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Breast Cancer Team Lead, US Medical Affairs Oncology, MD

Employer
Pfizer
Location
Collegeville, Pennsylvania; Peapack, New Jersey
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
Dec 14, 2021

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Discipline
Life Sciences, Oncology, Health Sciences, Medicine, Cancer Research
Position Type
Full Time
Organization Type
Pharma
Leads the US HQ Breast Cancer Medical team within US across all relevant disease areas and assets including working with global team on Arvenus opportunities. Coordinate with the Global Medical lead and the US and Global leads. Collaborate with relevant cross-functional team members in developing local medical affairs product strategy and ensuring consistency of approach and deliverables. Oversight of the US team to ensure collaboration with global partners. Ensure Medical Affairs colleagues are integrated into individual Brand Teams, manage resources, and ensure that medical affairs plans are successfully developed and executed to achieve short- and long-term objectives.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Medical Affairs plan development and accountability:
    • Lead and oversee medical input into brand strategies and tactics, with a focus on North American (NA) medical affairs needs.
    • Lead the development of medical affairs strategies and tactics and ensure the delivery of these plans
  • Research:
    • Oversee the development of NA specific strategic plans associated with Investigator-Initiated Research, Collaborative studies and any Independent Grants programs.
    • Help lead and be the advocate for Phase IV lifecycle clinical trial strategies and concepts to support NA needs.
    • Review of protocol designs and provide clinical feedback into documents and SOPs including regulatory documents, labelling.
  • Internal Communication: Align the voices of NA and US Medical Affairs, representing the HQ and FMD regional teams in internal forums. Ensure local needs are considered and represented in global strategies and plans as well as development plans. Develop and strengthen partnerships among key stakeholders.
  • MA Alignment: Ensure effective cross-functional alignment in customer facing activities and represent Pfizer externally in the respective Oncology therapeutic area.
  • Medical Affairs Customer Planning: In coordination with cross functional leadership, lead the engagement planning of HQ Medical Directors with the external community including KOLs and other key external stakeholders, to ensure that strategies reflect customer needs.
  • May provide leadership for Customer Insight Planning in terms of advisory boards and other forum through which key customer insights are gathered to assist in planning and execution.
  • Ensure brand teams have appropriate medical affairs support in terms of Promotional Materials Development, Review and Sales Training:
    • Coordinate Medical Affairs support for concept development & promotional material review and sales training.
    • Partner with legal, regulatory and marketing colleagues to ensure Medical Affairs colleagues deliver compliant, accurate and high quality content of all promotional and sales training material & activities.
  • Ensure timely completion of all team training and adherence to compliance standards and procedures.
  • Coordinate, lead and participate in key NA and US Medical Affairs activities including;
    • MA leadership, support, guidance and input for regulatory interactions
    • Safety updates and risk/benefit analyses
    • Strategic Publications and abstract planning
    • Advisory board development and execution
  • Build organizational capability: Build trust among team members and broader stakeholders by setting a highly visible examples of excellence. Actively support development of direct reports, providing insights, direction, and opportunities.
  • Integrate Clinical acumen into strategic planning across work, including patient centered approaches


BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
  • MD or DO with 10 or more years of relevant experience required.
  • Oncology experience
  • Experience with Real World Data
  • Experience with clinical trials
  • HQ launch experience required


PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Direct expertise in Oncology, breast cancer preferred.
  • Highly motivated with demonstrated track record of high performance and producing outstanding results.
  • Capable of comprehending and communicating in a clear, concise manner a large amount of scientific information.
  • Significant, direct experience with matrix leadership and demonstrated ability to work with multiple stakeholders.
  • Proven ability to facilitate open discussion and debate among key stakeholders and build internal and external relationships through partnering, anticipating needs, fulfilling expectations.
  • Very strong strategic skills including creativity and effectiveness in proactively identifying and addressing challenges.
  • Demonstrated leadership excellence, proven ability to motivate and lead people in a complex, changing environment.
  • Well-organized with the ability to be flexible, prioritize multiple demands, and effectively lead in a matrix organization.
  • Ability to lead in a complex matrix, partner appropriately with the commercial teams, lead through others, effective delegation


NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS

Travel should be anticipated and is estimated to be ~25%.

Pfizer requires all U.S. new hires to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 prior to the first date of employment. As required by applicable law, Pfizer will consider requests for Reasonable Accommodations.

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EEO & Employment Eligibility

Pfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status. Pfizer also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA. Pfizer is an E-Verify employer.

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