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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. This role serves as the Pfizer Japan medical scientific point of contact for external stakeholders and acts as a scientific and medical leader to identify unmet needs, contribute to 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 unmet medical needs and fill data gaps.
Provide and exchange medical/scientific information with external stakeholders.
Drive understanding of disease burden and product attributes to enhance safe and efficacious use.
Contribute to department/team goals and participate in cross-organizational projects.
Identify unmet medical needs 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 the Medical Plan to establish collaborative scientific relationships.
Provide subject matter expertise and high-quality scientific exchange, bringing insights into the organization to shape strategy.
Collaborate with medical stakeholders’ management as a scientific expert.
Establish strong collaborative scientific relationships through non-promotional activities.
Maintain a comprehensive stakeholder map and communicate effectively at an expert level.
Follow up on clinical investigator-sponsored research and medical grants.
Acquire and maintain extensive, up-to-date medical and pharmaceutical information.
Deliver key medical and scientific activities within the medical plan.
Establish a highly reliable, long-term relationship with stakeholders.
Enhance opportunities for evidence creation 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 cross-BU alignment on metrics.
Collect and analyze insights prior to meetings to provide deep medical and scientific expertise.
Align, contribute, and collaborate with relevant internal stakeholders.
Provide information on expert/HCP/relevant feedback on product life cycle strategies.
Share medical/scientific information & insights with Marketing colleagues.
Provide scientific input for scientific meetings and materials.
Provide medical education programs with medical societies or relevant stakeholders.
Provide medical/scientific input into protocol feasibility assessments for clinical trial proposals.
Collaborate with Development Japan/global development to identify appropriate investigators/sites.
Drive the timely completion of Pfizer-sponsored clinical trials.
Provide input into global clinical teams and DJ to ensure trial design is relevant to Japan’s needs.
Support DJ on clinical development programs and regulatory interactions.
Contribute to the development and implementation of product(s)/therapeutic area(s) medical strategy.
Provide accurate, high-quality, and unbiased medical information to HCPs.
Provide scientific insight and support to 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.
Manage local advisory boards to gain customer insights.
Present the scientific perspective on selected topics during media-briefings (if media-trained).
Observe the code of conduct, company’s regulations, and compliance.
Ensure awareness of the code of conduct for Medical Affairs.
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.
Contribute to Business Development in assigned areas.
Rapidly respond to critical supply issues from a medical perspective.

Requirements

Minimum requirement: 4-year university undergraduate degree AND master’s degree in life science, OR Pharmacists, OR 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 Nurses with a master’s degree, 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 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 for appropriate product use.
Demonstrates 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/DJ 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
Understanding of compliance and relevant laws/regulations in the pharmaceutical industry
Advocates the appropriate use of the products
Appropriate knowledge and understanding of internal organization structure, key stakeholders and strategies
Ability to quickly acquire necessary medical/ scientific knowledge and skills through self-learning
Scientific publication experience
Written and spoken English and Japanese proficiency
Medical and scientific interactions

Location

Japan

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Medical/ pharmaceutical expert knowledge
MA/DJ 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
Nurses with a master’s degree
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.

Equal Opportunity

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