Medical Director, Rheumatology, MD

ROLE SUMMARY

Reporting to the US Specialty Care (US SC) Medical Lead for Gastroenterology, Biosimilars, and Rheumatology within headquarters, the Dir, Rheumatology will be an integral member of the GI/Biosims/Rheum Medical Affairs team supporting current in-line assets (Xeljanz, Inflectra, and Abrilada), as well as pipeline assets depending on business needs and priorities.

The Director will develop long-term relationships with a wide variety of key healthcare stakeholders and customers, including professional organizations, patient societies, and key opinion leaders to demonstrate clinical and economic value of our assets.These activities are implemented to help inform HCPs and formulary decision-makers through medical presentations, pharmacoeconomic analyses, and outcomes evaluations along with the Organized Customer Group and Field Medical colleagues. Additional customer collaborations are built with the goal of aligning corporate medical priorities with the specific needs of the customer to advance the quality of patient care in areas of mutual interest, to identify provider and/or patient knowledge gaps, and areas for quality improvementinterventions. The Director will develop, in conjunction with Medical team colleagues, an advanced perspective of the evolving clinical and healthcare landscape within Rheumatology and the Biosimilar space.

The Director will utilize his/her understanding of and experience in clinical and patient-directed disease state issues to help assist Pfizer and Global Medical Affairs on the most strategic approaches to medical development of assets throughout various stages of the life cycle.The Director will also provide Pfizer brand teams with customer and clinical insights to assist in informing Pfizer strategies on critical disease state related health issues and facilitate the development of customer-focused toolsand medical communications to support patient access to quality medicines.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Participate in reviewing & approving promotional and nonpromotional materials ensuring fair balance

• Collaborate with cross functional constituents from Commercial, Organized Customer, Field Medical to drive US strategic direction for the Brand

• Ability to plan and lead successful advisory boards, congress-related symposia & congress planning

• Ability to contribute to Publication planning, data generation activities and other medical/scientific activities related to informing HCPs on proper use of this potential new asset

• Serve as a reliable, trusted source of accurate and scientific knowledge for the data, disease state, product label and competitive data sets for clinical trials

• Participate in developing and maintaining HCP engagement plans for HQ Medical Affairs

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Candidate demonstrates a breadth of diverse leadership experiences and capabilities including: the ability to influence and collaborate with peers, develop and coach others, oversee and guide the work of other colleagues to achieve meaningful outcomes and create business impact.

• MD/DO professional degrees with 4+ years of experience in Gastroenterology or Rheumatology

• Relationship builder within and outside of Pfizer

• Excellent presentation and communication skills

• Team oriented for success

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Specialty training and board certification in Gastroenterology or Rheumatology is preferred

• Clinical experience in IBD or RA preferred

  
Candidate demonstrates a breadth of diverse leadership experiences and capabilities including: the ability to influence and collaborate with peers, develop and coach others, oversee and guide the work of other colleagues to achieve meaningful outcomes and create business impact.

NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS

Ability to travel up to 25%

OTHER INFORMATION

• Last Date to Apply for Job: June 05, 2025

• Work Location Assignment: Hybrid

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $219,800.00 to $366,400.00. In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 25.0% of the base salary and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program. We offer comprehensive and generous benefits and programs to help our colleagues lead healthy lives and to support each of life’s moments. Benefits offered include a 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions and an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution, paid vacation, holiday and persona