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The Role
Leads rare disease medical affairs strategy and customer-facing scientific engagement in Korea. Builds relationships with healthcare professionals, institutions, medical societies, and investigators; supports advisory boards, scientific exchange, data generation, non-interventional studies, investigator-sponsored research, clinical trial feasibility, post-marketing surveillance, and risk management. Provides therapeutic-area expertise, medical insights, internal training, regulatory and commercial input, and cross-functional partnership while ensuring compliance with local and global regulations.
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PURPOSE
Sr. Medical Affairs Scientist (MAS) main role is to create and implement strategies, to build and develop enduring peer-to-peer relationships with healthcare professionals and institutions, creating constructive, cross-functional partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to generate customer insights and leverage business opportunities. Provide medical support that is aligned and integrated to the overall strategy for the MSA within the Therapeutic Area (TA) brand operating and clinical plans.
SCOPE
Scope of Sr. MAS includes, but is not limited to:
Planning and Implementation of Customer Facing Medical Initiatives
Medical Expert in Responsible TA/Brand
Geographic Area Covered by the Role
REPORTING LINE
RESOURCES MANAGED
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES / DUTIES
Customer Facing Medical Role
Create and implement strategies to build and develop enduring peer-to-peer relationships with healthcare professionals (HCPs) and institutions, and create cross-functional partnerships with internal and external stakeholders through scientific communication to gather customer intelligence and insights and leverage business opportunities.
Support Medical and Brand Strategies
Support Data Generation
Develop and Maintain Medical Expertise
Organizational Development
REQUIRED SKILLS
Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.
To learn more about acceptable and prohibited uses of AI during the recruitment process, please review our candidate AI-use guidelines available on Pfizer Careers .
Medical
Sr. Medical Affairs Scientist (MAS) main role is to create and implement strategies, to build and develop enduring peer-to-peer relationships with healthcare professionals and institutions, creating constructive, cross-functional partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to generate customer insights and leverage business opportunities. Provide medical support that is aligned and integrated to the overall strategy for the MSA within the Therapeutic Area (TA) brand operating and clinical plans.
SCOPE
Scope of Sr. MAS includes, but is not limited to:
Planning and Implementation of Customer Facing Medical Initiatives
- Establishing KOL & Medical Societies Relationships
- Medical to Medical Communications
- Medical Meetings (e.g., Advisory Boards, Scientific Exchange Meetings, etc.)
Medical Expert in Responsible TA/Brand
- Data Generation (e.g., Non-Interventional Studies, Investigator Sponsored Research, Research Collaborations, etc.)
- Internal Training Regarding Relevant Therapeutic Areas and Products
- Supply Medical Insight for Product Life-Cycle Management
- Medical Representative for Country TA/Brand Initiatives
- Country Representative for TA/Brand Global Initiatives
Geographic Area Covered by the Role
- Korea
REPORTING LINE
- The Sr. Medical Affairs Scientist reports to Rare Disease Medical Lead
RESOURCES MANAGED
- Resource related to Medical Activities may be managed by this role
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES / DUTIES
Customer Facing Medical Role
Create and implement strategies to build and develop enduring peer-to-peer relationships with healthcare professionals (HCPs) and institutions, and create cross-functional partnerships with internal and external stakeholders through scientific communication to gather customer intelligence and insights and leverage business opportunities.
- Ensure effective customer and medical/clinical environment mapping to guide in Medical interactions
- Create Medical to Medical Interaction Plan & actively interact with individual scientific leaders in the field
- Support the creation of partnerships with relevant Medical Societies, government agencies, and other industry groups
- Exchange high-quality, accurate, well-balanced, and directed scientific information with customers and stakeholders in response to unsolicited medical requests
- In response to unsolicited medical requests for information, communicate scientific data on TA portfolio including off-label indications and compounds in development where specifically requested
- Ensure customer intelligence and insights are fed back into the organization to aid internal strategies and leveraging of business opportunities
- Act as bridge between Pfizer scientists and other internal resources and external HCPs and independent researchers to facilitate scientific collaborations
Support Medical and Brand Strategies
- Development and implementation of strategy, tactics and operating plan at country level to ensure plans are successfully developed and executed to achieve short- and long-term objectives in alignment with global, regional and local medical and brand goals
- In compliance and close coordination with medical team/Medical Lead, develop and implement key medical projects and initiatives to enhance proper dissemination of medical and scientific information
- Collaborate with team members including (Sr.) Medical Manager and Medical Lead in management of medical initiatives including local advisory boards, scientific exchange meetings, medical lead symposia, etc.
- Collaborate with (Sr.) Medical Manager/Medical Lead and communicate with HCPs based on medical strategies through initiation and implementation of local non-interventional studies (NIS), management of post-marketing surveillance (PMS), and risk management plans (RMP); investigator-sponsored research (ISR) opportunities; and support for local feasibility assessments of Phase I-IV clinical trials
- Provide medical leadership and insights for cross-functional initiatives; medical input for regulatory, access, commercial and other initiatives
- Support collaborations internally with commercial TA teams through internal training, medical input for material review, etc.
- Collaborate with external and internal partners to develop innovative digital and AI tools to support brand strategy
Support Data Generation
- Collaborate with local study operations and RWE/NIS teams for successful data generation through non-interventional studies including regulatory post-marketing surveillance
- Support coordination and investigator communications for Investigator Sponsored Research (ISR), Research Collaborations (CRC), and CTP (Compound Transfer Programs)
Develop and Maintain Medical Expertise
- Develop and maintain medical expertise in the responsible therapeutic area
Organizational Development
- Act as Customer Facing Medical Role expert; support onboarding, training and development of Medical Affairs Scientists (MAS) as needed
REQUIRED SKILLS
- Medical, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, nursing, life science or other relevant advanced degree
- Previous or current experience in Rare Disease preferred
- Experience in Medical Affairs and/or Customer Facing Medical role (3+ years preferred)
- In-depth knowledge of responsible therapeutic areas and the relevant medicines
- Good understanding of drug development process and related external and internal regulations and SOPs including clinical research, regulatory approval, pricing & reimbursement, pharmacovigilance, etc., especially for rare diseases and rare disease drugs
- Good understanding of compliance framework for medical activities in relation to local regulations and internal regulations, e.g., Pharmaceutical Affairs Law, KRPIA Code of Conduct, Pfizer Green Guide
- Good understanding of the local healthcare policy and environment
- Ability to understand and critically evaluate clinical study protocols, reports, and scientific/medical publications
- Highly developed interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills
- Fluency in Korean
- Fluency in Business English strongly preferred
Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.
To learn more about acceptable and prohibited uses of AI during the recruitment process, please review our candidate AI-use guidelines available on Pfizer Careers .
Medical
Skills Required
- Advanced degree in medicine, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, nursing, life sciences, or another relevant field
- Three or more years of experience in Medical Affairs and/or a customer-facing medical role
- Previous or current experience in rare disease
- In-depth knowledge of the relevant therapeutic areas and medicines
- Understanding of drug development and regulations covering clinical research, regulatory approval, pricing and reimbursement, and pharmacovigilance
- Understanding of compliance requirements for medical activities, including local and internal regulations
- Understanding of the local healthcare policy and environment
- Ability to critically evaluate clinical study protocols, reports, and scientific or medical publications
- Highly developed interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills
- Fluency in Korean
- Fluency in business English
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