Senior/ Medical Science Liaison

Job Description:

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About Role

The Senior/ Medical Science Liaison (Senior/ MSL) will play a key role in strengthening Docquity's medical affairs capabilities through a balanced focus on internal scientific leadership and medical content excellence, alongside external scientific engagement with healthcare professionals (HCPs) and key opinion leaders (KOLs). The role is responsible for ensuring the scientific accuracy, quality and credibility of medical content, providing medical expertise and guidance to cross-functional teams, and facilitating meaningful, evidence-based scientific exchanges with external healthcare stakeholders.

The Senior MSL will also support medical affairs-driven initiatives, contribute to scientific education and engagement programmes, and advance the organisation's strategic direction towards AI-enabled medical activities while maintaining scientific integrity and appropriate medical oversight.

Strong medical knowledge, scientific communication capabilities and stakeholder engagement experience are essential, while medical writing experience will be an added advantage.

• Job Title: Senior/ Medical Science Liaison
• Employment Type: Permanent/Full-Time/Fixed Term Contract
• Work Experience: · MSL 1-3 years/ Senior MSL 4–7 years of relevant professional experience in in medical affairs, MSL, scientific engagement or related medical functions, with demonstrable experience in both scientific content evaluation and HCP engagement. Demonstrated experience reviewing and interpreting medical literature, clinical research and evidence-based scientific information. Experience providing independent medical or scientific input to cross-functional stakeholders. Preferred: Previous experience in medical writing, scientific content development or medical education programmes. Preferred: Experience working in pharmaceutical, healthcare technology, medical communications or digital healthcare organisations..
• Location: Selangor, Malaysia
• Academic Qualification: MBBS, MD, B.Pharm or PhD in Medical Sciences, Life Sciences or a closely related healthcare or scientific discipline. Strong foundational knowledge of clinical medicine, pharmacology, therapeutics or biomedical sciences, appropriate to the role's assigned therapeutic areas.

Expectations from you

Internal Medical Content Quality & Scientific Leadership

1. Medical Content Review and Scientific Quality Assurance: Lead the scientific review and validation of medical and educational content to ensure clinical accuracy, scientific integrity, appropriate referencing and alignment with current medical evidence and relevant standards.

2. Scientific Leadership and Advisory: Act as a medical and scientific subject matter expert, providing evidence-based guidance to internal stakeholders and strengthening scientific standards across medical content development and medical affairs initiatives.

3. Scientific Content Development: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and refine scientifically robust medical education materials, clinical summaries, scientific presentations and healthcare professional content.

4. Evidence Review and Medical Research: Conduct scientific literature reviews, critically evaluate clinical evidence and translate complex medical information into accurate, relevant and accessible scientific communications.

5. AI-Enabled Medical Content and Innovation: Support the adoption and responsible application of AI-enabled tools in medical content development, scientific research and medical affairs workflows, ensuring appropriate medical oversight, evidence verification and quality assurance.

External Scientific Engagement & Medical Affairs

6. HCP and KOL Scientific Engagement: Establish and maintain professional scientific relationships with healthcare professionals, key opinion leaders and relevant medical experts through credible, balanced and evidence-based scientific exchange.

7. Scientific Discussions and Medical Education: Facilitate scientific discussions, medical education sessions and knowledge-sharing activities to support healthcare professional understanding of clinical evidence, emerging therapies and relevant medical developments.

8. External Medical Insights and Scientific Intelligence: Gather and synthesise relevant scientific insights from HCP and KOL interactions, identify emerging clinical knowledge gaps and communicate actionable findings to inform medical affairs priorities and content strategies.

9. Medical Affairs Programmes and Stakeholder Collaboration: Support the planning and execution of scientific engagement programmes, medical education initiatives and other medical affairs activities, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to deliver high-quality outcomes.

10. Scientific Integrity and Professional Standards: Ensure all internal medical activities and external scientific engagements are conducted ethically, objectively and in accordance with applicable medical affairs standards, organisational policies and relevant regulatory requirements.

Skills required

• HCP/KOL engagement, scientific exchange, clinical evidence appraisal, medical content review, medical education delivery and stakeholder insight synthesis.
• Strong medical and scientific knowledge, with the ability to interpret complex clinical information accurately.
• Proficiency in scientific literature searching, evidence evaluation and critical appraisal of clinical studies.
• Strong understanding of medical content review, scientific accuracy, appropriate referencing and evidence-based communication.
• Ability to develop, review and refine scientific presentations, clinical summaries and medical education materials.
• Familiarity with scientific literature databases such as PubMed and relevant clinical guidelines.
• Understanding of medical affairs practices, scientific engagement and appropriate medical communication standards.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, particularly PowerPoint, Word and Excel.
• Ability to use AI-enabled research or content tools critically, including identifying unsupported claims, verifying references and recognising limitations of AI-generated medical information.
• Preferred: Medical writing, scientific editing, reference management tools and experience in AI-assisted medical content workflows.
• Strengthen scientific presentation, relationship building, influencing and stakeholder engagement competencies.
• Scientific integrity and strong attention to detail.
• Critical thinking and evidence-based problem-solving.
• Clear written and verbal scientific communication.
• Cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management.
• Independent judgement and accountability.
• Adaptability and willingness to learn emerging technologies.
• Effective prioritisation and time management.

About Docquity

We are building and growing the team at Docquity Malaysia.

Docquity is Southeast Asia’s largest professional community of healthcare professionals. Our single-minded purpose is to build a trusted digital healthcare platform to elevate patient outcomes and, ultimately, build healthier lives.

Docquity connects healthcare professionals to help them be more collaborative, productive, and impactful and partners with companies to reach, educate and gain insights. Docquity has more than 500,000 healthcare professionals and has offices in India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan and the UAE.

Culture at Docquity

While we have been growing fast, we are still small enough that everyone makes a pivotal difference. We care less about hours worked and more about the outcome, and the impact you make. We have worked hard to create an autonomous working culture emphasizing work/life balance and a fun working environment. We follow the hybrid work culture.