Oncology Field Medical Director, Thoracic (Non- MD)

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Role Summary

Lung cancer treatment is evolving rapidly, and the space between emerging evidence and every day clinical practice is where our medical expertise matters most.

As a field-based scientific expert supporting Pfizer’s Thoracic oncology portfolio in New York state, including Manhattan and Long Island, you will engage a broad range of medical customer segments. You will deliver approved medical and scientific education to healthcare professionals, surface insights that inform medical strategy, support the identification of potential clinical trial sites and clinical trial support, and help address the field’s most important unanswered scientific questions in service of improving patient outcomes.

Field Medical: Core Responsibilities • Plan and execute Medical strategy and engagement for appropriate assigned customers 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 customer insights, providing requested information to HCPs as allowed by Pfizer guidance and sharing customer viewpoints with Pfizer as appropriate. • Understand the priorities of Pfizer Medical Affairs in order to contribute to Medical content strategy development and execute aligned Field Medical tactics. • Maintain effective and appropriate communication and collaboration among headquarters Medical colleagues, Medical Information, and other Pfizer Field Medical colleagues. • Demonstrate expertise in communication across multiple channels, including, but not limited to, live and virtual presentations in small or large settings, written communication, and telephone or virtual conversations. • Optimize patient centricity of Medical communications and deliverables, incorporating Health Literacy and cultural awareness principles to ensure that patients remain the ultimate focus.

  Field Medical: Additional Responsibilities • Deliver approved medical content about Pfizer medicines and relevant topics in the designated therapeutic area. • Identify and seek medical engagement from priority customer segments in assigned Therapeutic Area. • Provide truthful, accurate, and scientifically supported information in response to direct unsolicited medical requests from HCPs in a manner that complies with all applicable Pfizer guidelines, policies, and procedures. • Leads advisory boards, working with vendors if necessary, with manager oversight. • Field relevant inbound queries from HCPs via established triage process. • In collaboration with Global Medical Affairs colleagues, partner with Oncology Research & Development and Global Product Development (GPD) in the identification of potential sites for Pfizer-sponsored clinical trials, including identification of sites serving under-represented patient populations in trials. • Appropriately 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. • Provides Asset leadership. • Understand the principles of study design, methodology, data analysis, and interpretation and communicate these concepts with customers. • Lead your territory with an ownership mindset: strategic planning, disciplined prioritization, and full accountability for medical impact in your geography. • Reactively and proactively communicate with local Patient Advocacy Group(s), as appropriate, in close collaboration with Corporate Affairs and HQ Medical Affairs. • Deliver actionable field insights — local patient organization structure, capabilities, patient population needs, real-world treatment patterns, evolving standards of care, and unmet data needs — to inform medical strategy and evidence generation. • 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, consistently demonstrating medical professionalism in all interactions. • Mentorship – Onboarding partner, ad board and study lead mentor. • Participate in special projects as needed.

  Qualifications • Bachelor’s degree in a health science required. • PharmD, PhD, or equivalent terminal doctoral degree (e.g., Doctor of Nursing Practice, Doctor of Physical Therapy) highly preferred. • Relevant experience required: PharmD/PhD with 6 years of experience, MBA/MSc with 8 years of experience, BA/BSc with 10 years of experience. • Subject matter expert recognized across internal and external stakeholders. • Demonstrate a breadth of diverse leadership experiences and capabilities including the ability to influence and collaborate with peers 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 customers’ 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. • Work within a matrixed, multi-disciplinary team to foster strong Pfizer/customer professional relationships which are aligned with Pfizer Medical objectives. • Effectively manage through and lead change in an ever-changing and evolving external health care environment. • Demonstrate change agility; be flexible to new opportunities (e.g. new therapeutic areas) and adaptable to organizational change • Problem-solve and network enterprise wide as appropriate to identify solutions. • Collaborate effectively and demonstrate lead

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