Roche Posted August 15, 2026

Medical Scientific Liaison (West-Central Region, U.S.)

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America FULL_TIME
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About this opportunity

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections,  where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

Medical Scientific Liaison  (West-Central Region, U.S.) 

A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That’s what makes us Roche.

The Opportunity:

The Medical Scientific Liaison (MSL) is a field-based scientific leader who represents Roche Medical & Scientific Affairs to laboratory and clinical stakeholders across your assigned region.

In this role, you will serve as a trusted partner to laboratory directors, clinicians, and key decision-makers. You will translate complex diagnostic and clinical data into meaningful dialogue that advances patient care and informs regional and national medical strategy.

You will work closely with Sr. Scientific Managers and Sr. Medical Managers to help shape and execute an integrated medical plan grounded in real-world insights from the field. You will bring the voice of the customer to our medical plan and strategy. Your perspective will directly influence how we prioritize educational initiatives, support laboratories, and accelerate access to innovative diagnostics for patients.

This role sits within the Cardiometabolism/Neurology (Core Lab and NPC) team in Medical & Scientific Affairs and requires scientific depth, intellectual curiosity, and the ability to engage peers in high-level clinical and technical discussion.

While you may bring deep expertise in a specific disease area, you must be comfortable expanding into a variety of disease topics and continuously strengthening your scientific foundation and knowledge base. This is a role for someone who thrives in independent field engagement while contributing meaningfully to a collaborative, strategy-driven medical team.

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

Strategic Engagement: Serve as the primary scientific partner to regional KOLs, laboratories, and clinical stakeholders.

Relationship Management: Build and sustain trusted, long-term partnerships to understand evolving customer needs and gaps.

Insight Generation: Lead high-value scientific exchanges to capture actionable insights that inform medical strategy and portfolio planning.

KOL Mapping & CRM Excellence: Identify emerging leaders and maintain accurate, timely documentation of interactions and insights in SFDC.

Scientific Exchange & Education: Deliver impactful, non-promotional education to clinicians and laboratorians (in-person and virtual).

Tailored Educational Support: Assess needs and provide customized resources (e.g., presentations, pipeline updates, speaker programs, PACE).

Medical Expertise & Compliance: Maintain deep therapeutic knowledge and respond to unsolicited and off-label inquiries in line with compliance standards.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with medical and cross-functional teams to execute regional plans, support launches, and contribute to advisory boards and congress activities.

Medical Excellence & Team Contribution: Ensure scientific accuracy, share best practices, support onboarding, and drive continuous improvement across MSA.

Who You Are:

You are a scientifically credible, field-ready expert who is comfortable engaging laboratory directors, medical directors, clinical specialists, and senior clinical stakeholders as a peer. You operate independently, think strategically, and translate complex diagnostic and clinical data into meaningful dialogue that advances patient care.

Bachelor's Degree and 5+ years clinical/practice/industry experience OR Masters Level Degree in Science + 3 years of related clinical/practice/industry experience OR PhD level degree + 1 year of related clinical/practice/industry experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience in Cardiometabolism, neurology, infectious disease, diabetes, disease areas

Knowledge of Immunoassay, clinical chemistry, mass spectrometry, or related field preferred; equivalent laboratory leadership experience will be considered

Prior experience in industry as a Medical Scientific Liaison, Scientific advisory, manager, R&D, Clinical sales or Clinical Laboratory Director/Manager

Ability to develop and maintain collegial relationships with Laboratory and other Healthcare Professionals

Ability to understand, interpret and present a wide range of scientific and medical topics

Ability to lead, direct, influence and empower multi-discipline teams and individuals in a matrixed organization

Ability to successfully interface with senior management (within and external to company)

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Ability to prioritize work

Strong analytical and problem solving skills

Strong judgment and decision making skills

Ability to develop and maintain deep relationships with thought leaders and customers

Ability to quantify metrics

Location: This is a field-based role. Preferred candidate locations include Denver, CO or Dallas-Fort Worth, TX.

Relocation benefits are not available for this job posting.

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of Indianapolis, IN is $133,200- $247,400.  Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law.  A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance.  This position also qualifies for the benefits detailed at the link provided below.

Benefits

 

 

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy and practice to employ, promote, and otherwise treat any and all employees and applicants on the basis of merit, qualifications, and competence. The company's policy prohibits unlawful discrimination, including but not limited to, discrimination on the basis of Protected Veteran status, individuals with disabilities status, and consistent with all federal, state, or local laws.

If you have a disability and need an accommodation in relation to the online application process, please contact us by completing this form Accommodations for Applicants .

Job details

Seniority
Not listed
Function
Medical Affairs
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Employment type
FULL_TIME

How this role compares

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1124Currently active
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70Countries represented

Salary context

322 of 1256 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function. This posting doesn't list a seniority level, so peers aren't narrowed by seniority either -- the range below may span more levels than usual.

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Highest disclosed · Sr Medical Director (Heme Oncology) (Boston, US) · Servier $298/hr – $350/hr (≈ $619,840–$728,000/yr)
Peer group range $86,320 – $673,920 (median $224,445)

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