Director – Oncology Scientific Communications

Director – Oncology Scientific Communications

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 10 years of relevant biopharmaceutical/biotech or agency experience (such as Medical Communications, Medical Affairs or scientific communications within Clinical Development roles)
• Experience developing strategic scientific communications and other scientific content to support scientific exchange, including the use of tools and programs to meet the needs of HCPs
• Have a strong understanding of Medical Affairs, including medical strategies, disease areas, and objectives
• Ability to quickly build rapport and credibility with key internal and key external stakeholders through strong interpersonal skills; strong matrix leadership
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex scientific concepts and data into meaningful and digestible communications and foundational tools that can be utilized via multiple channels including at scientific conferences
• Strong track record of written and oral communication skills to develop and present scientific information to varied audiences and articulate messages succinctly
• Strong organizational skills to track numerous tasks for multiple simultaneous projects in a deadline-oriented environment
• Experience working in a highly regulated environment and delivering scientific content in a compliant yet innovative manner, leveraging the latest technologies to ease the consumption of critical scientific information
• Experience with omnichannel, including diverse content development – such as publications, plain language summaries, Congress materials, publication extenders, podcasts, and short-form articles for 3rd party digital platforms
• Experience with scientific peer-reviewed publications

Responsibilities

• Responsible for ensuring strategic input from a broad range of stakeholders (internal and external) is integrated into scientific communications strategic planning to meet the needs of these stakeholders and especially the Oncology Medical TA teams
• Support Global Product Teams, Global Medical franchises, and other Pfizer Oncology stakeholders in engaging with the external medical community on activities related to key clinical trial data readouts
• Ensure alignment of each product’s overall scientific content/communications strategy with relevant Pfizer Oncology stakeholders (e.g., partnering with cross-functional Medical Teams, Channel Excellence, Data Analytics, and other key stakeholders to ensure alignment of communication plans with medical priorities and optimize opportunities for broader data dissemination)
• Act as a strategic thought partner to the TA medical team, providing sci comms functional guidance and subject matter expertise in their designated focus area
• Leads financial projections and budget management for functional deliverables in addition to managing agencies and off-shore teams (if applicable)
• Collaborate with International Medical Channel Content team to ensure sci comms deliverables are shared with country medical colleagues for adaptation
• Have a thorough understanding of therapeutic area assigned, including policy related issues, and the individual inline and pipeline assets across the specific TAs with an ability either to serve as a primary point of contact for accurate, current medical and scientific knowledge or to identify the appropriate Subject Matter Expert within therapeutic area, for internal and external stakeholders and customers
• Responsible for building collaborative relationships with relevant partners in and outside of Medical to ensure optimal creation and execution of channel-specific TA medical communications strategies
• Stay abreast of US regulations and guidance that impact digital delivery of scientific information to external HCPs

Preferred Qualifications

• Oncology experience strongly preferred, specifically prostate cancer
• Advanced medical/scientific degree (MS, PhD, PharmD), with 8+ years’ experience (if Masters) or 6+ years’ experience (if PhD or PharmD)
• Candidate demonstrates a breadth of diverse leadership experiences and capabilities including: the ability to influence and collaborate with peers, develop and coach others, oversee and guide the work of other colleagues to achieve meaningful outcomes and create business impact