Specialty Care Field Medical, Director, Non-md

Pfizer Pfizer · Pharma · TN · Remote

This role is for a Specialty Care Field Medical Director at Pfizer, responsible for providing therapeutic area and product expertise to external medical stakeholders within an assigned territory. The role involves planning and executing medical strategies, maintaining knowledge of disease states and medicines, serving as a conduit for medical information and insights, and contributing to medical educational content strategy. It also includes educating stakeholders on disease states and care guidelines, identifying sites for clinical trials, and supporting Investigator Sponsored Research. The position requires strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with a focus on optimizing patient care and adhering to all company policies and compliance guidance.

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

  • Bachelor’s degree in a health science
  • PharmD, PhD, or equivalent terminal doctoral degree (e.g., Doctor of Nursing Practice, Doctor of Physical Therapy)
  • 5+ years of experience (PharmD/PhD)
  • 7+ years of experience (MBA/MSc)
  • 8+ years of experience (BA/BSc)
  • Subject matter expertise
  • Leadership experience
  • Influencing and collaboration skills
  • Coaching and development skills
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Project management skills
  • Prioritization skills
  • Judgment skills
  • Continuous improvement mindset

Nice to have

  • Field Medical experience
  • Therapeutic area expertise
  • Knowledge of Pfizer medicines
  • Medical Information expertise
  • Clinical trial site identification
  • Investigator Sponsored Research support
  • Patient Advocacy Group engagement
  • Cross-functional committee participation
  • Clinical/professional association representation
  • Mentorship experience

What the JD emphasized

  • health science required
  • PharmD, PhD, or equivalent terminal doctoral degree (e.g., Doctor of Nursing Practice, Doctor of Physical Therapy) highly preferred
  • Relevant experience required: PharmD/PhD with 5+ years of experience, MBA/MSc with 7+ years of experience, BA/BSc with 8+ years of experience
  • 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 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