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Medical Science Liaison

Abbott

Abbott

Taipei City, Taiwan
Posted on Oct 30, 2025

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Our Established Pharmaceuticals are committed to bringing the benefits of our trusted medicines to more people in the world’s fastest-growing countries. Our broad portfolio of high-quality and differentiated branded generic medicines reaches across multiple therapeutic areas including gastroenterology, women's health, cardiometabolic, pain management/central nervous system, and respiratory.

As our Medical Science Liaison (MSL) Taiwan you will lead external scientific engagement, share medical insights and gather clinical perspectives from healthcare professionals. This hybrid field-and-office role also involves developing and executing medical plans to enhance patient outcomes. You’ll will be a medical subject matter expert working in collaboration with teams such as Commercial, Regulatory Affairs, Market Access, Business Development, and Quality Assurance. Additionally, you’ll coordinate internal medical training to support knowledge sharing across relevant functions.

Core Job Responsibilities:

Oversee medical aspect of brand team interactions:

  • Provides medical subject matter expertise to promotional material development and other commercial and marketing initiatives
  • Reviews material and projects to ensure scientific alignment and compliance with good promotional practice
  • Work in collaboration with Commercial team by providing medical subject matter expertise into the development of integrated brand plans
  • External KOLs engagement to gather insights, share scientific information via delivery of educational talks or in response to medical inquiries
  • Serves as a point of medical query answer provider on queries received from external key stakeholders (e.g. KOLs, doctors, allied healthcare professionals etc.) and internal stakeholders (e.g. other functions such as QA, RA, PV, Commercial team etc.)
  • Creates or modifies slide decks for external stakeholders to use for disease talks during local scientific meetings / discussion forums / formulary submissions
  • Provides training on therapeutic areas to internal stakeholders
  • Leads and facilitates scientific discussion between Abbott staff and external KOLs on Abbott related products and therapeutic areas
  • Assist in the initiation, oversight and follow up of assigned clinical studies and medical projects initiated within the therapeutic area for which the MSL carries responsibility

Support medical governance

  • Accountable for understanding compliance requirements, risk identification and assessment, mitigation planning as well as implementation and monitoring of appropriate internal controls

Support pharmacovigilance matters

  • Work with regional PV manager to manage PV tasks defined in PV SOP

Minimum Education required

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant scientific discipline

Experience/Knowledge required

  • 2 years of experience in research, clinical practice or industry, and 1 year of experience in an MSL role is preferred
  • Strong command of English and excellent communication skills.
  • Experience in developing and maintaining expert knowledge in medical therapeutic areas.
  • Awareness and understanding of drug development, clinical trials and medical affairs.
  • Knowledge of critical appraisal of scientific information and effective translation into medical stakeholder messages.
  • Knowledge of standard business procedures including project management, finance and budgeting skills
  • Strong organizational skills, goal-oriented mindset, and ability to earn trust across teams.
  • Stays current with clinical data and healthcare trends; flexible in dynamic environments with high ethical standards and professionalism.