Oncology Patient Solutions, Director, Advocacy & Professional Relations

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Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree is required; advanced degree such as MBA strongly preferred.
• Account Management, Area Business Manager, Medical Affairs or similar level experience is preferred.
• Minimum of ten years plus of pharmaceutical industry experience at or above senior manager level role (i.e. account management, marketing, business operations, medical affairs, policy, public affairs)
• Experience working successfully in a matrix environment across multiple functions, including with both US and Global teams.
• Significant experience in the oncology marketplace, with an understanding of how to frame complex challenges in an understandable way in a solutions-oriented approach to the organization.
• Demonstrated success leading large, complex, national external organization relationships

Responsibilities:

• Maintain expertise on forces driving national oncology patient and professional organizations, with a focus on professional society leadership.
• Translate understanding of these dynamics into strategic imperatives with various Pfizer teams.
• Directly engage in a partnership with the public affairs and policy oncology team regarding communication of activities and partnerships within the cancer community
• Elevate and empower the patient voice through collaborative partnerships with patient advocacy and professional partners, as well as internally at Pfizer
• Collaborate with Patient Advocacy and Professional partners to co-create resources addressing unmet patient needs and scale distribution through external partners and Pfizer to place health information at people’s fingertips
• Directly engage with internal and external partners to close the equity gap for patients with a focus on issues related to access medicines and healthcare.
• Directly manage relationships with national cancer patient advocacy and professional organizations currently managed in the Advocacy & Professional Relations team.
• Identify the select "critical few" priorities and mobilize robust cross-functional work streams requiring leadership across Marketing, Sales, Key Account Management, Public Affairs/Policy, Global Patient Advocacy, Medical, and others.