Medical Affairs Scientist (MAS) (Contractor)

Based in Ankara

HOW WE IMPACT PATIENTS

Medical Affairs is an area within the Pharmaceutical Industry (Medical Department) that has medical and scientific professionals who represent the real-world clinical needs of patients, healthcare professionals and other decision makers across internal departments and leads the generation, dissemination, and discussion of unbiased clinical and scientific information about medicines and vaccines to the healthcare community. Their forward-looking strategy across the product lifecycle and diverse functional groups acts to advance patient care and health and medicines/vaccines literacy.

HOW YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE

The MAS is the companies’ Point of Contact on the assigned therapeutic area [TA] for HCPs, medical societies, regulators, academia and other external and internal [scientific] stakeholders during the entire life cycle of a TA product

The MAS is responsible for maintaining the highest scientific standards, that is objective, balanced, and compliant in every medical/scientific external activity, as well as in scope with internal processes.

MAS contributes to data generation plans for pipeline assets and products and supports clinical trial conduction in the therapeutic area in country.

MAS effectively works in cross-functional teams and communicates customer insights to inform medical and brand strategies.

The key responsibilities in this role include:

Core components:

To provide deep medical & scientific expertise to support healthcare professionals, professional associations, patient groups and other relevant decision makers. This includes the following:

• Develop and deliver the local medical strategy and life-cycle clinical plans for Pfizer’s inline and pipeline medicines in nominated therapy area

• Communicate the safe and appropriate use and the value of Pfizer medicines in order to improve patient outcomes, enhance clinical practice and support business needs at the national, regional and corporate level

• Demonstrate the value of our innovative medicines, e.g. through real world evidence

• Create industry leading digital educational and scientific content that is timely, relevant, balanced, interactive, innovative and easily digestible

• Champion the patient voice when developing and implementing medical strategies

• Provide subject matter expertise and high-quality scientific exchange, bringing in insights (both formally with CRM tools and informally) into the organization to shape strategy

• Provide focused, relevant information in response to clinician needs and the needs of their patients

• Establish Pfizer as a key research partner within National Life Sciences

• Establish deep and lasting relationships with healthcare professionals and other relevant decision makers

• Create constructive and effective cross-functional partnerships with internal departments and external stakeholders

• Review and approve (where applicable) medical materials and activities within scope of the MoH, AIFD and company codes

Partnerships

• Provide medical & scientific expertise to healthcare professionals, professional associations, patient groups and other relevant decision makers through scientific communications

• Establish Pfizer as a key research partner within National Life Sciences by building academic and research collaborations within the nominated therapy area

• Establish deep and enduring peer-to-peer relationships with leading healthcare professionals and specialists, including non-traditional partners and key decision makers

• Understand clinicians’ insights around current standard of care and strengthen their knowledge of the value of our medicines to the patients and decision makers

• Liaise with healthcare professionals to effectively communicate and manage drug safety issues

• Provide specialist medical and scientific input to the nominated internal teams in order to support the appropriate use of Pfizer medicines and successful implementation of Pfizer’s initiatives and programs

Data Generation and Publications

• Identifies data gaps for pipelines assets and develops local RWD/RWE for the demonstration of the value of our products and market access.  

• Acquire and maintain in-depth scientific expertise of Pfizer medicines within nominated therapy area as well as of key competitors (including those in development)

• 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

• Provide medical expertise to evaluate requests to support medical education, quality improvement, health services research, investigator sponsored research (ISR) and clinical research collaborations

Clinical Development

• Provide medical/scientific input into protocol feasibility assessments for clinical trial proposals

• Identify appropriate investigators / sites for Pfizer-sponsored clinical trials

• Work together with clinical research colleagues and in collaboration with global teams to drive the timely completion of Pfizer-sponsored clinical trials

• Provide input into clinical development teams to ensure design and selection of trials relevant to Turkey needs, leveraging clinician, payer and patient insights

• Effectively implement approved compassionate use and named patient supply programs to ensure appropriate access to Pfizer medicines in response to clinician requests

Data Communication and Medical Insights

• Present high-quality, accurate, balanced and specific information to healthcare professionals and other relevant decision makers in response to unsolicited requests for information

• Create industry leading and impactful scientific and medical content through a range of digital channels and formats that is timely, relevant, balanced, interactive, innovative and easily digestible. This may include videos, webinars, interactive pdfs, peer reviewed publications, congress materials, clinical trials and real-world data

• Ensure medical insights are brought into the organization to shape future strategies

• Lead local advisory boards to gain clinical and patient insights

• Work with patients and patient organizations to understand unmet medical need and to ensure the patient voice is at the center of medical strategies and projects

• Present the medical perspective on selected topics during media briefings

• Provide scientific insights and support to field and head office based commercial colleagues

• Review and approve (where applicable) medical materials and activities within scope of the MoH, AIFD and company codes

Cross Functional Medical Activity

• Provide medical expertise into regulatory and market access strategies for pipeline assets, including early licensing & access schemes, regulatory and HTA submissions and adaptive pathways

• Provide medical expertise for regulatory labelling updates, risk management plans and license maintenance

• Provide clinical input to Medical Information to facilitate the maintenance of an accurate, relevant and high-quality database of standard response documents/creation of new responses

• Develop and maintain strong cross-functional working between global and local country teams

• Identifies opportunities for customer focused digital solutions and contributes to their creation in partnership with MAS/Digital Medical.

• Performs the medical customer facing activities for the assigned products, according to the priorities defined with the Manager, and liaises with the other medical colleagues, if applicable

• Review and sign-off to ensure compliance of promotional materials and company sponsored activities such as local promotional meetings and events with local SPCs and requirements.

• Works closely with the MAEL, MAS/Digital Medical, the MAS/Real World Data Expert, the Medical Quality Governance Manager (MQGM), Compliance, Legal and all cross-functional team, including customer-facing roles

WHAT WE EXPECT

• University degree from Medicine, Pharmacy with PHD (Already holds a Medical Manager or MSL position within Pfizer Medical Organization)

• Understanding in the following areas:

  • Medical plans and budget management

  • Medical governance and cross-functional teams’ collaboration

  • Medical writing and comprehensive medical review of documents

  • Communication skills to different stakeholders and across different channels

  • External engagement competencies, including networking and stakeholders mapping & management

• Performance driven with professional demeanor and strong collaboration skills

• Ability to focus on priorities, resilience, organization, and project management competencies

• Sense of responsibility and accountability, quality orientation

• Strategic, agile, innovative and growth mindset

• Language Requirements: Fluent in Turkish and English

Preferred qualifications

• Pharmaceutical industry experience within medical affairs

• Good knowledge of the national healthcare and medicine funding/reimbursement systems

• Knowledge of health economics, pharmacovigilance and regulatory affairs

• Experience in RWD/RWE generation in healthcare

• Experience in clinical research

• Located in Ankara

Personal skills:

• Performance driven with professional demeanor

• Strong team working capabilities and ability to function across diverse cultures and geographies

• Customer oriented mindset

• Ability to act in midst of uncertainty

• Self-management & ability to manage heavy workload

• ’Can do’ & pioneering attitude, solution driven

• Sense of responsibility and accountability, quality orientation

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT

At Pfizer, we invest in creating an environment which unleashes the power of our people. Some of our key drivers:

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - Everyone has something to offer. We believe that a diverse and inclusive organization is crucial to building a successful organization. Pfizer is committed to celebrating this in all its forms ensuring we are as diverse as the patients and communities we serve.

When you grow, We Grow! - All colleagues are empowered to unleash their full potential, delivering on our company purpose through non-linear career paths, made of a diverse set of experiences.

Health & Wellbeing– We empower our colleagues to better care for themselves and make new investments to help them manage their mental and physical well-being. Ensuring an environment where colleagues can unleash their power and bring joy at work is one of our focus areas.

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