[Hiring] Medical Affairs Scientist @Pfizer

Role Description

The MAS role family comprises a variety of medical scientific specialties, such as BU Medical and field based Medical. Be the Pfizer Japan medical scientific point of contact for HCPs, medical societies, regulators, academia and other external stakeholders. Maintain the highest scientific standards, independence and compliance in every medical/scientific external activity, as well as in scope internal processes.

• Demonstrate medical and scientific leadership and expertise.
• Provide and exchange medical/scientific information for/from medical institutions and other related sources in the assigned area and from stakeholders.
• Drive for heightened understanding of the clinical and medical attributes of our products to enhance safe and efficacious use.
• Maintain the highest scientific standards during in/external activities to provide deep medical and scientific expertise.
• Contribute to the implementation of local medical strategies and life cycle clinical plans for inline and pipeline medicines/vaccines to address unmet medical needs and fill data gaps.
• Make important contributions to decisions of medical strategies for assigned products to ensure safe, proper, and effective use of assigned products.
• Contribute to achieving the department/team goals and participate in cross-organizational projects as a core member.
• Play an active role in supporting team members to move towards its goals.
• Develop and execute the medical plan aligned with the medical strategy to meet unmet medical needs in the assigned product(s) and therapeutic area(s).
• Identify unmet medical needs and healthcare disparities through medical activities such as advisory board meetings and scientific exchanges.
• Create an activity plan as Medical with senior Medical management to address needs and fill data gaps.
• Develop a Customer Facing Medical Plan to establish collaborative scientific relationships with stakeholders.
• Execute the Customer Facing Medical Plan through unbiased medical and scientific communication with HCPs, advisory board meetings, educational seminars, and data generation initiatives.
• Provide subject matter expertise and high-quality scientific exchange to help shape strategy.
• Collaborate with medical stakeholders as a scientific expert for HCPs, medical societies, academia, and other relevant organizations.
• Establish a strong collaborative scientific relationship through non-promotional activities.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive stakeholder map to identify relevant HCPs and medical societies.
• Handle UMR (Unsolicited Medical Request) responses and provide accurate, high-quality, and unbiased information.
• Follow up on clinical investigator-sponsored research and medical grants compliant with Pfizer policies.
• Acquire extensive medical/pharmaceutical information and gather the latest medical information in the assigned area.
• Deliver key medical and scientific activities within the medical plan.
• Establish a highly reliable, long-term relationship with stakeholders.
• Maintain and enhance cross-BU alignment on metrics.
• Collect necessary information and analyze insights prior to meetings.
• Provide feedback on information and views obtained from stakeholders and HCPs.
• Enhance opportunities for creation of evidence based on medical needs.
• Optimize patient centricity of medical communications and deliverables.
• Align, contribute, and collaborate with relevant internal stakeholders.
• Provide information on expert/HCP/relevant others feedback on product life cycle strategies.
• Collect and analyze unmet medical needs and seek solutions in collaboration with cross-functional colleagues.
• Provide scientific input for scientific meetings and materials.
• Provide medical education programs with and to relevant stakeholders.
• Observe the code of conduct, company’s regulations, and compliance.
• Conduct activities in compliance with the MHLW Guidelines for Prescription Drug Sales Information Activities.
• Ensure activities and communications are conducted in compliance with all policies, guidelines, and regulations.
• Ensure awareness of responsibility for reporting adverse events.
• Contribute to Business Development in the assigned area(s).
• Rapidly respond to critical supply issues from the medical perspective.

Qualifications

• Minimum requirement: 4 year university undergraduate degree AND master’s degree in life science, or Pharmacists with a master’s degree or above, or equivalent life science research experience.
• Preferred: MD (clinical experience, board certification preferred), or PhD in Life Science.

Requirements

• Medical/pharmaceutical expert knowledge of therapeutic disease area/products.
• Ability to communicate appropriately and build good relationships with internal/external stakeholders.
• Work effectively with teams and across functions by demonstrating Pfizer’s Values & Behaviors.
• Capable of medical discussion with relevant departments and external HCPs.
• Understanding of compliance and relevant laws/regulations in the pharmaceutical industry.
• Ability to quickly acquire necessary medical/scientific knowledge and skills through self-learning.

Benefits

• Work location assignment: リモート – フィールドベース.