# Field-Based Scientific Expert, Thoracic Oncology **Company**: Pfizer **Work arrangement**: remote **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $176,600.00 to $294,300.00 **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://pfizer.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PfizerCareers/job/United-States---California---Remote/Oncology-Field-Medical--Director-Thoracic--non-MD-_4963434-1?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_0ac8d0da-ad3 ## Description Lung cancer treatment is evolving rapidly, and the space between emerging evidence and everyday clinical practice is where our medical expertise matters most. As a field-based scientific expert supporting Pfizer's Thoracic oncology portfolio across the California/Nevada/Hawaii territory, you will engage a broad range of medical customer segments. **Field Medical: Core Responsibilities** - Plan and execute Medical strategy and engagement for assigned customers within a territory, compliantly coordinating with other Pfizer colleagues as needed to achieve Medical objectives. - Maintain required level of knowledge of relevant therapeutic area/disease states and Pfizer medicines, providing therapeutic area/product information to both internal and external stakeholders as needed. - Serve as a conduit and resource for Medical Information and customer insights, providing requested information to HCPs as allowed by Pfizer guidance and sharing customer viewpoints with Pfizer as appropriate. - Understand the priorities of Pfizer Medical Affairs in order to contribute to Medical content strategy development and execute aligned Field Medical tactics. - Maintain effective and appropriate communication and collaboration among headquarters Medical colleagues, Medical Information, and other Pfizer Field Medical colleagues. - Demonstrate expertise in communication across multiple channels, including live and virtual presentations in small or large settings, written communication, and telephone or virtual conversations. - Optimize patient centricity of Medical communications and deliverables, incorporating Health Literacy and cultural awareness principles to ensure that patients remain the ultimate focus. **Field Medical: Additional Responsibilities** - Deliver approved medical content about Pfizer medicines and relevant topics in the designated therapeutic area. - Identify and seek medical engagement from priority customer segments in assigned Therapeutic Area. - Provide truthful, accurate, and scientifically supported information in response to direct unsolicited medical requests from HCPs in a manner that complies with all applicable Pfizer guidelines, policies, and procedures. - Lead advisory boards, working with vendors if necessary, with manager oversight. - Field relevant inbound queries from HCPs via established triage process. - In collaboration with Global Medical Affairs colleagues, partner with Oncology Research & Development and Global Product Development (GPD) in the identification of potential sites for Pfizer-sponsored clinical trials, including identification of sites serving under-represented patient populations in trials. - Appropriately provide Medical support throughout the Investigator Sponsored Research (ISR) process. - Cultivate research and therapeutic area expertise, including familiarity with latest congress data and disease state literature. - Provides Asset leadership. - Understand the principles of study design, methodology, data analysis, and interpretation and communicate these concepts with customers. - Lead your territory with an ownership mindset: strategic planning, disciplined prioritization, and full accountability for medical impact in your geography. - Reactively and proactively communicate with local Patient Advocacy Group(s), as appropriate, in close collaboration with Corporate Affairs and HQ Medical Affairs. - Deliver actionable field insights , local patient organization structure, capabilities, patient population needs, real-world treatment patterns, evolving standards of care, and unmet data needs , to inform medical strategy and evidence generation. - Serve on Medical and/or TA and asset cross-functional committees, as appropriate. - Represent Pfizer Medical Affairs leadership with clinical/professional associations and/or societies, consistently demonstrating medical professionalism in all interactions. - Mentorship – Onboarding partner, ad board and study lead mentor. - Participate in special projects as needed. **Qualifications** - Bachelor's degree in a health science required. - PharmD, PhD, or equivalent terminal doctoral degree (e.g., Doctor of Nursing Practice, Doctor of Physical Therapy) highly preferred. - Relevant experience required: PharmD/PhD with 6 years of experience, MBA/MSc with 8 years of experience, BA/BSc with 10 years of experience. - Subject matter expert recognized across internal and external stakeholders. - Demonstrate a breadth of diverse leadership experiences and capabilities including the ability to influence and collaborate with peers and create business impact. - Demonstrate excellent oral and written communication skills. - Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills: ability to understand and respond to multiple external and internal customers' demands and manage and handle conflict constructively. - Manage a significant volume of projects developed in a remote environment, while exhibiting the ability to prioritize, successfully implement, and demonstrate excellent judgment skills and work in a continuous improvement environment. - Work within a matrixed, multi-disciplinary team to foster strong Pfizer/customer professional relationships which are aligned with Pfizer Medical objectives. - Effectively manage through and lead change in an ever-changing and evolving external health care environment. - Demonstrate change agility; be flexible to new opportunities (e.g. new therapeutic areas) and adaptable to organizational change. - Problem-solve and network enterprise wide as appropriate to identify solutions. - Collaborate effectively and demonstrate leadership and teamwork with peers, internal stakeholders and external customers that inspires alignment and partnership on a shared vision or strategy. - Be a self-starter, be accountable, and have a sense of urgency in delivering results that have medical impact and yield a positive customer experience. - Maintain self-awareness and continually choose behaviors and responses based on how it impacts one's own and others' performance and engagement. - Demonstrate clinical and technical skills. - Rapidly adopt and utilize new digital technology and other resources with medical customers and record medical interactions. - Operate a Pfizer company car and regularly fly on airplanes (i.e. attend HCP/customer meetings; attend NYHQ meetings, etc. required; proximity to airline 'hub' city); maintain flexibility to travel 60-80% of time. - Currently reside in one of the states within the territory: CA or NV. **Benefits** - Comprehensive and generous benefits and programs to help our colleagues lead healthy lives and to support each of life's moments. - 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions and an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution. - Paid vacation, holiday and personal days. - Paid caregiver/parental and medical leave. - Health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage. ## Skills ### Required - health science - medical strategy - communication - leadership - project management ### Nice to have - PharmD - PhD - MBA - MSc - healthcare experience --- Source: [Apply at pfizer.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com](https://pfizer.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PfizerCareers/job/United-States---California---Remote/Oncology-Field-Medical--Director-Thoracic--non-MD-_4963434-1?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)