Director, Vaccines Clinical Research (md Required)

Pfizer Pfizer · Pharma · New York, NY

Pfizer is seeking a Director of Vaccines Clinical Research (MD required) to provide medical and scientific expertise for clinical trials, ensuring patient safety and overseeing study design, execution, monitoring, delivery, and reporting. The role involves designing development strategies, participating in committees, reviewing compounds for in-licensing, and supporting new business development. Responsibilities include managing safety surveillance, protocol design, study team support, data interpretation, regulatory document authorship, and interactions with regulatory authorities, key opinion leaders, and principal investigators.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provide study team with medical advice for all medical issues during risk assessment and mitigation planning to enable quality, compliance and patient safety at the trial, site and patient level.
  2. Designs clinical studies to meet the stated objectives. Assures that clinical trial objectives fit with the clinical program strategy.
  3. Provides clinical input to protocol/study team for monitoring guidelines, statistics analysis plans, ICDs, clinical review forms, data edit checks, data quality planning, as needed (ultimately oversees work of protocol/study team).
  4. Conducts medical review and interpretation of efficacy and safety data from clinical trials; this may include delivery of top-line report in collaboration with study statistician, and delivery of clinical study report in collaboration with medical writer and accountable for overall quality and timeliness of analysis and reporting.
  5. Authors clinical sections of regulatory documents (Investigator Brochure, Annual Reports, Investigational New Drug sections, clinical study report).

Skills

Required

  • Medical degree (M.D./D.O. or equivalent)
  • 4+ years’ work experience
  • Licensed by a health authority to prescribe medicines
  • Ability to critically evaluate medical/scientific information
  • Understanding of clinical program and study design, development, and execution
  • Documented experience in the pharmaceutical industry related to clinical research

What the JD emphasized

  • Medical degree (M.D./D.O. or equivalent)
  • Licensed by a health authority to prescribe medicines (independent of supervision) for at least two years (post "intern/houseman" year) and has utilized the license to prescribe medicines in a patient care setting for an aggregate duration of at least one year.