Medical Affairs Scientist Oncology Breast Cancer
- Italy - Rome
Oncology Medical Affairs colleagues are experts with a deep knowledge of their therapeutic area and their medicines. Physicians and other health care professionals and stakeholders view them as peers, and Oncology colleagues as partners. In Oncology Medical Affairs, we provide our customers with accurate and clinically relevant information about our medicines that help them make the right treatment decisions through data generation and dissemination and peer-to-peer interactions. We also generate actionable insights on our medicines and evolving clinical reality and collaborate with our colleagues to ensure that they are reflected in internal Oncology decisions and plans.
Pfizer is hiring a Passionate, Talented, Innovative Medical Affairs Scientist (MAS) in Oncology Medical Affairs Department.
The MAS will report to the MAS Line Manager for Oncology, Breast cancer and will play a crucial role in advancing Pfizer's vision as a trusted partner providing breakthroughs for patients. This opportunity will offer the candidate the chance to build effective relationships with healthcare professionals, lead conversations to positively impact the external environment, and help patients with breast cancers.
Collaboration across functions, creativity, and solution-orientation are important criteria for a successful candidate, along with the ability to prioritize and focus strategies based on specific asset requirements. These strategies aim to support Pfizer in becoming a trusted partner that provides breakthroughs for patients.
Why Patients Need You
The MAS Oncology, Breast Cancer is an integral member of the Italy Oncology Medical Affairs organization. The Oncology department has the responsibility to maximize the existing in-line portfolio offering the scientific expertise and excellence while positioning Pfizer as Oncology category leader also through an exciting and promising pipeline.
Will join the Italy Oncology Medical Team and will be responsible for Breast Cancer TAs in some regions of North Italy.
Will have direct relationships with healthcare professionals and research centers focused on increasing quality of partnerships to share the common final objective: patient’s health improvement.
Key Experience Offer of this Role
The candidate will acquire experience in:
Identifies and builds effective relationships with HCPs
Leading the conversation to positively impact the external environment and help the patients with breast cancers
Developing local medical strategy
Works independently. Receives instruction primarily on unusual situations. Ability to organize tasks, time and priorities; ability to multi-task
Looks across and outside the organization for better ways of working – receptive/willing to other ways of thinking
Displays sensitivity to manage relationships and ability to build collaborative working relationships with colleagues and associates both within and external to the organization.
Primary Responsibilities
Maintaining the highest scientific standards during in/external activities to provide deep medical and scientific expertise.
Establish a strong collaborative scientific relationship with relevant stakeholders in the assigned area (KOLs, medical societies, and other relevant internal/external stakeholders).
Provide scientific and medical data to leading health professionals and decision-makers to ensure safe, proper, and effective uses of assigned products, contributing to patients (and populations) health and well-being.
Integrate customer medical insights into the national medical and brand strategy, provide medical and scientific strategic support to the medical team, medical leadership to the country brand team, country and / or local XFTs, drive implementation of the country medical plan.
Responsibility for medical activities at national level referred to the TAs strategy
Organization of consulting processes within the team and the headquarter (Medical and Commercial relevant functions)
Contributes to the selection of research locations in collaboration with clinical operations according to Pfizer SOPs and Policies
Observe compliance rules, ensuring activities and communications are conducted in compliance with all policies, guidelines, and regulation and ensure the respect of medical independence.
What You Offer
Medicine degree is highly preferred.
Specialty training or PhD (Oncology strongly preferred), academic experience or clinical experience are highly preferred.
Relevant Oncology Therapeutic Areas experience in the pharmaceutical industry is preferred
Permanent or home address in Northern Italy preferred
Working area: Northern Italy
Experience in conducting clinical research activities is preferred
Excellent and proven scientific and technical expertise
Project management skills
Ability to work with cross-functional colleagues
Excellent English and local language
Excellent communication and public speaking skills
Adherence to Pfizer Values: Courage, Excellence, Equity and Joy
Purpose
Breakthroughs that change patients' lives... At Pfizer we are a patient centric company, guided by our four values: courage, joy, equity and excellence. Our breakthrough culture lends itself to our dedication to transforming millions of lives.
Digital Transformation Strategy
One bold way we are achieving our purpose is through our company wide digital transformation strategy. We are leading the way in adopting new data, modelling and automated solutions to further digitize and accelerate drug discovery and development with the aim of enhancing health outcomes and the patient experience.
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Equal Employment Opportunity
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Disability Inclusion
Our mission is unleashing the power of all our people and we are proud to be a disability inclusive employer, ensuring equal employment opportunities for all candidates. We encourage you to put your best self forward with the knowledge and trust that we will make any reasonable adjustments to support your application and future career. Your journey with Pfizer starts here!
Breakthroughs that change patients’ lives
Research confirms what intuition tells us: that purpose-driven companies perform better, are more innovative, attract and retain the best people, and know how to unleash the power of those people. Pfizer’s purpose—Breakthroughs that change patients' lives—fuels everything we do and reflects our passion for building on our legacy as one of the greatest contributors of good to the world.
Each word in our purpose has meaning and reflects the value we strive to bring to patients and society:
“Breakthroughs” - These are the innovations, scientific and commercial, that we seek to deliver every day. All colleagues, regardless of role, level or location, strive for breakthroughs every day.
“Change” - We want to do more than simply improve patients’ medical conditions; we want to dramatically change their lives for the better.
“Patients’ lives” - We consider not only patients, but everyone they touch—including their families, caregivers, and friends—and everything they love to do. It’s an intentionally holistic view.
Our purpose ensures that patients remain at the center of all we do. We live our purpose by sourcing the best science in the world; partnering with others in the healthcare system to improve access to our medicines; using digital technologies to enhance our drug discovery and development, as well as patient outcomes; and leading the conversation to advocate for pro-innovation/pro-patient policies.
Every decision we make and every action we take is done with the patient in mind—and to nurture an environment where breakthroughs can thrive.
Our Values
To fully realize Pfizer’s purpose, we have established a clear set of expectations regarding “what” we need to achieve for patients and “how” we will go about achieving those goals.
The “how” is represented by four simple, powerful values—courage, excellence, equity, and joy—that define our company and our culture.
Courage: Breakthroughs start by challenging convention, especially in the face of uncertainty or adversity. This happens when we think big, speak up, and are decisive.
Excellence: We can only change patients’ lives when we perform at our best together. This happens when we focus on what matters, agree who does what, and measure our outcomes.
Equity: We believe that every person deserves to be seen, heard, and cared for. This happens when we are inclusive, act with integrity, and reduce healthcare disparities.
Joy: We give ourselves to our work, but it also gives to us. We find joy when we take pride, recognize one another, and have fun.
Benefits at Pfizer
Pfizer offers competitive compensation and benefits programs designed to meet the diverse needs of our colleagues. Our Pay for Performance Philosophy and Practices reward colleagues based on the contributions they make to our business.
Our Competitive Benefits Programs help our colleagues by:
- Promoting Health and Wellness to help colleagues maintain and improve their physical and mental wellbeing. Pfizer offerings include health and disability insurance, preventative health programs, medical screenings, free or reduced-cost vaccinations, discounts on Pfizer products, mental health support, nutrition and fitness counseling and more.
- Strengthening Colleagues’ Financial Security by providing company contributions to retirement plans, life insurance and financial planning education to help colleagues achieve their financial goals.
- Providing Benefits and Time off for the Moments that Matter to ensure Pfizer colleagues have the time away from the office to recharge, recover and return to work as the best version of themselves. Vacation, Holiday time and Sick time are just the beginning, with a 12 week parental leave policy for both parents of a new born, 10 day of caregiver leave for those times when your family needs you whether it’s a child, spouse or parent, bereavement leave, and additional country-specific programs.
- And so much more, depending on your country and site, Pfizer offers childcare facilities or discount programs, on-site health and/or fitness centers, movement and mindfulness solutions, “Log in for your Day” work flexibility and so much more.
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