Medical Manager, Rare Disease

2 weeks ago

Sydney, Australia Pfizer Full time

What You Will Achieve

The Medical Manager, Rare Disease role is an opportunity to shape and expand the future of medical affairs at Pfizer and across industries to achieve our aspiration and fulfill our purpose of leading breakthroughs that change patients’ lives.

Working with the Rare Disease Medical Lead, the role provides medical leadership for the Rare Disease assets. A central focus of the role is to analyse medical insights, identify clinical data gaps, generate relevant evidence, and communicate medical data effectively through a coordinated medical omnichannel strategy. Close partnership with Collective Advantage functions including Medical Content, Evidence Generation, Field Medical, Medical Excellence and Medical Governance and Enablement is essential.

The Medical Manager, Rare Disease will actively collaborate with cross-functional partners, internal and external stakeholders, and cross-business medical affairs functions to implement and execute plans and strategies. Stakeholders include but are not limited to Commercial, Regulatory Affairs, Market Access, Medical Information, Drug Safety, Clinical Research and Corporate Compliance. The role will also maintain an ongoing external relationship and partnership with healthcare specialists, key opinion leaders, researchers, and investigators, advancing science and research and enhancing Pfizer reputation and recognition.

How you will achieve it
- The Medical Manager, Rare Disease role is responsible for medical leadership in the Medical Affairs function of the Rare Disease portfolio.
- The role reports directly to the Medical Lead, Rare Disease in Australia and New Zealand.
- The Medical manager (MM) is directly responsible for supporting the business by providing medical, scientific, managerial and technical support for the products in their defined therapeutic areas.
- The role also acts as an advisor and consultant providing medical input and review to various medical department groups which support the products, including medical information, medical compliance, medical operations, drug safety and regulatory.
- In addition, the role acts as a consultant to provide medical and scientific advice to platform and enabling functions within the Pfizer business, including outcomes research, regulatory affairs, market access and business analytics.
- The MM is responsible for developing, driving and implementing product medical strategy and aligning these with commercial and other functions.
- The role has an important focus on interacting with the Global and Regional TA teams to ensure alignment and consistency across countries and regions and as such, may need to attend teleconferences with global colleagues, such as Medical Scientific Subcommittees, outside of routine working hours.
- A key aspect of the role is to facilitate interaction between key opinion leaders (KOLs), academia and Pfizer. The MM is responsible for ensuring the Company’s adherence to high standards of conduct in all its dealings with the medical profession, supporting health care disciplines and with consumers.
- The MM is pro-actively involved in supporting all aspects of a product’s appropriate positioning and usage medically and in accordance with current scientific evidence in order to enhance the product’s value in accordance with evidence-based medicine and the general principles of the quality use of medicines.
- The MM is responsible for engendering a management culture that is in accordance with the Pfizer core values and ensuring that Medical Affairs ethical and professional values are adhered to in all actions and activities.

**Qualifications**:
Must Have
- Tertiary education in medicine or a health science related discipline; relevant specialty training desirable
- Deep understanding of life sciences, pharmaceuticals, and/or healthcare industry; experience in the Rare Disease therapeutic area is desirable
- Experience with medical affairs management of assets within the pharmaceutical industry (i.e. regulatory and PBAC submissions) - desirable
- Strong track record of networking and collaborations
- Executive presence and demonstrated ability to effectively influence and lead others
- Strong managerial, organisational, and communication (e.g., writing, presentation, etc.) skills
- Experience in leading cross-functional and cross-categorical projects and initiatives
- Ability to thrive under pressure, uphold accountability, and meet deadlines
- Ability to identify risks and remove roadblocks to enable success
- Role model of Pfizer’s values and behaviours (Courage, Excellence, Equity, Joy)

Nice-to-Have
- Medical Qualifications or PhD in relevant area
- Pharmaceutical Industry experience (3 - 5 years +)
- Good working knowledge of relevant industry and professional Codes of Conduct and Practice in both Australia and New Zealand

Work Location Assignment: Flexible

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