Specialty Care International Therapy Area Team Lead, Senior Medical Director, MD

This posting covers two available positions (I&I and Rare Disease). Therapy area responsibility will be determined through the selection process.

ROLE SUMMARY

Specialty Care (SC) Medical Affairs colleagues are experts with a deep knowledge of their therapeutic area and their medicines. Physicians and other health care professionals and stakeholders view them as peers, and SC colleagues as partners. In Specialty Care Medical Affairs, we provide our customers with accurate and clinically relevant information about our medicines that help them make the right treatment decisions through data generation and dissemination and peer-to-peer interactions. We also generate actionable insights on our medicines and the evolving clinical reality and collaborate with our colleagues to ensure that they are reflected in SC decisions and plans.

As an organization, Specialty Care Medical Affairs strives to be the industry leading and most differentiated Medical Affairs organization and our strengths lie in our talented colleagues, highest standard capabilities and strong culture. Our colleagues lead with integrity and are role models for medical professionalism and scientific excellence. By doing all this, we meet our ultimate purpose to ensure that all appropriate patients can safely and effectively benefit from our current and future medicines.

This position will assume a leadership role within the Global Medical Specialty Care International team. The Specialty Care International Therapy Area Team  Lead, Senior Medical Director, will co -develop with Global therapy area colleagues  a Medical Affairs strategy representative for International.  He/She needs to show a high level of scientific and technical product expertise as well as therapy  area expertise and will benefit from an established and strong network of international KOLs in order to function as a peer and leader for medical affairs in developing this ambition. A key element of the work will be to identify and leverage synergies and best practices in International Medical Affairs colleagues.  Collaboration across functions, creativity, solution-orientation and leadership skills are key criteria for a successful candidate while showing strong ability to prioritize and focus strategies based on specific asset requirements. These strategies will support Pfizer´s vision to be a highly trusted partner that is providing breakthroughs for patients.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

The  Specialty Care International Therapy Area Team  Lead, Senior Medical Director, will lead a team of medical affairs colleagues within the International team and partner cross-functionally with medical platforms, commercial teams, global access and value (GAV) functions, Pfizer research and development (PRD) and legal and compliance. The position will support medical affairs activities for International and IDM, with primary responsibility as the lead medical and scientific expert for International and IDM assets related to specific disease areas. The role will act as one of the medical specialists leading scientific work on specific product/(s) to provide medical leadership, strategy and support for International & IDM countries in alignment with Global Strategy.

If there will be specific priority brands for IDM, this position will lead to develop regional brand strategy and oversee execution. They will collaborate with both Global and International medical colleagues to understand unmet medical needs,  disease care gaps, HCP and patient perspectives, regulatory and market access dynamics and integrate these insights to co-create a global medical strategy. They will work very closely with global therapy area teams to align on the medical position to integrate coherent strategies to position, successfully launch, and sustain assets and plan LoE medical strategies within International/IDM.  This will be achieved by cross-functional integration with stakeholders  at the global and local levels (e.g. research and development, health outcomes, commercial, regulatory, safety, public affairs); lead execution of evidence and insight generation, interpretation and dissemination activities for the safe and effective use of asset; coordinating work and strategies where appropriate with KOLs and external scientists; conducting and publishing results of high quality scientific studies of relevance to asset goals; represent Pfizer at key regional meetings, global meetings, and scientific congresses

The Senior Director will:

• Be accountable for representing input of International and IDM country regional needs in the development and execution of the Global Medical Affairs strategic plan in support of their assets.
• Lead, coach and develop team members within the International SC medical team
• Demonstrate deep disease area expertise in their specific therapy areas and contribute to internal an