Office-based Medical Affairs Scientist - Multiple Teams

MAIN REPONSIBILITIES / DUTIES

JOB POSITION PURPOSE

• The MAS roles are hybrid in responsibilities. Specific roles in teams can vary between 80% field with 20% head office activity to 80% head office activity with 20% field activity. This is a continuum and not fixed and will vary based on business needs. Rarely there may be a role that is 100% Field.
• Be the Pfizer Japan medical scientific point of contact for HCPs, medical societies, regulators, academia and other external stakeholders.
• Play a central role as a scientific and medical leader who can identify unmet medical needs, contribute to building and executing medical plans and establish clinical evidence.

MAIN REPONSIBILITIES:

Demonstrate medical and scientific leadership and expertise

• Ensure the highest scientific standards during in / external activities to provide deep medical and scientific expertise.
• Develop local medical plan aligned with global medical plan to address local unmet medical needs and fill data gaps, and contribute to the implementation of local medical strategies and life cycle clinical plans for inline and pipeline medicines / vaccines.
• Provide and exchange medical/scientific information for/from medical facilities in the assigned area and external stakeholders and make important contributions to decisions of medical strategies for assigned products, to ensure safe, proper, and effective uses of assigned products. These activities contribute to patients and healthcare professionals from medical, pharmaceutical, and clinical study’s perspective.
• Drive for heightened understanding of the burden of disease in the assigned therapeutic area and medical attributes of our products to enhance the safe and efficacious use.
• Contribute to achieving the department/team goals, and/or participate in cross-organizational projects as a core member and provide guidance to deliver the results.

Develop and Execute Medical Plan aligned with medical strategy to meet unmet medical needs in the assigned product(s) and therapeutic area(s)

• Identify unmet medical needs and healthcare disparities in the assigned asset(s) and therapeutic area(s), and execute customer facing medical activities including unbiased medical and scientific communication with HCPs and other relevant individuals and organizations, medical advisory board meetings, educational seminars, and data generation initiatives, medical materials creation and necessary scientific input.
• Create an activity plan with senior medical management to address unmet needs and data gaps.
• Develop a Customer Facing part of Medical Plan in the therapeutic area(s) and asset(s) to establish collaborative scientific relationships with stakeholders.
• Providing subject matter expertise and high-quality scientific exchange, bringing in insights (formally and informally) into the organization to shape strategy.

Collaborate with medical stakeholders’ management as a scientific expert for HCPs, medical societies, academia, etc.

• Establish a strong collaborative scientific relationship through non-promotional activities such as scientific exchanges (e.g., discussion using the latest research papers and follow-up of contents of academic conference presentations) with relevant stakeholders in the assigned area.
• Maintain a comprehensive stakeholder map to identify relevant HCPs, medical societies, and other relevant external stakeholders. And to communicate effectively and agilely at an expert level.
• Follow up clinical investigator-sponsored research and medical grants compliant with Pfizer policies.

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Acquire and maintain extensive, up-to-date medical and pharmaceutical information in the assigned area to identify unmet needs and support medical strategy.
• Deliver key medical and scientific activities within the medical plan, e.g., high-quality educational materials, generation of real-world evidence, non-interventional studies, database studies and registries (in collaboration with the Health & Value team) and ensure timely publication of data.

Establish a highly reliable, long-term relationship with stakeholders

• Enhance opportunities for creation of evidence based on medical needs by sharing customer insights with internal/external stakeholders through constructive and cross-functional partnership.
• Optimize patient centricity of medical communications and deliverables, incorporating Health Literacy and cultural awareness principles to ensure that patients remain the ultimate focus.
• Establish deep and enduring peer-to-peer scientific relationships with leading HCPs and specialists, including non-traditional partners and key decision makers.
• Maintain and enhance the cross-BU alignment on metrics.
• Ensure to collect necessary information and analyze insights prior to the meetings to provide deep medical and scientific expertise to stakeholders and HCPs.

Aligns, contributes, and collaborates with Relevant internal stakeholders

• Provide information on expert / HCP / relevant feedback on product life cycle strategies to related divisions/department in the company.
• Share the medical/scientific information & insights within appropriate limits/ways for Marketing colleagues to develop brand plan(s).
• Scientific input for scientific meetings and materials
• Provide medical education programs with medical societies or relevant stakeholders.

Collaboration in clinical development

• Provide medical/scientific input into protocol feasibility assessments for clinical trial proposals.
• Collaborate with Development Japan (DJ)/global development to identify appropriate investigators / sites for Pfizer-sponsored clinical trials.
• Work together with clinical research/DJ colleagues and in collaboration with above country and global BU colleagues to drive the timely completion of Pfizer-sponsored clinical trials.
• Demonstrate scientific / medical leadership and provide input into the global clinical teams and DJ to ensure design and selection of trials relevant to Japan’s needs, leveraging customer and patient insights Supporting DJ on clinical development program as well as regulatory interactions from early development phase.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of product(s)/therapeutic area(s) medical strategy and delivering medical and scientific advice both internally and externally to assure appropriate use of product(s) and patient’s safety aligned with the short- and long-term business goals of assigned product(s)/therapeutic area(s).

Data communication and customer insights

• Provide accurate, high-quality, and unbiased medical information to HCPs and external experts, including managing unsolicited medical requests (UMRs).
• Provide scientific insight and support to field- and head office based commercial colleagues.
• Collaborate with the cross functional team in-country and above-country to develop impactful and compliant promotional and non-promotional materials of value to customers.
• Collect and share insights from HCPs and stakeholders to inform medical strategy and business opportunities.
• Manage local advisory boards to gain customer insights.
• If media-trained, present the scientific perspective on selected topics during media-briefings.

Observe the code of conduct, company’s regulations, and compliance, make communication with related departments, and exercise leadership in POJ.

• Ensure awareness of code of contact for Medical Affairs (guidance for external medical interactions) and observe it. Give promotional or non-promotional explanations depending on the related departments.
• Conduct activities in compliance with the MHLW Guidelines for Prescription Drug Sales Information Activities.

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Ensure activities and communications are conducted in compliance with all policies, guidelines, and regulations.

Ensure awareness of responsibility for reporting adverse events

• For all Pfizer products, observe applicable laws/regulations and the Pfizer policy, and “Gather and report safety information*.” At an appropriate time, attend training programs on obligation of assigned safety reporting.

AS NEEDED:

• Contribute to Business Development in the assigned area(s): In collaboration with Japan Medical Lead, Japan Medical Product Lead, Global MA members and other members from relevant functions, identify unmet medical needs and candidate therapies for potential medical interventions in the assigned therapeutic area(s) in Japan through medical activities such as advisory boards and consultations with medical experts while keeping confidentiality.
• Rapidly respond to critical supply issues from a medical perspective (e.g., rapid communications with academic societies and regulatory authorities).

REQUIRED SKILL SET

Education:

Minimum requirement

• 4-year university undergraduate degree AND master’s degree in life science, or
• Pharmacists
  • 4-year university graduates with pharmacist license and master’s degree or equivalent life science research experience, or
  • 6-year university graduates with pharmacist license, or
• Nurses with a master’s degree, or
• Veterinarians, or
• Dentists, or
• MDs

Preferred

• In addition to those who meet the minimum requirementsabove, the qualifications below are preferred.
• MD (clinical experience, board certification preferred), or
• PhD in Life Science

Technical Skills:

• Medical/ pharmaceutical expert knowledge of therapeutic disease area/ products
• Ability to communicate appropriately and build good relationships with internal/external stakeholders.
• Collaborate effectively with teams and across functions by demonstrating Pfizer’s Values & Behaviors and the agility to learn from others.
• Capable of medical discussion with relevant departments and external HCPs.
• A person who understands compliance and relevant laws/regulations in the pharmaceutical industry and advocates the appropriate use of the products.
• Can demonstrate appropriate knowledge and understanding of internal organization structure, key stakeholders and strategies.
• A person who can quickly acquire necessary medical/ scientific knowledge and skills through self-learning.

Experience:

• MA/DJ experience and / or research experience preferred.

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Scientific publication experience preferred.

Language:

• Able to understand written and spoken English and Japanese in assigned therapeutic disease area, and scientific interactions.
• Minimum TOEIC score of 730

 

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