Vice President, Global Obesity Medical Lead

Job Summary

The Vice President, Global Obesity Medical Lead will report to the Head of Medical, Internal Medicine and Primary Care. The incumbent will lead a team, and develop portfolio and asset Medical Strategies in close collaboration with the local Medical Leads.  The position has broad impact throughout the organization and requires Obesity experience with an understanding of pharmaceutical business operations, products, strategic thinking skills, leadership ability, and strong knowledge of the stakeholder community and market dynamics.  The leader will lead a team of medical experts that have strong knowledge in obesity, including the business environment, disease state, competitor data, asset data and synthesis to clear and effective medical strategy, and leading the effective pull through by the local teams. The role will partner closely with colleagues in commercial, health & value, clinical development, and regulatory among others.

The Global Obesity Medical Lead is an integral member of the Internal Medicine and Primary Care Medical Affairs leadership team. The Lead is the medical voice of the medicine(s). He/she combines the medical expertise and understanding of the patients and physicians’ point of view with that of the Therapeutic Area(s) and the specific medicine. He/she is part of a working environment where colleagues always understand, and exhibit customer focused medical professionalism with honor and integrity. The Lead brings their leadership skills, technical expertise, and an in-depth understanding of medicine development to bear on all activities while putting the patient first within the spectrum of the Pfizer Core Values and Behaviors.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

The Leader will partner cross-functionally with various medical teams, health & value functions, clinical development, legal, compliance and commercial teams to develop an integrated set of plans for supporting the pipeline and inline Pfizer Obesity portfolio.  

• Provide exceptional oversight of environmental, disease state, competitor, asset analysis 

• Ensure the development of rapid data analytic capacities 

• Develop novel data generation strategies 

• Provide portfolio oversight 

• Develop standardized strategic tools and metrics 

• Ensure substantial medical input into all Asset Medicines Plans 

Duties and Responsibilities may be delegated as appropriate, though the Obesity Portfolio Medical Lead retains accountability.  These include but are not limited to:

• Engage on peer basis with medical directors of independent networks and other healthcare providing entities to develop mutually beneficial solutions enhancing patient care
• Chairs or leads the Global Medical Affairs Team which is the Medical governance body for the portfolio/assets
• Represents medical affairs globally at the relevant asset team and/or other appropriate teams and committees
• Takes on leadership role in development of global evidence generation plan
• Co-chairs with safety the PBRC, where the risk-benefit of the medicine is assessed
• Proactively incorporates patients' & physicians' voice in the development strategy across Therapeutic Area, to provide medicines meeting their needs, as well as the needs of customers, including payers
• Serves as subject matter expert for portfolio asset(s) and ensures consistency of interpretation and communication of data, both internally and externally, by partnering with critical stakeholders within PRD or the parallel customer facing organizations to drive global consensus and alignment around the medical and scientific interpretation of the asset data set
• Ensures country aligned medical input into the global commercial strategy and its implementation
• Leads the management of global issues and assists and supports the management of regional issues as needed
• Delivers global medical activities in support of the asset operating plan within time, cost and quality parameters; responsible for managing resources required to deliver such activities
• Leads the planning of timely, high quality execution of medical tactics to support the country and lifecycle plan
• Understands and facilitates all local medical activities in support of the asset operating plan
• Provides leading edge knowledge and an ability to apply the technical and medical expertise in leading the strategic direction of in line and business portfolio enhancing the organizational success by grounding decisions in sound medical insights
• Works in collaboration with Marketing/Commercial Development, Clinical, Medical Teams, and the country organizations providing strategic direction in the drug deve