ROLE SUMMARY

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 organisation 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 UK 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 ABPI Code of Practice that are not covered by the Code Approval Team

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

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 UK 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 NHS and patients
• 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:

• 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 UK 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 organisation to shape future strategies
• Lead local advisory boards to gain clinical and patient insights
• Work with patients and patient organisations to understand unmet medical need and to ensure the patient voice is at the centre 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 ABPI Code of Practice that are not covered by the Code Approval Team

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 licence maintenance in partnership with the Code Approval Team
• 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

Managing Resources

• Financial accountability for project budget within medical plan