Director, Vaccines Medical Content and Communication - Vaccines

Why Patients Need You

Vaccines are one of the greatest public health advancements of all time, resulting in the control, elimination, or near-elimination of numerous infectious diseases that were once pervasive and often fatal. Pfizer has a rich history in vaccine research and development and have designed novel vaccines based on new delivery systems and technologies that have resulted in vaccines that prevent bacterial, vector, and viral borne diseases. Over the years, we’ve played a pivotal role in eliminating or nearly eliminating deadly infectious diseases like smallpox and polio globally.

Today, Pfizer has an industry-leading portfolio of 19 approved vaccines and is committed to developing innovative solutions that prevent and treat disease.

ROLE SUMMARY

The Vaccines Medical Communication and Content Director will:

• Report to the Team Lead within Pfizer Medical Content and Communication, Vaccines.
• Lead the development and execution of impactful scientific communication strategies for assigned Pfizer medicines, with a focus on achieving a singular scientific voice anchored to the evidence.
• Ensure that overall scientific communication and content strategies reflect Therapeutic Area (TA) priorities and that tactical execution of medical and scientific communication activities, specifically focused on optimizing the engagement and reach of emerging scientific information within the Vaccines community, occurs successfully and according to strategy.
• Focus on achieving a singular scientific voice anchored to the evidence, optimizing the engagement, consistency and reach of emerging scientific information within the vaccines. They will be a subject matter expert in one of the two chosen capabilities described below:
  • Data Disclosure (Publications): Collaborate with TA teams and Sci Comms colleagues to drive the publication planning, writing, and dissemination of scientific data from clinical trials and research activities, ensuring a cohesive and impactful publication strategy across the portfolio.
  • Medical Content: Create a wide range of engaging and informative scientific content for diverse channels and audiences, including medical to medical resources, congress, and digital platform content.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Director will be responsible for the following, with specific responsibilities varying based on the chosen Medical Comms functional focus area (Data Disclosures, or Content):

General Responsibilities

• Responsible for ensuring strategic input from a broad range of stakeholders (internal and external) is integrated into scientific communications strategic planning to meet the needs of these stakeholders and especially the Vaccines Medical TA teams.
• Support Global Product Teams, Global Medical franchises, and other Pfizer Vaccines stakeholders in engaging with the external medical community on activities related to key clinical trial data readouts.
• Ensure alignment of each product’s overall scientific content/communications strategy with relevant Pfizer Vaccine stakeholders (e.g., partnering with cross-functional Medical Teams, Channel Excellence, Data Analytics, and other key stakeholders to ensure alignment of communication plans with medical priorities and optimize opportunities for broader data dissemination).
• Act as a strategic thought partner to the TA medical team, providing sci comms functional guidance and subject matter expertise in their designated focus area.
• Lead financial projections and budget management for functional deliverables in addition to managing agencies and off-shore teams (if applicable).
• Collaborate with International Medical Communications and Content team to ensure sci comms deliverables are shared with country medical colleagues for adaptation.
• Have a thorough understanding of therapeutic area assigned, including policy related issues, and the individual inline and pipeline assets across the specific TAs with an ability either to serve as a primary point of contact for accurate, current medical and scientific knowledge or to identify the appropriate Subject Matter Expert within therapeutic area, for internal and external stakeholders and customers.
• Responsible for building collaborative relationships with relevant partners in and outside of Medical to ensure optimal creation and execution of channel-specific TA medical communications strategies.
• Stay abreast of US regulations and guidance that impact digital delivery of scientific information to external HCPs.

TA Communications

• As a core member of the Global Medical Affairs Team (GMAT), responsible for identifying the need for and establishing the Scientific Communications Platform (SCP)