# Patient Advocacy Lead

**Company**: Pfizer
**Location**: Beijing
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Patient Advocacy Lead to set and lead the country/regional patient advocacy strategy, aligned with business, policy and reputation priorities.

**Responsibilities**

- Set and lead the country/regional patient advocacy strategy, aligned with business, policy and reputation priorities.

- Build trusted, long-term partnerships with patient, professional, community and trade organizations; serve as the senior point of contact for priority relationships.

- Bring patient insights and the patient voice into policy, research, development, medical and commercial decision-making across the medicine lifecycle.

- Create coalitions and collaborative platforms that advance shared policy priorities, improve access to medicines and vaccines, and strengthen patient education.

- Advise senior leaders on emerging patient, policy and reputation opportunities and risks, with clear short-, medium- and long-term action plans.

- Partner across Policy and Public Affairs, Communications, Digital, WRDM (Worldwide Research, Development and Medical), GPD (Global Product Development) and business teams to scale patient-engagement standards, tools and best practices.

- Represent Pfizer in relevant external forums and advisory bodies and lead high-impact advocacy engagements and events.

**Core Competencies**

- Strategic leadership and sound judgment

- Patient organization management and trusted relationship building

- Influence, collaboration and coalition building

- Clear, credible executive communication

- Execution, accountability and agility

**Key Relationships**

- Internal: Patient Advocacy leadership; Policy and Public Affairs; Communications; Commercial; Medical; Regulatory Affairs; Digital; Research and Development; and other enterprise stakeholders.

- External: Patient and professional advocacy organizations, community and provider groups, trade associations, policy thought leaders and other relevant partners.

**Qualifications**

- Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree in public health, public policy or a related field preferred.

- At least 14 years of experience in patient advocacy, patient engagement, public affairs or a related field, including experience in the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry.

- Track record of setting strategy and delivering measurable advocacy, stakeholder-engagement and partnership outcomes in a complex matrix organization.

- Extensive experience in managing patient organizations and building trusted, long-term relationships with them.

- Strong understanding of the healthcare environment and the ability to translate business needs and patient priorities into integrated advocacy plans.

- Excellent executive communication, influence and issue-management skills, including experience in crisis and reputation management.

- Strategic, innovative and results-oriented leader who can operate independently, collaborate across functions and engage effectively at all organizational levels.

## Skills

### Required
- strategic leadership
- patient organization management
- influence
- coalition building
- executive communication

### Nice to have
- advanced degree in public health
- public policy
- pharmaceutical industry experience

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