Director, Clinical Pharmacology

Pfizer
Collegeville, Pennsylvania, United States;Groton, Connecticut, United States;
Competitive
October 05 2022
4864502
Full Time
Pharma
Why Patients Need You

Pfizer's Worldwide Medical and Safety colleagues play a key role in connecting evidence based medical decision support with colleagues and stakeholders to enable better health and treatment outcomes. Whether you are creating framework necessary to ensure our evidence is scientifically sound, providing unbiased, medically necessary expertise or investigating how to close gaps in data, our mission is simple. Empower healthcare decisions regarding the safe and appropriate use of medicines for patients.

Position Summary

You will join a team of scientists supporting late stage programs in the Internal Medicine therapy area. You will be the primary Clinical Pharmacology Lead providing clinical pharmacology expertise to a multidisciplinary project team for one or more late stage Internal Medicineprograms .

Role Responsibilities


  • Act as Clinical Pharmacology representative providing clinical pharmacology expertise to a multidisciplinary study team for one or more late-stage Internal Medicine programs.
  • Participate in implementing model-informed drug development using quantitative approaches to address questions arising during drug development (including dose selection, clinical trial design, special population dosing, benefit/risk assessment).
  • Work closely with clinicians, statisticians, and clinical operations colleagues to design, conduct and report results of Clinical Pharmacology trials.
  • Accountable for non-compartmental analysis of PK data and accountable for ensuring appropriate PK-PD analysis including population PK, PK-PD modeling and simulation, meta-analysis, etc.
  • Interpret PK and PK/PD data and integrate this knowledge into the clinical trials and the overall clinical program.
  • Provide the clinical pharmacology components of protocols, clinical development plans and regulatory documents.
  • Influences environment outside of Pfizer through methods such as publications and presentations.


Minimum Requirements

  • PhD or PharmD with 8+ years of drug development experience
  • Experience with model-informed drug development, interpreting PK and PK/PD data and integrating this knowledge into the clinical trial and overall clinical program
  • Clinical drug development experience in Internal Medicine or other therapeutic areas
  • Strong quantitative pharmacology skills including hands-on experience in the implementation of common software tools (e.g., NONMEM, R) for PK and PK/PD analyses.
  • Strong communication skills--written, verbal and presentation


Must demonstrate 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.

Relocation support available

Work Location Assignment:Flexible

Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.

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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