Role Description:
Senior Consultant – Head of Field Medical
Location
Remote with business travel as required.
Reports to
Medical Director - LUCENT
Role Purpose
The Senior Consultant – Head of Field Medical plays a key role in supporting our biopharma clients with the development, deployment, and optimisation of Field Medical teams, including Medical Science Liaisons (MSLs) and other external-facing medical roles. This individual will bring significant experience in Field Medical Affairs, with a focus on strategic field planning, stakeholder engagement, and excellence in execution.
This role involves providing expert insight and practical support across all aspects of Field Medical activities, from field team structure and capability building, to training, scientific engagement strategy, and performance evaluation. It is ideally suited to someone who has worked in Field Medical leadership and understands both the strategic and operational dimensions of medical and scientific external engagement.
When not delivering on projects, the role demands proactivity in generating new business for LUCENT, helping our company reach its business objectives in the coming years.
The ideal candidate will be a confident communicator, relationship builder, and problem solver with a deep understanding of the evolving role of Field Medical in biopharma.
Key Responsibilities
Client Support and Field Strategy:
- Advise clients on the design and implementation of field medical strategies aligned with product lifecycle and company goals.
- Support field team deployment planning, territory mapping, stakeholder identification, and segmentation approaches.
- Develop and advise on external engagement plans including KOL mapping, scientific exchange planning, and insight generation.
- Provide thought leadership on trends and innovation in field medical affairs.
Capability Building and Training:
- Lead or support the creation of MSL training programmes and materials, including onboarding, scientific communication, compliance, and skills development.
- Deliver coaching and mentoring to field-based teams and their managers.
- Support the development and implementation of field medical SOPs, guidance documents, and tools.
Project Delivery and Operational Support:
- Support project budgeting and resourcing discussions in collaboration with senior leadership.
- Work collaboratively with internal teams and clients to ensure seamless delivery of field medical projects.
- Support medical engagement tracking, field insights collection, and performance metrics development.
- Provide input into scientific resources for field teams (e.g. MSL decks, briefing documents, FAQs).
- Contribute to cross-functional projects where field medical intersects with medical strategy and commercial functions.
External and Internal Collaboration:
- Foster strong relationships with external stakeholders (KOLs, HCPs, investigators) where appropriate.
- Work in close partnership with LUCENT’s internal consultants and leadership to ensure high-quality Project outcomes.
Commercial delivery
- Proactively connects with and engages with the external environment to deliver new clients and new projects to LUCENT, to support our commercial goals.
Person Specification
This role is well suited to someone who has led or worked extensively with field medical teams and understands the demands, value, and opportunities within this space.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- Advanced degree in life sciences (MD, PhD, PharmD or equivalent).
- Substantial experience in field medical roles (e.g. MSL, MSL Manager, Medical Lead) and field medical excellence within pharmaceutical or biotech companies.
- Proven ability to deliver strategic and tactical field medical support in a consultancy, agency, or in-house role.
- Strong understanding of compliance frameworks, KOL engagement principles, and field-based insight collection.
- Excellent communication, coaching, and presentation skills.
Desired Traits:
- Natural relationship builder with credibility among scientific and clinical audiences.
- Proactive and collaborative, with strong project ownership.
- Practical and pragmatic in implementing field strategies.
- Curious, reflective, and committed to continuous improvement in the field medical function.
- Passionate about enabling better healthcare through science-led engagement.
Requirements
Full time 5 days a week Monday to Friday.
About the Business
LUCENT biopharma is a rapidly growing consultancy agency, providing specialist medical and scientific expertise to Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology companies in Europe, the UK and the US.
LUCENT specialises at the interface of R&D and commercialisation of prescription medicines. Our clients trust us to increase their chance of success in bringing these new medicines to market and to maximise their potential benefit to patients once there.
We are unique in our depth of experience in this realm. Our team members have spent decades in both large Pharma and Biotech. We are experienced doctors, PhD scientists and life-science professionals with a wealth of expertise and enthusiasm for our work. We are adaptable and high performing, carefully tailoring our services to our clients’ needs.
As a team, we believe there is no greater undertaking than working to improve human health and wellbeing. Our work touches on the lives of patients, family members and healthcare professionals across the globe.
