Description
We are seeking a Medical Scientific Liaison to serve as a medical scientific point of contact for healthcare professionals, medical societies, regulators, academia, and other external stakeholders in Japan.
The successful candidate will provide medical and scientific leadership and expertise, drive for heightened understanding of the clinical and medical attributes of Pfizer's products, and contribute to the implementation of local medical strategies and life cycle clinical plans.
Key responsibilities include:
- Providing and exchanging medical/scientific information with medical institutions and stakeholders
- Driving for heightened understanding of the clinical and medical attributes of Pfizer's products
- Maintaining the highest scientific standards during internal and external activities
- Contributing to the implementation of local medical strategies and life cycle clinical plans
- Establishing a strong collaborative scientific relationship with relevant stakeholders
- Handling unsolicited medical requests and providing accurate, high-quality, and unbiased information
- Following up on clinical investigator-sponsored research and medical grants
- Acquiring extensive medical/pharmaceutical information and gathering the latest medical information in the assigned area
- Delivering key medical and scientific activities within the medical plan
- Establishing deep and enduring peer-to-peer scientific relationships with leading healthcare professionals and specialists
- Maintaining and enhancing cross-business unit alignment on metrics
- Ensuring collection of necessary information and analysis of insights prior to meetings
- Providing feedback on information and views obtained from stakeholders and healthcare professionals
- Enhancing opportunities for creation of evidence based on medical needs
- Optimizing patient centricity of medical communications and deliverables
- Aligning, contributing, and collaborating with relevant internal stakeholders
- Observing the code of conduct, company's regulations, and compliance
- Ensuring awareness of responsibility for reporting adverse events
As needed, the successful candidate will also contribute to business development in the assigned area, rapidly respond to critical supply issues from a medical perspective, and participate in cross-functional projects.
Requirements include:
- A 4-year university undergraduate degree and master's degree in life science, or a pharmacist license with a 4-year university degree and master's degree or above, or equivalent life science research experience
- Technical skills in medical/pharmaceutical expert knowledge, communication, and teamwork
- Experience in medical affairs, development, and/or research
- Ability to understand written and spoken English and Japanese
- Minimum TOEIC score of 730 preferred