※MD, PhD, or Pharmacist with MSL experience.

Job Description
MAIN REPONSIBILITIES / DUTIES

JOB POSITION PURPOSE

• The MAS roles are hybrid in responsibilities. Specific roles in teams can vary between 80% field with 20% head

office activity to 80% head office activity with 20% field activity. This is a continuum and not fixed and will

vary based on business needs. Rarely there may be a role that is 100% Field.

• Be the Pfizer Japan medical scientific point of contact for HCPs, medical societies, regulators, academia and

other external stakeholders.

• Play a central role as a scientific and medical leader who can identify unmet medical needs, contribute to

building and executing medical plans and establish clinical evidence.

MAIN REPONSIBILITIES:

Demonstrate medical and scientific leadership and expertise

• Ensure the highest scientific standards during in / external activities to provide deep medical and scientific

expertise.

• Develop local medical plan aligned with global medical plan to address local unmet medical needs and fill data

gaps, and contribute to the implementation of local medical strategies and life cycle clinical plans for inline

and pipeline vaccines.

• Provide and exchange medical/scientific information for/from medical facilities in the assigned area and

external stakeholders and make important contributions to decisions of medical strategies for assigned

products, to ensure safe, proper, and effective uses of assigned products. These activities contribute to

patients and healthcare professionals from medical, pharmaceutical, and clinical study’s perspective.

• Drive for heightened understanding of the burden of disease in the assigned therapeutic area and medical

attributes of our products to enhance the safe and efficacious use.

• Contribute to achieving the department/team goals, and/or participate in cross-organizational projects as a

core member and provide guidance to deliver the results.

• Develop and Execute Medical Plan aligned with medical strategy to meet unmet medical needs in the assigned

product(s) and therapeutic area(s)

• Identify unmet medical needs and healthcare disparities in the assigned asset(s) and therapeutic area(s), and

execute customer facing medical activities including unbiased medical and scientific communication with HCPs and other relevant individuals and organizations, medical advisory board meetings, educational seminars, and data generation initiatives, medical materials creation and necessary scientific input.

• Create an activity plan with senior medical management to address unmet needs and data gaps.

• Develop a Customer Facing part of Medical Plan in the therapeutic area(s) and asset(s) to establish

collaborative scientific relationships with stakeholders.

• Providing subject matter expertise and high-quality scientific exchange, bringing in insights (formally and

informally) into the organization to shape strategy

Collaborate with medical stakeholders’ management as a scientific expert for HCPs, medical societies, academia,

etc.

• Establish a strong collaborative scientific relationship through non-promotional activities such as scientific

exchanges (e.g., discussion using the latest research papers and follow-up of contents of academic conference

presentations) with relevant stakeholders in the assigned area.

• Maintain a comprehensive stakeholder map to identify relevant HCPs, medical societies, and other relevant

external stakeholders. And to communicate effectively and agilely at an expert level.

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

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Acquire and maintain extensive, up-to-date medical and pharmaceutical information in the assigned area to

identify unmet needs and support medical strategy.

Establish a highly reliable, long-term relationship with stakeholders

• Enhance opportunities for creation of evidence based on medical needs by sharing customer insights with

internal/external stakeholders through constructive and cross-functional partnership.

• Optimize patient centricity of medical communications and deliverables, incorporating Health Literacy and

cultural awareness principles to ensure that patients remain the ultimate focus.

• Establish deep and enduring peer-to-peer scientific relationships with leading HCPs and specialists, including

non-traditional partners and key decision makers.

• Maintain and enhance the cross-BU alignment on metrics.

• Ensure to collect necessary information and analyze insights prior to the meetings to provide deep medical

and scientific expertise to stakeholders and HCPs

Aligns, contributes, and collaborates with Relevant internal stakeholders

• Provide information on expert / HCP / relevant feedback on product life cycle strategies to related

divisions/department in the company.

• Share the medical/scientific information & insights within appropriate limits/ways for Marketing colleagues to

develop brand plan(s).

• Scientific input for scientific meetings and materials

• Provide medical education programs with medical societies or relevant stakeholders.

Data communication and customer insights

• Provide accurate, high-quality, and unbiased medical information to HCPs and external experts, including

managing unsolicited medical requests (UMRs).

• Provide scientific insight and support to field- and head office based commercial colleagues.

• Collaborate with the cross functional team in-country and above-country to develop impactful and compliant

promotional and non-promotional materials of value to customers

• Collect and share insights from HCPs and stakeholders to inform medical strategy and business opportunities.

• Manage local advisory boards to gain customer insights

Observe the code of conduct, company’s regulations, and compliance, make communication with related

departments, and exercise leadership in POJ.

• Ensure awareness of code of contact for Medical Affairs (guidance for external medical interactions) and

observe it. Give promotional or non-promotional explanations depending on the related departments.

• Conduct activities in compliance with the MHLW Guidelines for Prescription Drug Sales Information Activities.

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Ensure activities and communications are conducted in compliance with all policies, guidelines, and

regulations.

Ensure awareness of responsibility for reporting adverse events

• For all Pfizer products, observe applicable laws/regulations and the Pfizer policy, and “Gather and report

safety information*.” At an appropriate time, attend training programs on obligation of assigned safety

reporting.