The Specialty Care Field Medical Director, MD is responsible for providing therapeutic area/product expertise for the designated therapeutic area across a broad range of external medical stakeholders (“EMS”) and initiatives in an assigned territory (typically comprised of one or more US states).
Requirements
- Plan and execute independent Medical strategies and engagements for appropriate assigned external medical stakeholders within a territory, compliantly coordinating with other Pfizer colleagues as needed to achieve Medical objectives
- Maintain required level of knowledge of relevant TA/disease states and Pfizer medicines, providing therapeutic area/product information to both internal and external stakeholders as needed
- Serve as a conduit and resource for Medical Information and external medical stakeholder insights, providing requested information to external medical stakeholder as allowed by Pfizer guidance and sharing external medical stakeholder viewpoints with Pfizer as appropriate
- Understand the priorities of Pfizer Medical Affairs in order to contribute to Medical educational content strategy development and execute aligned Field Medical tactics
- Maintain effective and appropriate scientific communication and collaboration among headquarters Medical colleagues, Medical Information, and other Pfizer Field Medical colleagues
- Demonstrate expertise in scientific communication across multiple channels, including, but not limited to, live and virtual presentations in small or large settings, written communication, and telephone or virtual conversations
- Optimize patient care improvement in Medical communications and deliverables, incorporating Health Literacy and cultural awareness principles to ensure that patients remain the ultimate focus
- Conduct all activities in accordance with all relevant policies, procedures and compliance guidance
- Educate external medical stakeholders based on patient care gaps and aligned to medical strategy with the goal of enhancing understanding of disease state and guideline-based care and improve overall patient care
- Achieve leadership-defined expectations regarding the number of external medical stakeholders engaged
- Field Medical Role Responsibilities
- Deliver approved medical content about Pfizer medicines and relevant topics in the designated therapeutic area
- Identify and seek medical scientific engagement from priority external medical stakeholder segments in assigned Therapeutic Area
- Provide truthful, accurate, and scientifically supported information in response to direct unsolicited medical requests from external medical stakeholders in a manner that complies with all applicable Pfizer guidelines, policies, and procedures
- Leads advisory boards (BRF, Vendor) with manager oversight.
- Field relevant inbound queries from external medical stakeholders via established triage process
- In collaboration with US and/or Global Medical Affairs colleagues, partner with IM/SC Research & Development and Global Product Development (GPD) in the identification of potential sites for Pfizer-sponsored clinical trials, including identification of sites serving under-represented patient populations in trials
- Serve as a Medical resource to HQ Medical Affairs, other Field Medical colleagues, and external Therapeutic Area investigators and researchers as appropriate
- Appropriately provide Medical support throughout the Investigator Sponsored Research (ISR) process
- Cultivate research and therapeutic area expertise, including familiarity with latest congress data and disease state literature
- Provides Asset leadership
- Understand the principles of study design, methodology, data analysis, and interpretation and communicate these concepts with external medical stakeholders
- Strong territory leadership
- Reactively and proactively communicate with local Patient Advocacy Group(s), as appropriate, in close collaboration with Corporate Affairs and HQ Medical Affairs
- Deliver insights on local patient organization structure, capabilities, and patient population needs
- Serve on Medical and/or TA and asset cross-functional committees, as appropriate
- Represent Pfizer Medical Affairs leadership with clinical/professional associations and/or societies, consistently demonstrating medical professionalism in all interactions
- Mentorship – Onboarding partner, ad board and study lead mentor.
- Participate in special projects as needed
Benefits
- 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions and an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution
- paid vacation
- holiday and personal days
- paid caregiver/parental and medical leave
- health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage
