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About the Role

The MAS role family comprises a variety of medical scientific specialties. This role serves as the Pfizer Japan medical scientific point of contact for external stakeholders, leading and developing a team of Medical Affairs Scientists to maintain the highest scientific standards, independence, and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Guide and develop team members to optimize product values from a scientific perspective.
• Lead and develop team members through appropriate assignments, coaching, appraisal, and feedback.
• Effectively manage and lead change in an evolving healthcare environment.
• Collaborate effectively and demonstrate leadership and teamwork with peers, internal stakeholders, and external customers.
• Provide and exchange medical/scientific information for/from medical institutions and other sources.
• Drive understanding of clinical and medical attributes of products to enhance safe and efficacious use.
• Maintain the highest scientific standards during in/external activities.
• Contribute to the implementation of local medical strategies and life cycle clinical plans for inline and pipeline medicines/vaccines.
• Make important contributions to decisions of medical strategies for assigned products.
• Develop and execute the medical plan aligned with the medical strategy to meet unmet medical needs in Dermatology.
• Identify unmet medical needs and healthcare disparities in Dermatology through medical activities.
• Create an activity plan with senior Medical management to address needs and fill data gaps.
• Develop a Customer Facing Medical Plan in Dermatology to establish scientific peer-level professional relationships.
• Execute the Customer Facing Medical Plan in Dermatology, including medical communication, advisory boards, and data generation.
• Provide subject matter expertise and high-quality scientific exchange, bringing insights into the organization.
• Collaborate with medical stakeholders as a scientific expert.
• Establish strong collaborative scientific relationships through non-promotional activities.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive stakeholder map.
• Handle Unsolicited Medical Request (UMR) responses.
• Follow up on clinical investigator-sponsored research and medical grants.
• Acquire extensive medical/pharmaceutical information and gather the latest medical information.
• Deliver key medical and scientific activities within the medical plan.
• Establish highly reliable, long-term relationships with stakeholders.
• Establish deep and enduring peer-to-peer scientific relationships with leading HCPs and specialists.
• Provide feedback on information and views obtained from stakeholders and HCPs to relevant departments.
• Consolidate insights as Medical/Public Health/Healthcare insights.
• Enhance opportunities for evidence creation 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.
• 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 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.
• Gather and report safety information for all Pfizer products.
• Attend training programs on the obligation of assigned safety reporting.
• Contribute to Business Development in Dermatology by identifying unmet needs and candidate therapies.
• Rapidly respond to critical supply issues from the medical perspective.

Requirements

• Minimum requirement 4 year university undergraduate degree AND master’s degree in life science, or Pharmacists 4-year university graduates with pharmacist license and master’s degree or above or equivalent life science research experience, or 6–year university graduates with pharmacist license, or Nurses with master’s degree or above, or Veterinarians, or Dentists, or MDs.
• MD (clinical experience, board certification preferred), or PhD in Life Science.
• Experience in Dermatology.
• People management experience.
• Medical/ pharmaceutical expert knowledge of therapeutic disease area/ products.
• Coaching and management skills in developing employees and building effective teams as well as leading change processes.
• Demonstrate leadership skills with the ability to inspire, motivate, develop, and lead a team in a complex, changing environment.
• Ability to communicate appropriately and build good relationships with internal/external stakeholders.
• Ability to problem-solve and network enterprise wide as appropriate to identify solutions.
• Capable of medical discussion with relevant departments and external HCPs.
• Understand compliance and relevant laws/regulations in the pharmaceutical industry.
• Can demonstrate in-depth knowledge and understanding of internal organization structure, key stakeholders and strategies.
• Able to quickly acquire necessary medical/ scientific knowledge and skills though self-learning.
• Demonstrate growth mindset and flexibility.
• Work experience at functions of: Medical Affairs; Development and/or Research preferred.
• Scientific publication experience preferred.
• Medical science liaison experience preferred.
• Clinical research experience.
• Cross functional, strategic project management experience preferred.
• Able to understand written and spoken English and Japanese in assigned therapeutic disease area, and scientific interactions.
• Minimum TOEIC score of 850 preferred.

Skills

• Medical/ pharmaceutical expert knowledge of therapeutic disease area/ products
• Coaching and management skills
• Leadership skills
• Communication skills
• Problem-solving skills
• Networking skills
• Medical discussion capabilities
• Understanding of compliance and relevant laws/regulations
• In-depth knowledge of internal organization structure, key stakeholders and strategies
• Ability to acquire new medical/ scientific knowledge and skills
• Growth mindset
• Flexibility
• Scientific publication
• Medical science liaison
• Clinical research
• Cross functional, strategic project management
• English and Japanese language proficiency
• TOEIC score of 850 preferred

Location

• Hybrid

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• People management experience
• Experience in Dermatology
• Medical Affairs experience
• Development and/or Research experience preferred
• Scientific publication experience preferred
• Medical science liaison experience preferred
• Clinical research experience
• Cross functional, strategic project management experience preferred

Education Level

• 4 year university undergraduate degree AND master’s degree in life science
• Pharmacists 4-year university graduates with pharmacist license and master’s degree or above or equivalent life science research experience
• 6–year university graduates with pharmacist license
• Nurses with master’s degree or above
• Veterinarians
• Dentists
• MDs
• MD (clinical experience, board certification preferred)
• PhD in Life Science

About the Company

• Pfizer careers are like no other. In our culture of individual ownership, we believe in our ability to improve future healthcare, and potential to transform millions of lives. We’re looking for new talent to join our global community, to unearth new innovative therapies that make the world a healthier place.

Equal Opportunity

• Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.
• To learn more about acceptable and prohibited uses of AI during the recruitment process, please review our candidate AI-use guidelines available on Pfizer Careers.