Sr. Director, Oncology Scientific Communications

Role Summary

Sr. Director, Oncology Scientific Communications reports to the Team Lead Scientific Communications within Pfizer Oncology Medical Strategy Management. Leads development and execution of impactful scientific communication strategies for a number of assets within a given or multiple tumor areas. This role builds relationships across enterprise partners to drive excellence and serves as a strategic thought partner within Oncology Scientific Communications and cross-functionally to support priority business needs. Leads activities and enterprise-wide initiatives to advance the impact of Onc Sci Comms throughout the organization. They help shape a singular scientific voice anchored to the evidence, ensuring that all scientific communication and content strategies reflect TA priorities. They are accountable for ensuring that tactical execution of medical and scientific communication activities is aligned with strategy, specifically focused on optimizing the engagement and reach of emerging scientific information within the oncology community, occurs successfully and according to strategy. Subject matter expert in one of the three below chosen capabilities.

Responsibilities

• The Senior Director is responsible for the following, with specific responsibilities varying based on the chosen Sci Comms functional focus area (TA, Data Disclosures, or Content).
• Accountable for strategic oversight of TA scientific communication activities and the overarching scientific communications objectives/strategy/narrative, ensuring alignment and excellence in delivery.
• 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 Oncology Medical TA teams.
• Ensure alignment of each product‚Äôs overall scientific content/communications strategy with relevant Pfizer Oncology stakeholders, taking into account the specific needs of each asset and its stage of development.
• Be the point of contact for Global Product Teams, Global Medical franchises, and other Pfizer Oncology stakeholders in engaging with the external medical community on activities related to key clinical trial data readouts.
• Act as a strategic thought partner to the TA Medicalteam, providing scientific communications functional guidance and subject matter expertise in their designated focus areas.
• Lead financial projections and budget management for functional deliverables in addition to managing agencies and off-shore teams (if applicable).
• Maintain a thorough understanding of their assigned therapeutic area, including policy related issues, and the individual inline and pipeline assets across the specific TAs with an ability to serve as a primary point of contact for accurate, current medical and scientific knowledge 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, tailoring the approach to the specific needs of each asset and tumor area.
• Navigate complex stakeholder matrix to lead cross-category medical initiatives, harmonize ways of working and build best practice sharing forums.
• Lead best practice development and proactive benchmarking analyses to ensure Pfizer‚Äôs leadership both internally and externally as industry leaders.
• Stay abreast of US regulations and guidance that impact digital delivery of scientific information to external HCPs.

TA Communications

• Develops and maintains Scientific Communication Platforms (SCPs) for therapeutic area (TA) products, ensuring alignment with broader scientific narratives.
• Leads the development of scientific engagement plans with key opinion leaders (KOLs), healthcare professionals (HCPs), and other decision-makers.
• Oversees the creation of global medical narratives and FAQs related to key data disclosures.
• Collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders (e.g., Scientific Affairs, Corporate Communications) to ensure consistent scientific messaging.
• Acts as Medical Comms and Content Sub-Team Lead.

Data Disclosure

• Drives and executes data disclosure plans, including plain language summaries and enhanced publication content.
• Manages author reviews and publication processes.
• Chairs Scientific Publication Committees (SPCs).
• Collaborates with clinical study teams to determine publication content.
• Supports global product teams and other stakeholders on publication activities.

Content Focus

• Leads content strategy, projects, and digital initiatives across all medical content on external and internal channels.
• Defines and delivers global and regional medical content for field teams, headquarters, congresses, and digital platforms.
• Ensures regular updates to global congress content in coordination with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Oversees the creation of field medical content aligned with TA and regional/local Medical Affairs needs.
• Resolves content-related issues, considering medical, patient, HCP, legal, regulatory, and customer perspectives.
• Defines and delivers TA training content.

Qualifications / Skills

• Bachelor‚Äôs degree with a minimum 15 years of relevant biopharmaceutical/biotech or agency experience (such as Medical Communications, Medical Affairs or scientific communications within Clinical Development roles).
• Advanced scientific degree (PhD, PharmD, MS, etc.) preferred
• Experience developing strategic scientific communications and other scientific content to support scientific exchange, including the use of tools and programs to meet the needs of HCPs.
• Understanding of Medical Affairs, including medical strategies, disease areas, and objectives.
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to build rapport and credibility in a matrix organization.
• Proven ability to translate complex scientific concepts into digestible communications across multiple channels.
• Strong written and oral communication skills to present scientific information to varied audiences.
• Excellent organizational skills to manage multiple projects with deadlines.
• Experience in a highly regulated environment delivering compliant yet innovative scientific content.
• Experience representing a function in a matrix organization with strong presentation and customer-facing skills.
• Experience with omnichannel content development (publications, plain language summaries, Congress materials, podcasts, etc.).
• Experience with scientific peer-reviewed publications.

Education

• Pharmaceutical/biomedical advanced degree preferred for senior level; Bachelor‚Äôs degree with extensive experience may be considered.