Specialty Care Field Medical Director, Sickle Cell Disease, MD

Role Summary

The Specialty Care Field Medical, Director (Rare Disease, Sickle Cell Disease) is responsible for providing therapeutic area/product expertise for the designated therapeutic area across a broad range of external medical stakeholders (“EMS”) segments and initiatives in an assigned territory (typically comprised of one or more US states).

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute independent Medical strategy and engagement for assigned external medical stakeholders within a territory, coordinating with other Pfizer colleagues as needed to achieve Medical objectives
• Maintain required knowledge of relevant TA/disease states and Pfizer medicines, providing information to internal and external stakeholders as needed
• Serve as a conduit and resource for Medical Information and external medical stakeholder insights, providing requested information to external medical stakeholders as allowed by Pfizer guidance and sharing external medical stakeholder viewpoints with Pfizer as appropriate
• Understand the priorities of Pfizer Medical Affairs to contribute to Medical educational content strategy development and execute aligned Field Medical tactics
• Maintain effective communication and collaboration among headquarters Medical colleagues, Medical Information, and other Pfizer Field Medical colleagues
• Demonstrate expertise in scientific communication across multiple channels (live and virtual presentations, written communication, and telephone or virtual conversations)
• Optimize patient care improvements in Medical communications and deliverables, incorporating Health Literacy and cultural awareness principles to keep patients as the focus
• Conduct all activities in accordance with relevant policies, procedures and compliance guidance
• Educate external medical stakeholders based on patient care gaps, aligned to medical strategy, to enhance understanding of disease state and guideline-based care and improve patient care
• Achieve leadership-defined expectations regarding the number of external medical stakeholders engaged
• Deliver approved medical content about Pfizer medicines and relevant topics in the designated therapeutic area
• Identify and seek medical scientific engagement from priority external medical stakeholder segments in the therapeutic area
• Provide truthful, accurate, and scientifically supported information in response to direct unsolicited medical requests from external medical stakeholders in a manner that complies with Pfizer guidelines
• Lead advisory boards (BRF, Vendor) with manager oversight
• Field relevant inbound queries from external medical stakeholders via established triage process
• Partner with Internal Medicine / Specialty Care Research & Development and Global Product Development (GPD) to identify potential sites for Pfizer-sponsored clinical trials, including sites serving under-represented patient populations
• Serve as a Medical resource to HQ Medical Affairs, other Field Medical colleagues, and external TA investigators and researchers as appropriate
• Provide Medical support throughout the Investigator Sponsored Research (ISR) process
• Cultivate research and therapeutic area expertise, including familiarity with latest congress data and disease state literature
• Provide asset leadership
• Understand the principles of study design, methodology, data analysis, and interpretation and communicate these concepts with external medical stakeholders
• Demonstrate strong territory leadership
• Reactively and proactively communicate with local Patient Advocacy Groups, in collaboration with Corporate Affairs and HQ Medical Affairs
• Deliver insights on local patient organization structure, capabilities, and patient population needs
• Serve on Medical and/or TA and asset cross-functional committees, as appropriate
• Represent Pfizer Medical Affairs leadership with clinical/professional associations and/or societies, demonstrating medical professionalism in all interactions
• Mentorship – onboarding partner, ad board and study lead mentor
• Participate in special projects as needed

Qualifications

• Required: MD or DO Degree
• Required: 4+ years of relevant experience
• Required: Subject matter expert recognized across internal and external stakeholders
• Required: Breadth of diverse leadership experiences and capabilities including the ability to influence and collaborate with peers and create business impact
• Required: Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Required: Excellent interpersonal skills: ability to understand and respond to multiple external and internal stakeholders’ demands and manage and handle conflict constructively
• Required: Ability to manage a significant volume of projects developed in a remote environment, prioritizing, implementing, and demonstrating excellent judgment skills
• Required: Work within a matrixed, multi-disciplinary team to foster strong Pfizer/external medical stakeholder relationships aligned with Pfizer Medical objectives
• Required: Effectively manage through and lead change in an ever-changing external health care environment
• Required: Demonstrate change agility; be flexible to new opportunities and adaptable to organizational change
• Required: Problem-solve and network enterprise-wide as appropriate to identify solutions
• Required: Collaborate effectively and demonstrate leadership and teamwork with peers, internal stakeholders and external medical stakeholders that inspire alignment and partnership on a shared vision or strategy
• Required: Be a self-starter, be accountable, and have a sense of urgency in delivering results that have medical impact and yield a positive external medical stakeholder experience
• Required: Maintain self-awareness and continually choose behaviors and responses based on impact on performance and engagement
• Required: Demonstrate clinical and technical skills
• Required: Rapidly adopt and utilize new digital technology and other resources with external medical stakeholders and record medical interactions
• Preferred: Familiarity with internal/external SOPs/Regulations regarding Pfizer/external medical stakeholder interactions
• Preferred: Previous Field Medical experience

Additional Requirements

• Travel: Operate a Pfizer company car and regularly fly; proximity to airline hub city; travel 40-50% of time
• Valid US driver's license and driving record in compliance with company standards; any DUI/DWI or other impaired driving citation within the past 7 years will disqualify from hire