Oncology Field Medical Director (MD)

Territory includes Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington DC.

About the role

The Oncology Field Medical Director, Malignant Hematology provides therapeutic area and product expertise—including hematology and pipeline—across a broad range of medical customer segments and initiatives in an assigned territory.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute Medical strategy and engagement for assigned customers within the territory, compliantly coordinating with other Pfizer colleagues to achieve Medical objectives.
• Maintain required knowledge of relevant therapeutic areas, disease states, and Pfizer medicines; provide therapeutic area and product information to internal and external stakeholders.
• Serve as a conduit and resource for Medical Information and customer insights, providing requested information to healthcare professionals (HCPs) as allowed by Pfizer guidance and sharing customer viewpoints with Pfizer.
• Understand Pfizer Medical Affairs priorities to contribute to Medical 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 communication across multiple channels, including live and virtual presentations, written communication, and telephone or virtual conversations.
• Optimize patient centricity of Medical communications and deliverables, incorporating Health Literacy and cultural awareness principles.
• Deliver approved medical content about Pfizer medicines and relevant topics in the designated therapeutic area.
• Identify and engage priority customer segments in the assigned Therapeutic Area.
• Provide truthful, accurate, and scientifically supported information in response to direct unsolicited medical requests from HCPs in compliance with Pfizer guidelines, policies, and procedures.
• Field relevant inbound queries from HCPs via established triage process.
• Partner with Global Medical Affairs, Oncology Research & Development, and Global Product Development to identify potential sites for Pfizer-sponsored clinical trials, including sites serving under-represented patient populations.
• 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 and understand principles of study design, methodology, data analysis, and interpretation; communicate these concepts with customers.
• Demonstrate strong territory leadership both reactively and proactively.
• Communicate with local Patient Advocacy Groups, in collaboration with Corporate Affairs and HQ Medical Affairs, and deliver insights on local patient organization structure, capabilities, and needs.
• Serve on Medical and/or therapeutic area and asset cross-functional committees, representing Pfizer Medical Affairs leadership with clinical/professional associations and societies.
• Participate in mentorship as an onboarding partner, ad board and study lead mentor.
• Participate in special projects as needed.

Requirements

• MD or DO degree required.
• 4+ years of relevant experience required.
• Subject matter expert recognized across internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrate diverse leadership experiences and capabilities, including the ability to influence and collaborate with peers to create business impact.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills: ability to understand and respond to multiple external and internal customers’ demands and manage conflict constructively.
• Manage a significant volume of projects in a remote environment, prioritizing effectively and demonstrating excellent judgment.
• Work within a matrixed, multi-disciplinary team to foster strong Pfizer/customer professional relationships aligned with Pfizer Medical objectives.
• Lead and manage change in an evolving external healthcare environment; demonstrate change agility and flexibility to new opportunities (e.g., new therapeutic areas).
• Problem-solve and network enterprise-wide to identify solutions.
• Rapidly adopt and utilize new digital technology and resources with medical customers and record medical interactions.
• Operate a Pfizer company car and maintain flexibility to travel 60-80% of the time (including attending HCP/customer meetings, NYHQ meetings, etc.).
• Proximity to an airline hub city required.
• Ability to work on weekends occasionally (e.g., attend advisory boards and congress meetings).

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise or clinical experience in Malignant Hematology.
• Familiarity with internal/external SOPs, rules, and regulations regarding Pfizer/customer interactions.
• Previous Field Medical experience.
• Demonstrate leadership and teamwork with peers, internal stakeholders, and external customers to inspire alignment on a shared vision or strategy.
• Be a self-starter, accountable, and have a sense of urgency in delivering results with medical impact and a positive customer experience.
• Maintain self-awareness and choose behaviors that positively impact performance and engagement.
• Demonstrate clinical and technical skills.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions and an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution.
• Paid vacation, holiday, and personal days.
• Paid caregiver/parental and medical leave.

Pay

Annual base salary ranges from $230,900 to $384,800. Eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 25% of the base salary and eligibility to participate in the share-based long-term incentive program.

Schedule

• Remote, field-based work location.
• Travel required: 60-80% of the time.
• Occasional weekend work (e.g., attend advisory boards and congress meetings).