
Director, Internal Medicine Field Medical – Migraine
Pfizer
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Arizona • New Mexico • United States
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Salary
💰 $230,900 - $366,400 per year
Job Level
About the role
- 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.
- Maintain effective and appropriate scientific communication and collaboration among headquarters Medical colleagues, Medical Information, and other Pfizer Field Medical colleagues.
- Demonstrate expertise in scientific 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 care improvement in Medical communications and deliverables, incorporating Health Literacy and cultural awareness principles to ensure that patients remain the ultimate focus.
- Conduct all activities in accordance with all relevant policies, procedures and compliance guidance.
- Educate external medical stakeholders based on patient care gaps and aligned to medical strategy with the goal of enhancing understanding of disease state and guideline-based care and improve overall patient care.
- Achieve leadership-defined expectations regarding the number of external medical stakeholders engaged.
- Deliver approved medical content about Pfizer medicines and relevant topics in the designated therapeutic area.
- Identify and seek medical scientific engagement from priority external medical stakeholder segments in assigned Therapeutic Area.
- Provide truthful, accurate, and scientifically supported information in response to direct unsolicited medical requests from external medical stakeholders in a manner that complies with all applicable Pfizer guidelines, policies, and procedures.
- Leads advisory boards (BRF, Vendor) with manager oversight. Field relevant inbound queries from external medical stakeholders via established triage process.
- In collaboration with US and/or Global Medical Affairs colleagues, partner with IM/SC 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.
- Serve as a Medical resource to HQ Medical Affairs, other Field Medical colleagues, and external Therapeutic Area investigators and researchers as appropriate.
- 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.
Requirements
- MD or DO Degree required
- 4 years of relevant experience required
- 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 stakeholders’ demands and manage and handle conflict constructively.
- Demonstrate ability to 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/external medical stakeholder 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 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.
Benefits
- Health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage.
- 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions.
- Additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution.
- Paid vacation, holiday and personal days.
- Paid caregiver/parental and medical leave.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
MD DegreeDO DegreeMedical strategy developmentScientific communicationPatient care improvementMedical content deliveryClinical trial site identificationInvestigator Sponsored Research (ISR) supportHealth Literacy principlesTherapeutic area expertise
Soft Skills
LeadershipCollaborationInfluencingOral communicationWritten communicationInterpersonal skillsProject managementChange agilityProblem-solvingSelf-starter