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About the Role

The MAS roles are hybrid in responsibilities, varying between 80% field/20% head office and vice versa, based on business needs. Rarely, a role may be 100% field. The role serves as the Pfizer Japan medical scientific point of contact for healthcare professionals, medical societies, regulators, academia, and other external stakeholders. It plays a central role as a scientific and medical leader to identify unmet medical needs, contribute to building and executing medical plans, and establish clinical evidence.

Responsibilities

Demonstrate medical and scientific leadership and expertise.
Ensure the highest scientific standards during in/external activities.
Develop local medical plans aligned with global medical plans to address local unmet medical needs and fill data gaps.
Contribute to the implementation of local medical strategies and life cycle clinical plans for inline and pipeline vaccines.
Provide and exchange medical/scientific information with medical facilities and external stakeholders.
Make important contributions to decisions of medical strategies for assigned products.
Drive for heightened understanding of the burden of disease and medical attributes of products.
Contribute to achieving department/team goals and participate in cross-organizational projects.
Develop and execute Medical Plan aligned with medical strategy to meet unmet medical needs.
Identify unmet medical needs and healthcare disparities and execute customer-facing medical activities.
Create an activity plan with senior medical management to address unmet needs and data gaps.
Develop a Customer Facing part of Medical Plan to establish collaborative scientific relationships with stakeholders.
Provide subject matter expertise and high-quality scientific exchange, bringing in insights to shape strategy.
Establish a strong collaborative scientific relationship through non-promotional activities with relevant stakeholders.
Maintain a comprehensive stakeholder map.
Communicate effectively and agilely at an expert level.
Follow up clinical investigator-sponsored research and medical grants compliant with Pfizer policies.
Acquire and maintain extensive, up-to-date medical and pharmaceutical information.
Enhance opportunities for creation of evidence based on medical needs by sharing customer insights.
Optimize patient centricity of medical communications and deliverables.
Establish deep and enduring peer-to-peer scientific relationships with leading HCPs and specialists.
Maintain and enhance the cross-BU alignment on metrics.
Ensure to collect necessary information and analyze insights prior to meetings.
Provide information on expert/HCP/relevant feedback on product life cycle strategies to related divisions/departments.
Share medical/scientific information & insights with Marketing colleagues to develop brand plans.
Provide scientific input for scientific meetings and materials.
Provide medical education programs with medical societies or relevant stakeholders.
Provide accurate, high-quality, and unbiased medical information to HCPs and external experts.
Manage unsolicited medical requests (UMRs).
Provide scientific insight and support to field- and head office based commercial colleagues.
Collaborate with the cross-functional team to develop impactful and compliant promotional and non-promotional materials.
Collect and share insights from HCPs and stakeholders to inform medical strategy and business opportunities.
Manage local advisory boards to gain customer insights.
Observe the code of conduct, company’s regulations, and compliance.
Ensure awareness of code of conduct for Medical Affairs.
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.
Gather and report safety information for all Pfizer products.

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 equivalent life science research experience, or 6–year university graduates with pharmacist license, or Veterinarians, or Dentists, or MDs.
Preferred: MD (clinical experience, board certification preferred), or PhD in Life Science.
Medical/ pharmaceutical expert knowledge of therapeutic disease area/ products.
Ability to communicate appropriately and build good relationships with internal/external stakeholders.
Collaborate effectively with teams and across functions by demonstrating Pfizer’s Values & Behaviors and the agility to learn from others.
Capable of medical discussion with relevant departments and external HCPs.
Understands compliance and relevant laws/regulations in the pharmaceutical industry and advocates the appropriate use of the products.
Can demonstrate appropriate knowledge and understanding of internal organization structure, key stakeholders and strategies.
Can quickly acquire necessary medical/ scientific knowledge and skills through self-learning.
MA/clinical development experience and / or research experience preferred.
Scientific publication experience preferred.
Able to understand written and spoken English and Japanese in assigned therapeutic disease area, and scientific interactions.
Minimum TOEIC score of 730.

Skills

Medical/ pharmaceutical expert knowledge of therapeutic disease area/ products
Ability to communicate appropriately and build good relationships with internal/external stakeholders
Collaborate effectively with teams and across functions
Agility to learn from others
Capable of medical discussion with relevant departments and external HCPs
Understands compliance and relevant laws/regulations in the pharmaceutical industry
Advocates the appropriate use of the products
Demonstrates appropriate knowledge and understanding of internal organization structure, key stakeholders and strategies
Quickly acquire necessary medical/ scientific knowledge and skills through self-learning
Scientific publication experience
Understanding of written and spoken English and Japanese
Scientific interactions

Location

Japan

Work Type

Hybrid
Field
Head office

Experience Level

MA/clinical development experience and / or research experience preferred
Scientific publication 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 equivalent life science research experience
6–year university graduates with pharmacist license
Veterinarians
Dentists
MDs
MD (clinical experience, board certification preferred)
PhD in Life Science

About the Company

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.

Equal Opportunity

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