Sr. Director, Oncology Scientific Communications

Pfizer, S.A. de C.V; Deutschland; Hybrid; EUR 178.000 - 297.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A global biopharmaceutical leader is seeking a Sr. Director of Oncology Scientific Communications to develop and execute impactful strategies across tumor areas. The ideal candidate has over 15 years of experience in biopharmaceuticals, a bachelor's degree, and advanced scientific credentials preferred. This role requires excellent communication and interpersonal skills to foster collaboration across teams and ensure alignment with medical priorities. Compensation includes a competitive salary and benefits.

Leistungen

401(k) plan with company matching

Paid vacation and personal days

Health benefits including medical and dental coverage

Relocation assistance

Qualifikationen

• Minimum 15 years of relevant experience in medical communications or affairs.
• Strong understanding of Medical Affairs and disease areas.
• Experience in a regulated environment with scientific content.

Aufgaben

• Lead development of scientific communication strategies across multiple tumor areas.
• Forge relationships with enterprise partners for strategic thought.
• Ensure execution of communication activities aligns with strategy.

Kenntnisse

Biopharmaceutical/biotech experience

Strategic scientific communications

Interpersonal skills

Excellent written communication

Strong organizational skills

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree

Advanced scientific degree (PhD, PharmD, MS)

Jobbeschreibung

Sr. Director, Oncology Scientific Communications

• United States - New York - New York City
• United States - Pennsylvania - Collegeville
• United States - Washington - Seattle

We’re in relentless pursuit of breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. We innovate every day to make the world a healthier place.

To fully realize Pfizer’s purpose – Breakthroughs that change patients’ lives – 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.

Pfizer Research & Development serves as the beating heart of Pfizer's trailblazing product pipeline, the essence of our mission to bring life‑changing medicines to the world.

Pfizer offers competitive compensation and benefits programs designed to meet the diverse needs of our colleagues.

Role Overview

Sr. Director, Oncology Scientific Communications reports to the Team Lead Scientific Communications within Pfizer Oncology Medical Strategy Management. The role leads the development and execution of impactful scientific communication strategies across one or more tumor areas, builds relationships across enterprise partners, and serves as a strategic thought partner to support priority business needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead development and execution of scientific communication strategies for assets within assigned or multiple tumor areas.
• Forge relationships across enterprise partners to drive excellence and serve as a strategic thought partner within Oncology Scientific Communications.
• Advance the impact of Oncology Scientific Communications organization‑wide, shaping a singular scientific voice anchored to evidence.
• Ensure tactical execution of medical and scientific communication activities aligns with strategy, optimizing engagement and reach of emerging scientific information within the oncology community.
• Act as subject‑matter expert in one of the following capabilities:
  • Therapeutic Area (TA) Scientific Communications – integrate asset strategies and messaging into TA‑specific plans, deliver foundational resources such as SCPs, narratives, and FAQs.
  • Data Disclosure (Publications) – drive publication planning, writing, and dissemination of scientific data from clinical trials and research activities.
  • Medical Content – create engaging scientific content for diverse channels and audiences, including medical‑to‑medical resources, congress and digital platform content.
• Provide strategic oversight of TA scientific communication activities and the overarching scientific communication objectives/strategy/narrative.
• Integrate strategic input from internal and external stakeholders into scientific communication planning.
• Align each product’s scientific content/communication strategy with relevant Pfizer Oncology stakeholders, ensuring alignment with medical priorities.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for global product teams and other stakeholders regarding external medical community engagement on key clinical trial data readouts.
• Lead cross‑functional planning for major data disclosures and ensure alignment with Oncology Learning Team priorities.
• Provide scientific communication functional guidance and subject‑matter expertise to the TA Medical Team.
• Lead financial projections, budget management for functional deliverables, and manage agencies and offshore teams where applicable.
• Maintain comprehensive understanding of assigned therapeutic area, policies, and pipeline assets.
• Build collaborative relationships with internal and external partners to optimize creation and execution of channel‑specific TA medical communication strategies.
• Navigate complex stakeholder matrix to lead cross‑category medical initiatives, harmonize ways of working and build best‑practice sharing forums.
• Lead best practice development and proactive benchmarking analyses to position Pfizer as an industry leader.
• Stay abreast of US regulations and guidance impacting digital delivery of scientific information to external HCPs.
• Specific TA Communications tasks: develop and maintain SCPs, lead engagement plans with KOLs and HCPs, oversee global medical narratives and FAQs, collaborate with cross‑functional stakeholders, and lead sub‑team roles.
• Data Disclosure focus tasks: drive and execute data disclosure plans, manage author reviews and publication processes, chair Scientific Publication Committees, collaborate with clinical study teams, and support global product teams.
• Content focus tasks: lead content strategy and digital initiatives, define and deliver global and regional content, update congress content, oversee field medical content, resolve content‑related issues, and deliver TA training content.

Qualifications & Skills

• Minimum 15 years of relevant biopharmaceutical/biotech or agency experience (e.g., Medical Communications, Medical Affairs, or scientific communications within Clinical Development).
• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced scientific degree (PhD, PharmD, MS, etc.) preferred.
• Experience developing strategic scientific communications and other scientific content to support scientific exchange, including use of tools and programs to meet the needs of HCPs.
• Strong understanding of Medical Affairs, including medical strategies, disease areas, and objectives.
• Strong interpersonal skills and matrix leadership; ability to build rapport and credibility with key internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex scientific concepts into digestible communications across multiple channels, including scientific conferences.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills to develop and present scientific information to varied audiences.
• Strong organizational skills to manage numerous tasks for multiple simultaneous projects, deadline‑oriented.
• Experience working in a highly regulated environment and delivering scientific content in a compliant yet innovative manner, leveraging latest technologies.
• Experience representing a function within a matrix organization through strong presentation, customer‑facing, and interpersonal skills.
• Experience with omnichannel content development – publications, plain language summaries, congress materials, publication extenders, podcasts, short‑form articles for third‑party digital platforms.
• Experience with scientific peer‑reviewed publications.

Additional Experience

Candidate demonstrates a breadth of diverse leadership experiences and capabilities including influencing and collaborating with peers, developing and coaching others, overseeing and guiding the work of colleagues to achieve meaningful outcomes, and creating business impact.

Travel & Work Location

Some travel required to support congress activities and/or attend internal meetings (~20%), including US and ex‑US locations.

Work Location Assignment: Hybrid.

Compensation & Benefits

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $204,700.00 to $341,100.00 (United States). The position is eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 22.5% of the base salary and eligibility to participate in the share‑based long‑term incentive program. Benefits include a 401(k) plan with Pfizer matching contributions, additional retirement savings contribution, paid vacation, holiday and personal days, paid caregiver/parental and medical leave, and health benefits (medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage). See Pfizer Candidate Site – U.S. Benefits for additional information. The annual base salary ranges for Tampa, FL are $184,200.00 to $307,000.00.

Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.

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EEO & Employment Eligibility

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