PURPOSE

• Sr. Medical Affairs Scientist (MAS) main role is to create and implement strategies, to build and develop enduring peer-to-peer relationships with healthcare professionals and institutions, creating constructive, cross-functional partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to generate customer insights and leverage business opportunities. Provide medical support that is aligned and integrated to the overall strategy for the MSA within the Inflammation & Immunology Therapeutic Area (TA) brand operating and clinical plans.

SCOPE

Scope of Sr. MAS includes, but is not limited to;

• Planning and implementation of customer facing medical initiatives
  • Establishing KOL &medical societies relationships
  • Medical to Medical communications
  • Medical Meetings (ex. Advisory boards, Scientific exchange meetings etc.
• Medical expert in responsible TA/ brand
  • Data generation (ex. Non-interventional studies, Investigator Sponsored Research, Research Collaborations etc.)
  • Internal training regarding relevant therapeutic areas, and products
  • Supply medical insight for product life-cycle management
  • Medical representative for Country TA/brand initiatives
  • Country representative for TA/brand global initiatives

Geographic area covered by the role

Korea

REPORTING LINE

• The Sr. Medical Affairs Scientist reports to Inflammation & Immunology (I&I) Medical Lead

RESOURCES MANAGED

• Resource related to Medical Activities may be managed by this role

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES / DUTIES

• As a Customer Facing Medical role, create and implement strategies to build and develop enduring peer-to-peer relationships with healthcare professionals (HCPs) and institutions, and create cross-functional partnerships with internal and external stakeholders through scientific communication to gather customer intelligence and insights and leverage business opportunities
  • Ensure effective customer and medical/clinical environment mapping to guide in Medical interactions
  • Create Medical to Medical Interaction Plan & actively interact with in individual scientific leaders in the field
  • Support the creation of partnerships with relevant Medical Societies, government agencies, and other industry groups
  • Exchange high-quality, accurate, well-balanced, and directed scientific information with customers and stakeholders in response to unsolicited medical requests
  • In response to unsolicited medical requests for information, communicating scientific data on TA portfolio including off label indications and on compounds in development where specifically requested
  • Ensure customer intelligence and insights are fed back into organization to aid internal strategies and leveraging of business opportunities
  • Act as bridge between Pfizer scientists and other internal resources and external HCP and independent researchers to facilitate scientific collaborations

• Support Medical and Brand Strategies
  • Development/ implementation of strategy, tactics and operating plan at country level to ensure plans are successfully developed and executed to achieve short- and long-term objectives in alignment with global, regional and local medical and brand goals
  • In compliance and close coordination with medical team/ Medical Lead, develop and implement key medical projects and initiatives to enhance proper dissemination of medical and scientific information
  • Collaborate with team; (Sr.) Medical Manager, Medical Lead in management of medical initiatives including local advisory boards, scientific exchange meetings, medical lead symposia, etc.
  • Collaborate with (Sr.) Medical Manager/Medical Lead and communicate with HCPs based on medical strategies by initiation and implementation of local non-interventional studies (NIS), management of post-marketing surveillance (PMS), and risk management plan (RMP); investigator-sponsored research (ISR) opportunities; support for local feasibilities of phase 1-4 clinical trials
  • Medical leadership and insight for crossfunctional initiatives; medical input for regulatory, access, commercial etc. initiatives
  • Support collaborations internally with commercial TA teams; internal training, medical input for material review, etc.
• Support Data Generation
  • Collaborate with local study operations & RWE/NIS teams for successful data generation through non-interventional studies including regulatory post marketing surveillance
  • Support coordination & investigator communications for Investigator Sponsored Research (ISR), Research Collaborations (CRC) & CTP (Compound Transfer Program)s
• Develop and maintain medical expertise in responsible therapeutic area
• Act as Customer Facing Medical Role expert; supporting onboarding, training and development of junior Medical colleagues

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Medical, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, nursing, life science or other relevant advanced degree
• Experience in Medical Affairs and/or Customer Facing Medical role (3+ years preferred)
• In-depth knowledge of responsible therapeutic areas and the relevant medicines
• Good understanding of drug development process, including clinical research, regulatory approval, pricing & reimbursement, pharmacovigilance, etc.
• Good understanding of compliance framework for medical activities in relation to local regulations and internal regulations, e.g. Pharmaceutical Affairs Law, KRPIA Code of Conduct, Pfizer Green Guide
• Good understanding of the local health care policy and environment
• Ability to understand and critically evaluate clinical study protocols, reports, and scientific/medical publications
• Highly developed interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills
• Fluency in Korean

Fluency in business English strongly preferred

Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.