The PIH I & I Business Unit seeks a Sr. Director US Medical Affairs for the Dermatology team. Reporting to the US Dermatology Medical Team Lead, the Sr. Director is an integral member of the US Medical Team. The Sr. Director combines medical expertise and understanding of the patients and physicians point of view with that of the TA Disease Area and Brand. He/she is part of a cross-functional environment where colleagues always understand and exhibit customer-focused medical professionalism with honor and integrity. Sr. Director is the strategic partner and single point of accountability with commercial brand team, and provides medical leadership and strategic inputs to achieve the successful launch of Crisaborole in US. Sr. Director supervises medical directors to develop and execute medical plan, and provide medical support to commercial strategies and operations.
The Sr. Director will develop long-term relationships with a wide variety of key healthcare stakeholders and customers to include Medical Groups and key opinion leaders in order to demonstrate clinical and economic value of Pfizer’s assets in the treatment of dermatology diseases. These activities are implemented to help inform HCPs and formulary decision-makers through medical presentations, pharmacoeconomic analyses, and outcomes evaluations along with MOS and FMD colleagues. Additional customer collaborations are built with the goal of aligning corporate medical priorities with the specific needs of the customer to advance the quality of patient care in areas of mutual interest, to identify provider and/or patient knowledge gaps, and areas for quality improvement interventions. They will develop, in conjunction with dermatology team members, an advanced perspective of the evolving clinical and healthcare landscape of dermatology.
The Sr. Director will utilize his/her understanding of clinical and patient-directed dermatology issues to help assist Pfizer and GMA on most strategic approach to launch of new indications and grow existing indications. The Sr. Director will also provide Pfizer brand teams with customer and clinical insights to assist in informing Pfizer strategies on critical dermatology health issues and facilitate the development of customer-focused tools and medical communications to support patient access to quality medicines.
Responsibilities
1. Strategic oversight the medical leadership and medical strategic input on Crisaborole US launch
2. Single point of accountability of medical support to commercial team to drive successful commercial launch
3. Strategic oversight of presentations of Pfizer data and compliant implementation of strategy into RC and MRC approved materials
4. Oversight for medical strategy for promotional materials
5. Coach and provide medicine(s) or/and therapeutic area expertise to other medical and non-medical cross-functional colleagues including training.
6. Cross functional efforts with constituents from Commercial, MOS, FMD, GH&V, RWD
7. Participate in the medical/scientific assessment of potential business development activities and pre-proof of concept compounds within Pfizer Research as requested
8. Manage vendors, budgets (track/forecast) and personnel (team leaders or matrix leaders)
9. Ability to plan and lead successful advisory boards, congress-related symposia
10. Ability to contribute to scientific, long-term life cycle planning and orphan indications
11. Proactively bring patients' & physicians' voice to brand efforts to provide medicines meeting their needs, on cross-functional teams, while considering the needs of customers, including payers.
12. Understand the product/medicine and the formulation of the concept/strategy and how it relates to the customers’ needs
13. Serve as a reliable, trusted resource of accurate, current medical and scientific knowledge (e.g.: disease states, product label, statistics interpretation etc), including competitive medicines, for internal and external stakeholders and customers
14. Focus on patient and physician concerns, as it applies to the data and disease area. Commits to excellence by continually learning and expanding their expertise
15. Objectively interpret technical and commercial information to deliver value added education to assigned teams. Serve as a translator between technical and commercial functions, driving the transfer and appropriate application of both commercial and clinical knowledge, ideas, and needs
16. Collaborate with Global Medical Affairs, and as appropriate, Commercial Development, Clinical Development, research, and other cross-functional teams in driving US strategic direction for Brand
17. Contribute to the planning and timely, high quality execution of medical tactics across indications to support the US lifecycle plan for Brand
18. Understand and effectively communicate current scientific knowledge, including medical needs, to different stakeholders, including patients, within disease area, customizing the communication for the audience leading to effective communication
19. Establish how the medicine’s profile fits into customer needs and the commercial strategy and compares to competitive medicines, effectively communicating same to various stakeholders, including patients.
20. Lead working groups in a professional, inclusive manner encouraging open discussion as related to assigned activities and specific roles, while demonstrating respect for people.
21. Partner with external medical and scientific leaders in collaboration with field based medical colleagues
Qualifications
• PhD, PharmD or equivalent with 15 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry and/or in clinical practice
• Extensive experience in dermatology
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical space in dermatology
• Extensive experience in Medical Affairs
• Track record of high performance
• Administrative/leadership experience
• Relationship builder within and without Pfizer
• Must believe that no job within the group is a small job
• Team oriented for success
• Regulatory/safety/clinical trial experience a plus
• Demonstrated strong communication skills both interpersonal and written
• Fluency in written and spoken English required; excellent communication/presentation skills
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