Oncology Field Medical Director (MD)

Oncology Field Medical Director, Malignant Hematology

The Oncology Field Medical Director, Malignant Hematology is responsible for providing therapeutic area/product expertise, including hematology and pipeline, across a broad range of medical customer segments and initiatives in an assigned territory (which may include Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Washington DC, West Virginia).

Field Medical Core Responsibilities

• Plan and execute medical strategy and engagement for appropriate assigned customers within a territory, compliantly coordinating with other Pfizer colleagues as needed to achieve medical objectives
• Maintain required level of knowledge of relevant therapeutic areas/disease states and Pfizer medicines, providing therapeutic area/product information to both internal and external stakeholders as needed
• Serve as a conduit and resource for medical information and customer insights, providing requested information to HCPs as allowed by Pfizer guidance and sharing customer viewpoints with Pfizer as appropriate
• Understand the priorities of Pfizer Medical Affairs in order to contribute to medical content strategy development and execute aligned field medical tactics
• Maintain effective and appropriate communication and collaboration among headquarters medical colleagues, medical information, and other Pfizer field medical colleagues

• Demonstrate expertise in communication across multiple channels, including, but not limited to, live and virtual presentations in small or large settings, written communication, and telephone or virtual conversations
• Optimize patient centricity of medical communications and deliverables, incorporating health literacy and cultural awareness principles to ensure that patients remain the ultimate focus

Field Medical Role Responsibilities

• Deliver approved medical content about Pfizer medicines and relevant topics in the designated therapeutic area
• Identify and seek medical engagement from priority customer segments in assigned therapeutic area
• Provide truthful, accurate, and scientifically supported information in response to direct unsolicited medical requests from HCPs in a manner that complies with all applicable Pfizer guidelines, policies, and procedures
• Field relevant inbound queries from HCPs via established triage process
• In collaboration with Global Medical Affairs colleagues, partner with Oncology Research & Development and Global Product Development (GPD) in the identification of potential sites for Pfizer-sponsored clinical trials, including identification of sites serving under-represented patient populations in trials
• Appropriately provide medical support throughout the Investigator Sponsored Research (ISR) process
• Cultivate research and therapeutic area expertise, including familiarity with latest congress data and disease state literature
• Provides asset leadership
• Understand the principles of study design, methodology, data analysis, and interpretation and communicate these concepts with customers
• Strong territory leadership
• Reactively and proactively communicate with local Patient Advocacy Group(s), as appropriate, in close collaboration with Corporate Affairs and HQ Medical Affairs
• Deliver insights on local patient organization structure, capabilities, and patient population needs
• Serve on medical and/or TA and asset cross-functional committees, as appropriate
• Represent Pfizer Medical Affairs leadership with clinical/professional associations and/or societies, consistently demonstrating medical professionalism in all interactions
• Mentorship Onboarding partner, ad board and study lead mentor.
• Participate in special projects as needed

Basic Qualifications

• 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 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 customers' 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/customer 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.
• Change agility; be flexible to new opportunities (e.g. new therapeutic areas) and adaptable to organizational change.
• Problem-solve and network enterprise wide as appropriate to identify solutions
• Rapidly adopt and utilize new digital technology and other resources with medical customers and record medical interactions.
• Demonstrate excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Operate a Pfizer company car and regularly fly on airplanes (i.e. attend HCP/customer meetings; attend NYHQ meetings, etc. required; proximity to airline 'hub' city); maintain flexibility to travel 60-80% of time.

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise/clinical experience in Malignant Hematology
• Familiarity with internal/external SOPs/Rules/Regulations regarding Pfizer/customer interactions and relationships, etc.
• Previous Field Medical experience.
• Collaborate effectively and demonstrate leadership and teamwork with peers, internal stakeholders and external customers that inspires alignment and partnership on a shared vision or strategy.
• Be a self-starter, be accountable, and have a sense of urgency in delivering results that have medical impact and yield a positive customer experience.
• Maintain self-awareness and continually choose behaviors and responses based on how it impacts one's own and others' performance and engagement
• Demonstrate clinical and technical skills.
• Demonstrate a breadth of diverse leadership experiences and capabilities including the ability to influence and collaborate with peers and create business impact.
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills: ability to understand and respond to multiple external and internal customers' demands and manage and handle conflict constructively.

Candidate demonstrates 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.

Ability to operate a Pfizer company car and regularly fly on airplanes (ie. attend HCP/customer meetings; attend NYHQ meetings, regional and national scientific meetings, etc.) is required.

• Flexibility to travel 60-80% of time.
• Reasonable proximity to airline 'hub' city
• Ability to work on weekends occasionally (e.g. attend advisory boards and congress meetings)

Work Location Assignment: Remote - Field Based

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