Senior Director, Disease Area Lead (DAL), Internal Medicine
PfizerAbout the role
Use Your Power for Purpose
Everything we do, every day, is driven by an unwavering commitment to the patients, healthcare providers, and customers who depend on us. In Global Commercial Strategy (GCS), we translate science of R&D into value for patients and Pfizer — from early development through launch, growth, and LOE lifecycle. GCS serves as the strategic engine and commercial voice across the asset lifecycle — shaping asset positioning and evidence generation, leading global launches, and driving sustained access and brand performance through market and payer insights, broad access, & commercial rigor. We take pride in shaping how innovative medicines reach the people who need them most, and ensuring they are accessible, understood, and valued across every market. Our success is anchored in the following Pfizer Blueprint values: Science, Technology, Transformation and Colleagues. Whether you are defining strategy, managing brands at different lifecycle, or building the capabilities that power our commercial engine, your work directly shapes patient outcomes and the long-term success of Pfizer's portfolio.
What You Will Achieve
The Senior Director, Disease Area Lead (DAL), Internal Medicine is a senior individual contributor role within the Internal Medicine and Antivirals Early Commercial Business, part of the Global Commercial Strategy organization, reporting to the VP, GCS, IM/AV. This role has no current direct reports and will lead through senior matrix leadership. The role is responsible for shaping disease-area commercial strategy across priority Internal Medicine and Antivirals areas and serving as a senior commercial voice to R&D, Medical Affairs, Global Access Strategy & Pricing (GASP), Business Development, and US and International Commercial teams.
The Internal Medicine and Antivirals portfolio represents significant strategic value to realizing Pfizer's vision to achieve leadership via breakthroughs in prioritized diseases and biological axes to generate highly differentiated, multi-indication mega-blockbusters. Today, the portfolio delivers more than $11B globally, with 4 ongoing clinical studies underway to expand our product portfolio over the next several years.
This colleague will bring scientific depth, commercial judgment, and enterprise perspective to shape disease-area priorities, early development choices, product concepts, lifecycle implications, and differentiated commercial opportunities. The Senior Director will partner closely with R&D, Medical Affairs, GASP, Business Analytics & Insights, Competitive Intelligence, Business Development, and US and International Commercial teams to translate scientific, clinical, market, access, and competitive insights into clear disease-area recommendations and actionable strategic choices.
This role requires an experienced commercial strategist who can operate across ambiguity, influence senior cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority, and shape high-performing cross-functional ways of working that strengthen disease-area strategy, early commercial input, and AI-enabled decision support in service of patient impact and enterprise value realization.
Responsibilities:
Disease Area Strategy and Long-Range Planning:
Lead development of long-range commercial disease-area strategy across priority Internal Medicine and Antivirals areas, spanning early pipeline assets, lifecycle opportunities, external innovation, and emerging disease-area opportunities.
Establish integrated near-, mid-, and long-term views of disease-area opportunities, risks, unmet needs, and development implications to inform strategic decision-making.
Synthesize scientific, clinical, commercial, access, competitive, and patient insights to identify disease-area priorities and strategic choices.
Monitor shifts in the scientific and competitive landscape to identify emerging trends, market discontinuities, and implications for future Internal Medicine strategy.
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