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VP, North America Medical Affairs Lead, Rare Disease

Employer
Pfizer
Location
New York City, New York
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
May 16, 2021

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Discipline
Health Sciences, Medicine
Position Type
Full Time
Job Type
President/CEO/Director/VP
Organization Type
All Industry, Pharma
Vice President, NA Medical Lead, Pfizer Rare Disease is responsible for leading the North America Medical team including both the US and Canada, for both home office medical teams in multiple Rare Disease therapy areas, and a regionwide field medical organization.

The NA medical lead works highly collaboratively with Global Medical leads, other Regional Leads, publications, Medical Excellence, GPD and Commercial leads. The NA leader is an integral member of the Medical Leadership Team for Rare Disease. He/She partners with the NA leads of other BUs on cross-BU medical initiatives. The NA Rare Disease lead is responsible for regional strategy and all NA related functions inclusive of data generation and dissemination and education of key stakeholders and medical experts in the use of our Rare Disease medical products and therapy areas. He/She is expected to build and maintain strong opinion leader relationships engaging in external collaborations in order to gain insight and to facilitate clinical development and life cycle plans.

The leader will ensure a world class team with exceptional regional understanding of the most important global market, exceptional peer and KOL relationships and a superb understanding of the competence and regional access environment. With exceptional asset knowledge this will contribute to the global asset strategy.

The leader will also work with internal partners to leverage operational excellence in the region to ensure timely delivery of major clinical trials, IIRs, RWE and core dissemination activities and continuous data generation. Accountable to build regional medical budget and spend responsibly in alignment with Regional President.

1) Lead NA medical organization

Lead a team to envision a future state of medicine within both Rare Disease and treatment within the region

Innovate and execute within medical affairs organization to meet that vision

Represent the major market for Rare Disease innovation on the CMOs Medical Leadership Team (MLT).

Contribute to, and collaborate with all global Rare Disease activities as part of MLT

Develop and coach medical affairs colleagues to ensure leading performance in medical affairs across North America exceeding benchmarks

2) Develop a Medical Affairs strategy for the region closely partnered with global and ATLs. Key deliverables include:

Medical Affairs Strategy & Plan for all Rare Disease assets in the region including IIR strategy, key data generation and dissemination plans

Strong external engagement to help team succeed

3) Support clinical development plans

Provide with input from the region and collaboration with the following cross functional stakeholders:
  • Global Medical Affairs
  • Global Publications
  • PHI
  • Asset Team leads
  • Global Clinical Leads
  • Regional
  • Commercial Leads


4) Support the development of the global asset lifecycle plans and strategies

Provide input to clinical leaders on paradigm shifts in regional treatment and key competitor activity to guide clinical and commercial development plans in North America.

Ensure commercial forecasts and assumptions reflect product attributes, projected treatment paradigms and unmet medical needs.

Ensure adherence to global policy and procedures for publications

Focus on patient experience and outcomes and bring the patient voice and perspective to internal strategies

Qualifications
  • MD or Equivalent Doctorate degree preferred
  • Specialty in Rare Disease preferred
  • 10+ years' experience in the pharmaceutical industry; 5+ years in Rare Disease
  • Strong oral and written communication skills to interact with internal and external stakeholders
  • Strong interpersonal skills to quickly build rapport and credibility with Pfizer leaders and key external stakeholders
  • Scientific/ translational research background and ability to understand, interpret, and communicate scientific literature
  • Management and leadership skills, with ability to lead matrixed, cross- functional work teams
  • Ability to partner cross culturally/regionally
  • In-depth understanding and experience with study methodology, protocol design, safety evaluation, and data analysis
  • Ability to evaluate budget requests
  • Strong people leadership and management
  • Proven success leading an Rare Disease medical affairs organization, preferably global organization
  • Expert in Rare Disease market dynamics, current treatment landscape across multiple tumor areas and Immuno-Rare Disease
  • Knowledgeable on clinical trial design and execution
  • Strong relationships established with current Rare Disease KOLs and key customers
  • 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.


Travel Requirements : ~30% travel time within the US and Canada

Other Job Details:

Last Date to Apply for Job: May 14, 2021

Additional Location Information: NY is the preferred location for this role.

Candidates based in EST/CT time zone locations will be considered as long as they are willing to travel to NY when needed.

Eligible for Relocation Package

Eligible for Employee Referral Bonus

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