Vice President, Global Obesity Medical Lead

Role Summary

The Vice President, Global Obesity Medical Lead will report to the Head of Medical, Internal Medicine and Primary Care. The incumbent will lead a team and develop portfolio and asset medical strategies in close collaboration with local Medical Leads. The role requires obesity experience with an understanding of pharmaceutical operations, products, strategic thinking, leadership ability, and strong knowledge of stakeholder communities and market dynamics. The Global Obesity Medical Lead will guide medical experts with deep obesity knowledge to shape strategy and drive medical excellence, partnering with commercial, health & value, clinical development, and regulatory functions.

Responsibilities

• Partner cross-functionally with medical teams, health & value functions, clinical development, legal, compliance and commercial teams to develop an integrated set of plans for supporting the pipeline and inline Pfizer Obesity portfolio.
• Provide oversight of environmental, disease state, competitor, asset analysis.
• Ensure the development of rapid data analytic capacities.
• Develop novel data generation strategies.
• Provide portfolio oversight.
• Develop standardized strategic tools and metrics.
• Ensure substantial medical input into all Asset Medicines Plans.
• Engage on peer basis with medical directors of independent networks and other healthcare providers to develop mutually beneficial solutions enhancing patient care.
• Chairs or leads the Global Medical Affairs Team, the medical governance body for the portfolio/assets.
• Represents medical affairs globally at the relevant asset team and/or other appropriate teams and committees.
• Takes on leadership role in development of global evidence generation plan.
• Co-chairs with safety the PBRC, where the risk-benefit of the medicine is assessed.
• Proactively incorporates patients' and physicians' voices in the development strategy across Therapeutic Area, to provide medicines meeting their needs, as well as the needs of customers, including payers.
• Serves as subject matter expert for portfolio assets and ensures consistency of interpretation and communication of data, both internally and externally, by partnering with critical stakeholders to drive global consensus and alignment around the medical and scientific interpretation of the asset data set.
• Ensures country-aligned medical input into the global commercial strategy and its implementation.
• Leads the management of global issues and assists and supports the management of regional issues as needed.
• Delivers global medical activities in support of the asset operating plan within time, cost and quality parameters; responsible for managing resources required to deliver such activities.
• Leads the planning of timely, high-quality execution of medical tactics to support the country and lifecycle plan.
• Understands and facilitates all local medical activities in support of the asset operating plan.
• Provides leading-edge knowledge and an ability to apply the medical expertise in guiding the strategic direction of in-line and business portfolio.
• Works with Marketing/Commercial Development, Clinical, Medical Teams, and country organizations to provide strategic direction in the drug development cycle and disease concept.
• Participates in Rapid Response Team to provide medical expertise on current issues that interface with the public and in regulatory matters.
• Engages and leads interactions with clinical and research leaders including academicians, clinical physicians, medical directors, directors of pharmacy and other health care professionals aligned with brand objectives.
• Proactively guides brand objectives and generates strategic medical solutions to business challenges.
• Proactively identify and address potential medical issues and ensure implementation of risk-management strategies in collaboration with team partners.
• Assesses safety and regulatory aspects with partners, including participation in safety and labeling working groups and potential interactions with the regulatory agency related to promotional activities and labeling.
• Considers strategic implications for medicine's benefit-risk profile and relevant medical/scientific data that interface with the public, tailored to different audiences (medical, marketing, sales, regulatory).
• Provides medical expertise in the medical/scientific assessment of potential business development activities and pre-proof of concept compounds within Pfizer Research Unit, as applicable.
• Influences decisions in the organization of external meetings including advisory boards, congresses, and symposiums, and seeks active feedback for continuous improvement.
• Sets the strategy and provides guidance to or leads Publication Subcommittee (or regional efforts) including concept, plan, author and agency liaison and final check in the Publication Subcommittee review process.
• Fosters an environment encouraging coaching among team members and supports colleagues in meetings to improve performance.

Qualifications

• Required: MD, PharmD, or PhD required.
• Required: More than 10 years with PharmD/PhD or more than 9 years with MD in the medical affairs function in the pharmaceutical industry, with broad experience including drug development, regulatory interactions, issue management, and business experience to understand Medical Affairs processes.
• Preferred: In-depth Obesity experience strongly preferred.
• Preferred: Experience with patient care, especially in obesity, preferred.
• Preferred: Deep understanding of HCP informational needs and what is required to support these needs.
• Preferred: Scientific translational research background and ability to understand, interpret, and communicate scientific literature.
• Preferred: In-depth understanding and experience with study methodology, protocol design, safety evaluation, and data analysis.
• Preferred: Proactive, pragmatic, flexible with excellent leadership, strategic thinking, and presentation skills.
• Preferred: Ability to lead and manage in a matrixed structure and in a collaborative team environment.
• Preferred: Extensive knowledge of patterns of medical practice and healthcare delivery and current and evolving landscape.
• Preferred: Advanced influencing skills to enable productive collaboration and alignment.
• Preferred: Highly motivated with a proven track record of high performance and delivering outstanding results.
• Preferred: Proficiency in building and managing relationships with stakeholders, including Senior Leaders, ensuring appropriate stakeholders are included in deliberations and decision-making.
• Preferred: Management and leadership skills to lead matrixed, cross-functional work teams.
• Preferred: Demonstrated entrepreneurship mindset, accountability, agility and focus on action and implementation.
• Preferred: Demonstrated record of sound judgment and intelligent decision-making.
• Preferred: Ability to evaluate budget requests.
• Preferred: International experience desirable.
• Preferred: Fluency in written and spoken English with excellent communication skills.