Sickle Cell / Oxbryta Patient Lead

Use Your Power for Purpose

The Sickle Cell Patient Lead is an individual contributor role within the Global Commercial Group, reporting to the Global Commercial Lead (GCL), Sickle Cell (OXB/OSI). This role is responsible for leading patient, caregiver, advocacy, and community strategy for OXB/OSI and the broader sickle cell disease priorities within I&I/Rare. The colleague will bring strong patient marketing, patient insights, advocacy, and cross-functional leadership experience to ensure patient voice, education, support, and lived experience are deeply embedded into commercial strategy and execution. 

The broader I&I and Rare Disease portfolio represents significant strategic value to realizing Pfizer’s vision to achieve leadership via breakthroughs in prioritized diseases and biological axes, with the goal of generating highly differentiated, multi-indication medicines that address areas of significant unmet need. Today, the portfolio delivers more than $10B globally, with 22 ongoing clinical studies underway to significantly expand the product portfolio over the next several years. This role will contribute to that ambition by advancing patient-centered strategy for Oxbryta and the sickle cell disease portfolio, helping ensure patient insights, education needs, advocacy considerations, and patient-HCP dynamics are deeply embedded into commercial planning and execution. 

Sickle cell disease is a lifelong, debilitating inherited blood disorder with acute and chronic complications, including vaso-occlusive crises, anemia, blood transfusions, progressive end-organ damage to name a few. The patient and caregiver experience is shaped by complex disease burden, disparities in care, evolving treatment options, and the need for clear, credible, culturally relevant education and support. In this dynamic environment, the Sickle Cell Patient Lead will be accountable for developing compliant patient strategies, insight generation, patient journey understanding, patient-HCP dialogue enhancement, advocacy engagement, and patient-facing resources that support informed decision-making and meaningful engagement across markets. 

The Sickle Cell Patient Lead will partner closely with the GCL Sickle Cell (OXB/OSI), Medical Affairs, Safety, Regulatory, Legal, Corporate Affairs, Patient Advocacy, Business Analytics & Insights (BAI), Global Access Strategy & Pricing (GASP), regional and country commercial teams, and agency partners to translate patient and caregiver insights into clear strategies, core resources, and executional priorities. This role requires strong judgment, sensitivity to evolving disease / therapeutic environment and regulatory considerations, and an absolute commitment to compliant, patient-centered ways of working. 

What You Will Achieve

Patient Strategy, Insights and Journey Leadership: 

• Own patient and caregiver strategy for OXB/OSI, ensuring patient needs, lived experience, and community perspectives are reflected in commercial planning, core resources, and market execution guidance. 
• Lead the generation and evolution of patient and caregiver insights, in partnership with BAI and cross-functional colleagues, to deepen understanding of barriers, motivators, education needs, and moments that matter across the sickle cell disease journey. 
• Synthesize patient, caregiver, advocacy, HCP, market, access, and community insights into clear strategic implications, value propositions, and executional priorities. 
• Develop a deep understanding of the patient-HCP dialogue and identify opportunities to appropriately amplify patient voice in the point-of-care setting. 
• Monitor changes in the sickle cell disease environment, patient sentiment, advocacy priorities, and treatment landscape to inform patient strategy and resource evolution. 

Patient Education, Activation and Core Resource Development: 

• Lead development and refinement of patient and caregiver education strategy, core content, messaging, and resources that are accurate, culturally relevant, compliant, and fit-for-purpose across global, regional, and local needs. 
• Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure patient-facing materials align with medical, safety, regulatory, legal, access, and commercial requirements. 
• Support development of resources that help patients and caregivers understand disease burden, care pathways, treatment conversations, and available support in a clear and responsible way. 
• Identify opportunities to improve patient engagement, education, and support across channels, while ensuring alignment with approved strategy and compliance standards. 
• Partner with regional and country teams to customize patie