Specialty Care Field Medical, Director, non-MD

About the role

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

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute independent Medical strategies and engagements for appropriate assigned external medical stakeholders within a territory, compliantly coordinating with other Pfizer colleagues as needed to achieve Medical objectives.
• Maintain required level of knowledge of relevant TA/disease states and Pfizer medicines, providing therapeutic area/product information to both 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 stakeholder as allowed by Pfizer guidance and sharing external medical stakeholder viewpoints with Pfizer as appropriate.
• Understand the priorities of Pfizer Medical Affairs in order to contribute to Medical educational content strategy development and execute aligned Field Medical tactics.
• Optimize patient care improvement in Medical communications and deliverables, incorporating Health Literacy and cultural awareness principles to ensure that patients remain the ultimate focus.
• Deliver insights on local patient organization structure, capabilities, and patient population needs.
• Cultivate research and therapeutic area expertise, including familiarity with latest congress data and disease state literature.
• Represent Pfizer Medical Affairs leadership with clinical/professional associations and/or societies, consistently demonstrating medical professionalism in all interactions.
• Mentorship – Onboarding partner, ad board and study lead mentor. Participate in special projects as needed.

Qualifications

• Candidate demonstrates a breadth of diverse leadership experiences and capabilities including: the ability to influence and collaborate with peers, develop and coach others, oversee and guide the work of other colleagues to achieve meaningful outcomes and create business impact.
• Demonstrate excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills: ability to understand and respond to multiple external and internal stakeholders’ demands and manage and handle conflict constructively.
• Manage a significant volume of projects developed in a remote environment, while exhibiting the ability to prioritize, successfully implement, and demonstrate excellent judgment skills and work in a continuous improvement environment.
• Operate a Pfizer company car and regularly fly on airplanes (i.e. attend external medical stakeholder meetings; attend NYHQ meetings, etc. required; proximity to airline ‘hub’ city); maintain flexibility to travel 40-50% of time.
• Valid US driver’s license and driving record in compliance with company standards.

Skills

• Strong territory leadership.
• Ability to reactively and proactively communicate with local Patient Advocacy Group(s), as appropriate, in close collaboration with Corporate Affairs and HQ Medical Affairs.
• Understand the principles of study design, methodology, data analysis, and interpretation and communicate these concepts with external medical stakeholders.
• Manage a significant volume of projects developed in a remote environment, while exhibiting the ability to prioritize, successfully implement, and demonstrate excellent judgment skills and work in a continuous improvement environment.
• Effectively manage through and lead change in an ever-changing and evolving external health care environment.
• Collaborate effectively and demonstrate leadership and teamwork with peers, internal stakeholders and external medical stakeholders that inspires alignment and partnership on a shared vision or strategy.
• 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.
• Maintain self-awareness and continually choose behaviors and responses based on how it impacts one’s own and others’ performance and engagement.
• Strive to rapidly adopt and utilize new digital technology and other resources with medical external medical stakeholders and record medical interactions.

Benefits

• The annual base salary for this position ranges from $176,600.00 to $294,300.00.
• This position is eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 20.0% of the base salary and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program.
• We offer comprehensive and generous benefits and programs to help our colleagues lead healthy lives and to support each of life’s moments.
• Benefits offered include a 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, and health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage.