ROLE SUMMARY
The Medical Lead, Vietnam/Thailand Cluster is a senior Medical Affairs leadership role responsible for defining, driving, and delivering the medical strategy across assigned therapeutic areas in alignment with CMAO Medical vision, mission, and purpose.
The Medical Lead provides strategic medical leadership, ensures scientific integrity, and enables patient‑centric decision making across the product lifecycle—from early pipeline through launch and in‑line optimization. The role acts as a critical medical partner to internal stakeholders and external healthcare ecosystems, ensuring that medical activities meaningfully advance patient outcomes, healthcare standards, and Pfizer’s scientific credibility.
The Medical Lead is accountable for embedding CMAO priorities—patients first, scientific excellence, compliance, and enterprise thinking—while translating global and regional medical strategies into impactful, compliant, and locally relevant execution across the Vietnam/Thailand cluster.
Geographic area covered by the role: Primary accountability for Vietnam and Thailand, with contributions to Indochina countries (Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos) as required under the cluster and Emerging Markets framework.
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Cluster Franchise/Therapeutic Areas Medical Leadership: Provides leadership across assigned franchises / therapeutic areas within the Vietnam–Thailand cluster, ensuring cohesive medical strategy, prioritization, and execution across markets under the new cluster operating model.
- Strategic Medical Ownership Across the Lifecycle: Leads medical input for pipeline assessment, launch readiness, in‑line product strategy, and lifecycle management, partnering closely with Regional and Global Medical teams to ensure strategic alignment and scientific rigor.
- Enterprise Medical Partnering: Acts as a trusted medical advisor to Commercial, Market Access, Regulatory, and other cross‑functional stakeholders, ensuring medical perspectives shape key business decisions while maintaining a clear separation between medical and promotional activities.
- External Scientific Engagement & Thought Leadership: Oversees high‑quality, non‑promotional engagement with healthcare professionals, scientific experts, academic institutions, and medical societies to advance scientific exchange, evidence generation, and unmet medical need identification.
- Medical Governance & Compliance: Ensures all medical activities, materials, and scientific interactions comply with Pfizer policies, CMAO standards, local regulations, and industry codes, safeguarding scientific credibility and ethical conduct across the cluster.
- Evidence Generation & Research Enablement: Provides medical oversight and leadership for Investigator Sponsored Research (ISR), real‑world evidence initiatives, and selected Pfizer‑sponsored studies outside of Clinical Development, aligned with strategic medical priorities.
- People & Capability Development: Supports the development, coaching, and performance of Medical Affairs colleagues (including Field Medical where applicable), strengthening medical capabilities and fostering a high‑performing, future‑ready Medical Affairs organization.
- In‑Country Medical Point of Contact (as assigned): Acts as the designated in‑country medical point of contact for Vietnam or Thailand (as assigned), representing Medical Affairs in interactions with local internal stakeholders, healthcare systems, and external scientific bodies, while operating within the Vietnam–Thailand cluster governance model.
- Local Medical Accountability within Cluster Framework: Provides country‑level medical leadership and accountability for assigned markets, ensuring alignment between local medical needs, cluster priorities, and Global/Regional medical strategies.
The Medical Lead role is considered as HQ Medical role
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Medical Degree (MD, MBBS or equivalent), or an advanced degree in Medical, Pharmaceutical, Biomedical, or Life Sciences (e.g. PharmD, PhD, MSc) with strong clinical and scientific grounding.
- Solid foundational knowledge in clinical medicine, disease biology, and evidence‑based healthcare decision making.
- Minimum 5 years of experience within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or healthcare industry, with demonstrated progression in Medical Affairs, Clinical Research, or related scientific roles.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Deep understanding of assigned therapeutic areas, including disease landscape, current standards of care, emerging science, and unmet medical needs.
- Strong capability to critically evaluate clinical trial data, real‑world evidence, and scientific literature, and translate insights into medical strategy and scientific exchange.
- Ability to communicate complex scientific information clearly, accurately, and credibly to both internal and external stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to operate at a strategic level, shaping medical direction across the product lifecycle rather than executing activities in isolation.
- Strong enterprise mindset with the ability to balance patient needs, scientific integrity, compliance requirements, and business priorities.
- Experience contributing to pipeline assessment, launch readiness, and lifecycle management from a medical perspective.
- Proven leadership capability in a matrix and cluster environment, with the ability to influence without direct authority.
- Experience coaching, developing, and inspiring Medical Affairs colleagues to build high‑performing, future‑ready teams.
- Ability to role‑model CMAO behaviors, including accountability, collaboration, courage, and continuous learning.
- Strong capability to build trusted, non‑promotional relationships with healthcare professionals, key opinion leaders, academic institutions, and scientific organizations.
- Experience leading high‑quality scientific exchange and representing the company as a credible medical and scientific partner.
- Cultural sensitivity and adaptability when engaging across multiple countries and healthcare systems within a cluster model.
- Demonstrated success partnering with Commercial, Market Access, Regulatory, and other internal functions while maintaining appropriate medical independence.
- Ability to provide clear, balanced medical advice that enables sound decision making and risk management.
- Skilled at navigating complex organizational environments and aligning diverse stakeholders around shared medical priorities.
- Strong understanding of local and international pharmaceutical regulations, industry codes, and internal compliance standards governing Medical Affairs activities.
- Consistent track record of upholding the highest standards of scientific integrity, ethics, and patient focus.
- Ability to proactively identify and manage medical, scientific, and compliance risks.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English; proficiency in local languages is an advantage.
- Strong presentation, facilitation, and influencing skills across senior internal and external audiences.
- High level of professionalism, resilience, and adaptability in a dynamic and evolving organizational environment.
PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS
- Ability to travel domestically and within the Vietnam–Thailand cluster as required to support scientific engagement, leadership meetings, and medical activities, which may involve prolonged periods of sitting, standing, and walking during meetings, site visits, and scientific events.
- Ability to sustain prolonged periods of focused cognitive effort to review, analyze, and interpret complex clinical, scientific, and medical data, including clinical trial results, real‑world evidence, and scientific literature.
- Ability to perform complex analytical reasoning and judgment, including evaluation of scientific evidence, benefit–risk considerations, and medical governance decisions under time‑sensitive conditions.
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities and high levels of cognitive load, including strategic planning, issue management, and cross‑functional decision making, often across different countries and time zones.
- Ability to maintain mental resilience and sustained attention in situations involving scientific debate, regulatory or compliance considerations, and medical issue escalation.
Ability to participate in extended meetings, workshops, and scientific discussions, including virtual and in‑person formats, which may require prolonged concentration and situational awareness.
Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.
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