-pagers, white papers, webinars, and literature searches.
•    Supports co-promotion activities in the DACH region in close coordination with Legal and Medical Affairs, where applicable.
•    Leverages AI-powered tools and digital platforms to accelerate evidence synthesis, literature screening, content development, and medical information management. Stays current with emerging AI and digital tools relevant to medical affairs workflows.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
Education
Advanced degree: Medical Doctor (MD) strongly preferred. PhD or Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) in a relevant clinical discipline (nephrology, neurology, hematology, immunology, intensive care medicine) will be considered. An equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential functions of the job may be considered.
Experience
Minimum 3 years of experience in a Medical Affairs, MSL, clinical research, or equivalent scientific role, ideally within medical devices, transfusion medicine, nephrology, or critical care.
Core Competencies
•    Requires high technical competence, strong interpersonal skills, analytical skills, and clinical experience to achieve the above working relationships and responsibilities.
•    Strong clinical understanding of therapeutic apheresis indications, particularly TPE in nephrology, neurology, and critical care settings.
•    Didactic skills: ability to educate clinicians and nursing staff on TPE procedure parameters, vascular access, anticoagulation management, and patient monitoring.
•    Must be a strong independent contributor with entrepreneurial mindset, capable of building a medical affairs presence in a new territory while staying within strategic imperatives of the team.
•    Must have excellent organizational skills; be self-directed and work independently and capable of managing multiple projects simultaneously.
•    Have the ability to understand, interpret, and communicate complex scientific or medical information and data.
•    Able to independently design and execute statistical analyses on clinical and operational datasets, including descriptive statistics, comparative analyses, and data visualisation, to generate actionable insights for evidence generation, publication support, and internal decision-making.
•    Demonstrate excellent written/oral communication and presentation skills in both German and English; be effective when conversing with key opinion leaders, healthcare professionals, internal colleagues, and patients.
•    Have the ability to deliver formal responses to healthcare professionals' specific medical questions through analysis of the literature in order to assure accurate, timely, unbiased, fair-balanced, and up-to-date medical and scientific information, while keeping within legal and regulatory guidelines.
•    Experience with laboratory and clinical methods in hematology/blood banking/transfusion medicine is an asset.
•    Familiarity with AI-powered research tools and digital platforms for literature analysis, evidence synthesis, and medical information management.
•    Knowledge and use of relevant PC software applications and skills to use them effectively.
•    Ability to work in a matrix structure, maintaining strong working relationships with various departments such as Scientific & Clinical Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, Legal, Global & Regional Marketing, and Sales.
•    Knowledge of regulatory requirements, compliance standards, and ethical obligations.
•    Experience or familiarity with clinical trial monitoring and neutral study tracking.
•    Proven ability to establish working relationships with all levels of clinical/technical/marketing people in corporate, clinical, and academic settings.
•    Exceptional command of spoken and written English and German, with the ability to deliver clear, fluent, and confident scientific presentations to international audiences. Additional European languages are a plus.
•    Strong overall communication skills and interpersonal savvy.
•    Demonstrated ability to be diplomatic; able to work with a highly focused multi-disciplinary team.

PROFILE
•    Dynamic, extraverted personality
•    Entrepreneurial spirit, able to build medical affairs presence from the ground up
•    Independent and autonomous
•    Self-motivating
•    Perseverant
•    High level of ethics
•    Clinically oriented, comfortable in ICU, nephrology, and neurology settings
•    Curious about innovation, including AI and digital tools in medical affairs

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
Typical office environment requirements include: reading, speaking, hearing, close vision, walking, bending, sitting, and occasional lifting up to 20 pounds. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential duties of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
Additional Physical Requirements
The associate must be able to manage a demanding travel schedule (40–60% within Germany and DACH region, with occasional EMEA-wide travel).