Director Medical Affairs

Lead the medical strategy and execution for Pfizer’s Immunology & Inflammation portfolio (Dermatology, Rheumatology, Gastroenterology) in Germany, ensuring scientific excellence, evidence generation, stakeholder engagement, and launch readiness while improving outcomes for patients with immune-mediated diseases. This visible leadership role combines deep immunology expertise, strategic thinking, organizational transformation, people leadership, and external influence to strengthen Pfizer’s scientific leadership position in Germany — reflected in high-quality evidence, non-interventional study execution, launch readiness across the pipeline, effective collaboration with GSSO and the International Medical organization, and speedy recruitment.

Strategy & Vision

• Define the multi-year Medical Affairs strategy for Pfizer’s Immunology & Inflammation portfolio in Germany, aligned with the Strategic Roadmap 2030, country medical priorities, and the global strategy, building a focused Medical organization while maintaining clear medical independence and compliance boundaries.

• Establish Pfizer’s Immunology & Inflammation Medical Affairs as the trusted scientific voice in the therapeutic area, shaping a clear medical impact narrative.

• Drive scientific differentiation through evidence generation, medical storytelling, and stakeholder engagement.

• Translate global medical priorities into impactful local execution.

• Generate actionable insights to inform medical and cross-functional decision-making.

Ecosystem Leadership

• Build trusted partnerships across the clinical recruitment ecosystem, including HCPs, KOLs, patient organizations, professional societies, payers, policy makers, public-health institutions, digital-health stakeholders, and academic networks.

• Shape the Immunology & Inflammation portfolio landscape in Germany through engagement with relevant healthcare decision-makers, using systematic insight generation to translate healthcare-system needs and patient-journey gaps into actionable medical priorities.

Scientific Leadership, Evidence Generation & Clinical Studies

• Own the Medical Plan and integrated evidence strategy, leading generation, interpretation, and communication of scientific evidence — real-world evidence, epidemiology, investigator-sponsored research, medical education, and publications — where applicable and compliant.

• Collaborate with the International Medical organization, global medical, clinical development, HEOR, access, and regulatory colleagues to ensure local insights inform broader planning and are aligned across markets.

• Closely collaborate with GSSO on clinical study execution in Germany, including Country Outreach, study-site identification, and recruitment based on local scientific and healthcare-system insights.

• Utilize advanced analytics and AI-enabled insight synthesis to accelerate scientific impact, improve diagnosis rates and patient outcomes, and support healthcare-system decision-making.

• Lead and oversee non-interventional studies and real-world evidence initiatives (registries) in Germany, including study design input, feasibility, site engagement, recruitment acceleration, protocol-related operational alignment, data interpretation, and publication planning.

• Translate clinical trial, real-world, and observational study data into compelling scientific narratives for external engagement, internal decision-making, access-relevant discussions, congress activities, abstracts, manuscripts, and medical education.

Market Access (Medical/Scientific Support)

• Provide medical/scientific support on market access strategies and benefit dossiers, owning the medical evidence and scientific-narrative input, anticipating added-benefit evidence gaps and supporting data generation to close them, in partnership with Access & Value.

Launch & Pipeline Excellence

• Lead Medical launch readiness across the significant innovative pipeline and key indication extensions, ensuring Medical Affairs and Field Medical scientific readiness across the product lifecycle.

• Drive differentiation through evidence generation, medical storytelling, and scientific engagement.

Leadership & Talent

• Build, develop, and inspire a high-performing Medical team across Medical Affairs and Field Medical (MAS), fostering a culture of accountability, inclusion, innovation, and collaboration.

• Attract, retain, and grow top scientific talent through succession planning and development, dedicating a substantial share of leadership time to coaching, feedback, and clear prioritization.

• Drive alignment within the Medical Leadership Team to share capabilities and drive joint success across therapeutic areas.

AI, Innovation & Medical Transformation

• Champion responsible, compliant use of AI — with human oversight of AI-generated outputs — and build AI fluency and sound scientific judgment across the team.

• Simplify ways of working and eliminate low-value activities to maximize time for scientific exchange and patient impact.

Compliance & Scientific Integrity

• Ensure compliance with all legal, regulatory, and Pfizer policy requirements — upholding the non-promotional boundary, scientific integrity, pharmacovigilance, medical governance, and balanced scientific communication.

What You'll Bring

Basic Qualifications

• Significant Medical Affairs leadership experience in pharma/biotech, with profound experience in Immunology & Inflammation  (Dermatology, Rheumatology and Gastroenterology) portfolio strongly preferred

• Medical degree or equivalent advanced scientific qualification required

• Proven track record in evidence generation, scientific communication, stakeholder engagement, launch excellence, and lifecycle management

• Proven experience leading non-interventional studies, real-world evidence generation, study feasibility, site engagement, recruitment acceleration, and publication planning in a German Medical Affairs environment

• People-management experience, including direct team leadership mandatory

• Fluent business and medical English; German (native or C1-level) mandatory

Scientific & Technical Expertise

• Strong scientific credibility and Medical Affairs expertise, with the ability to engage external experts confidently, and a good understanding of clinical research, real-world evidence, medical governance, healthcare systems, and regulatory requirements

• Deep expertise in immune-mediated inflammatory diseases, with the ability to translate clinical and real-world study data into actionable Medical Affairs strategy across Dermatology, Rheumatology, and Gastroenterology-relevant disease areas.

• Strong understanding of German healthcare, access, regulatory, data privacy, pharmacovigilance, and compliance requirements relevant to Medical Affairs, clinical research, and evidence generation.

• Comfort with digital and AI-enabled ways of working, including critical review of AI-generated outputs in a regulated setting

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience collaborating with clinical operations or GSSO on study-site identification, Country Outreach, or clinical study recruitment

• Strong understanding of the German Immunology & Inflammation  portfolio landscape, including stakeholders, policy, and access

• Established external scientific network with national KOLs, academic centers, study sites, professional societies, and relevant healthcare stakeholders in Germany.

• Experience driving responsible AI adoption and digital transformation in Medical Affairs to improve insight generation, evidence communication, operational efficiency, and team capability building in a regulated environment.

• Demonstrated success leading complex matrix organizations and high-performing teams through transformation

• Strategic mindset with the ability to turn priorities into clear, disciplined execution, and to lead teams through ambiguity, complexity, and change

• Strong partnership, influencing, and communication skills with internal and external stakeholders

• People leader with demonstrated experience in coaching, talent development, performance management, succession planning, team engagement  and building a culture of scientific excellence, accountability and trust

• Sound judgement and accountability in scientific, compliant, and patient-focused decision-making

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