Specialty Care Field Medical, Director, Md

Pfizer Pfizer · Pharma · TN · Remote

The Specialty Care Field Medical Director provides therapeutic area and product expertise to external medical stakeholders in an assigned territory. Responsibilities include planning and executing medical strategies, maintaining knowledge of disease states and medicines, serving as a conduit for medical information and insights, developing medical educational content, and ensuring all activities comply with Pfizer policies and guidance. The role involves educating stakeholders on disease states and care guidelines to improve patient outcomes, identifying potential sites for clinical trials, and supporting the Investigator Sponsored Research process. The candidate must have an MD or DO degree, relevant experience, strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, and the ability to manage projects in a remote, matrixed environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Understand the priorities of Pfizer Medical Affairs in order to contribute to Medical educational content strategy development and execute aligned Field Medical tactics
  5. Maintain effective and appropriate scientific communication and collaboration among headquarters Medical colleagues, Medical Information, and other Pfizer Field Medical colleagues

Skills

Required

  • MD or DO Degree
  • Therapeutic area expertise
  • Product knowledge
  • Medical strategy planning
  • External stakeholder engagement
  • Scientific communication
  • Leadership
  • Collaboration
  • Project management
  • Change management

Nice to have

  • Health Literacy principles
  • Cultural awareness principles
  • Clinical trial site identification
  • Investigator Sponsored Research support
  • Patient Advocacy Group engagement

What the JD emphasized

  • 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, develop and coach others, oversee and guide the work of other colleagues to achieve meaningful outcomes 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
  • 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 organiza