Clinical & Medical Science Liaison (CMSL)

Location:  This position may be performed remotely with the required ability to travel up to 60–80%, as needed.

The Opportunity

Praxis is seeking a field based Clinical & Medical Science Liaison who is a scientific and clinical expert that will be responsible for supporting clinical trial execution through collaboration with investigative sites, clinical research staff, and internal cross-functional teams. The CMSL ensures clinical trial sites are well-informed about Praxis’ therapeutic areas of interest, engaged, and supported to optimize patient enrollment and protocol adherence.

Primary Responsibilities

• Serves as a primary scientific and operational point of contact for Praxis clinical trial sites, in coordination with Clinical Operations and CRO partners.
• Delivers protocol and investigative product training to site personnel to ensure high-quality study conduct, ensuring a thorough understanding of the investigational product, and study specific protocols, goals and expectations.
• Identifies and helps resolve site-level issues related to patient recruitment and retention.
• Represents the company in medical scientific congresses and conferences.
• Creates and supports investigator engagement plans, contributing to the development and execution of strategic outreach to key sites and site staff.
• Identifies new clinical trial sites, referring satellite sites and work with established sites to accelerate enrollment of subjects.
• Stays current on therapeutic areas of interest for the company and competing development programs.
• Supports adherence to relevant regulatory requirements and Company Policies and Standard Operation procedures (SOPs)

Qualifications and Key Success Factors

• Experience supporting Neurology phase 2/3 clinical development programs and/or commercialized products is required.
• Advanced degree (PharmD, PhD, MD, NP, PA, or RN with relevant experience) preferred; Bachelor’s degree in a life sciences field required.
• Minimum of 2 years of relevant clinical research or clinical trial field experience (e.g., CTL, CRA, MSL, clinical educator, or study coordinator).
• Demonstrates a high level of intellectual curiosity, innovation and creative problem solving with an entrepreneurial spirit; can thrive in an agile environment.
•  Excellent communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to develop important relationships that include trust and encourage diversity in all its forms.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented with a passion to deliver quality results.

Compensation & Benefits

At Praxis, we believe that taking care of our people (and their people) is important, so we provide a world class benefits package to help you thrive.  This includes 99% of the premium paid for medical, dental and vision plans.  We also provide company-paid life insurance, AD&D, disability benefits, and voluntary plans to personalize your coverage. Thinking about the future?  We match dollar-for-dollar up to 6% on eligible 401(k) contributions and sweeten the deal with long-term stock incentives and ESPP.  We provide a discretionary quarterly bonus, an extremely flexible wellness benefit, generous PTO, paid holidays and company-wide shutdowns.  Not to mention, you'll also be joining a phenomenal crew of colleagues who are smart, engaged and inspiring.  We aim high, collaborate hard, and produce results.  Let’s achieve the impossible together! 

To round out our world-class total rewards package, we provide annualized base salary compensation in the range listed below.  Final salary range may be modified commensurate with job level, education, and experience.