# Medical Affairs Specialist

**Company**: Pfizer
**Location**: Tokyo, Japan
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Medical Affairs Specialist to serve as a scientific and medical leader in our Japan team. As a hybrid role, you will split your time between field and head office activities, with a focus on providing medical expertise and scientific leadership to healthcare professionals, medical societies, regulators, and academia.

Key Responsibilities:

- Demonstrate medical and scientific leadership and expertise in the assigned therapeutic area

- Develop and execute local medical plans aligned with global medical plans

- Provide and exchange medical/scientific information with medical facilities and external stakeholders

- Drive for heightened understanding of the burden of disease and medical attributes of our products

- Contribute to achieving departmental goals and participate in cross-organizational projects

- Develop and execute customer-facing medical activities, including unbiased medical and scientific communication with HCPs

- Establish a strong collaborative scientific relationship with stakeholders through non-promotional activities

- Maintain a comprehensive stakeholder map and communicate effectively with HCPs and external stakeholders

- Follow up clinical investigator-sponsored research and medical grants compliant with Pfizer policies

Requirements:

- 4-year university undergraduate degree and master's degree in life science, or pharmacist, veterinarian, dentist, or MD

- Medical/pharmaceutical expert knowledge of therapeutic disease area/products

- Ability to communicate effectively with internal/external stakeholders

- Collaborate effectively with teams and across functions

- Capable of medical discussion with relevant departments and external HCPs

- Understands compliance and relevant laws/regulations in the pharmaceutical industry

- Can demonstrate appropriate knowledge and understanding of internal organization structure, key stakeholders, and strategies

- Able to understand written and spoken English and Japanese in assigned therapeutic disease area

- Minimum TOEIC score of 730

## Skills

### Required
- life science
- medical expertise
- scientific leadership
- communication skills
- compliance
- Japanese

### Nice to have
- MD
- PhD in Life Science
- clinical development experience
- research experience
- scientific publication experience

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