Specialty Care Field Medical, Director, Non-md

Pfizer Pfizer · Pharma · CA · Remote

This role focuses on providing therapeutic area and product expertise to external medical stakeholders within a designated territory. Responsibilities include planning and executing medical strategies, maintaining knowledge of diseases and medicines, serving as a conduit for medical information and insights, and educating stakeholders on disease states and care guidelines. The role also involves collaborating with internal teams on medical content strategy, clinical trial site identification, and supporting investigator-sponsored research. It requires strong scientific communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills, with a focus on optimizing patient care.

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

  • Therapeutic area/product expertise
  • Scientific communication
  • Medical strategy planning
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Knowledge of disease states and medicines
  • Medical information provision
  • Educational content strategy
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Leadership
  • Project management
  • Judgment skills
  • Continuous improvement

Nice to have

  • PharmD, PhD, or equivalent terminal doctoral degree
  • Experience with clinical trial site identification
  • Experience with Investigator Sponsored Research (ISR)

What the JD emphasized

  • Bachelor’s degree in a 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 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