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Sr. Director, Oncology Scientific Communications
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Sr. Director, Oncology Scientific Communications
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Summary Sr. Director, Oncology Scientific Communications reports to the Team Lead Scientific Communications within Pfizer Oncology Medical Strategy Management. Leads development and execution of impactful scientific communication strategies for a number of assets within a given or multiple tumor areas. Builds relationships across enterprise partners to drive excellence and serves as a strategic thought partner within Oncology Scientific Communications and cross‑functionally to support priority business needs.
Job Responsibilities
Accountable for strategic oversight of TA scientific communication activities and the overarching scientific communications objectives/strategy/narrative, ensuring alignment and excellence in delivery.
Responsible for ensuring strategic input from a broad range of stakeholders (internal and external) is integrated into scientific communications strategic planning to meet the needs of these stakeholders and especially the Oncology Medical TA teams.
Ensure alignment of each product’s overall scientific content/communications strategy with relevant Pfizer Oncology stakeholders, taking into account the specific needs of each asset and its stage of development.
Be the point of contact for Global Product Teams, Global Medical franchises, and other Pfizer Oncology stakeholders in engaging with the external medical community on activities related to key clinical trial data readouts.
Act as a strategic thought partner to the TA Medical team, providing scientific communications functional guidance and subject matter expertise in their designated focus areas.
Lead financial projections and budget management for functional deliverables in addition to managing agencies and off‑shore teams.
Maintain a thorough understanding of their assigned therapeutic area, including policy related issues, and the individual inline and pipeline assets across the specific TAs.
Build collaborative relationships with relevant partners in and outside of Medical to ensure optimal creation and execution of channel‑specific TA medical communications 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 ensure Pfizer’s leadership both internally and externally as industry leaders.
Stay abreast of US regulations and guidance that impact digital delivery of scientific information to external HCPs.
TA Communications
Develops and maintains Scientific Communication Platforms (SCPs) for therapeutic area (TA) products, ensuring alignment with broader scientific narratives.
Leads the development of scientific engagement plans with key opinion leaders (KOLs), healthcare professionals (HCPs), and other decision‑makers.
Oversees the creation of global medical narratives and FAQs related to key data disclosures.
Collaborates with cross‑functional stakeholders (e.g., Scientific Affairs, Corporate Communications) to ensure consistent scientific messaging.
Acts as Medical Comms and Content Sub‑Team Lead.
Data Disclosure (Publications): Focus
Drives and executes data disclosure plans, including plain language summaries and enhanced publication content.
Manages author reviews and publication processes.
Chairs Scientific Publication Committees (SPCs).
Collaborates with clinical study teams to determine publication content.
Supports global product teams and other stakeholders on publication activities.
Content Focus
Leads content strategy, projects, and digital initiatives across all medical content on external and internal channels.
Defines and delivers global and regional medical content for field teams, headquarters, congresses, and digital platforms.
Ensures regular updates to global congress content in coordination with cross‑functional stakeholders.
Oversees the creation of field medical content aligned with TA and regional/local Medical Affairs needs.
Resolves content‑related issues, considering medical, patient, HCP, legal, regulatory, and customer perspectives.
Defines and delivers TA training content.
Qualifications / Skills
Bachelor’s degree with a minimum 15 years of relevant biopharmaceutical/biotech or agency experience (Medical Communications, Medical Affairs or scientific communications within Clinical Development roles).
Advanced scientific degree (PhD, PharmD, MS, etc.) preferred.
Experience developing strategic scientific communications and other scientific content to support scientific exchange.
Strong understanding of Medical Affairs, including medical strategies, disease areas, and objectives.
Ability to quickly build rapport and credibility with key internal and external stakeholders through strong interpersonal skills; strong matrix leadership.
Demonstrated ability to translate complex scientific concepts and data into meaningful and digestible communications.
Strong track record of written and oral communication skills to develop and present scientific information to varied audiences.
Strong organizational skills to track numerous tasks for multiple simultaneous projects in a deadline‑oriented environment.
Experience working in a highly regulated environment and delivering scientific content in a compliant yet innovative manner.
Experience representing a function within a matrix organization through excellent presentation, customer‑facing, and interpersonal skills.
Experience with omnichannel content development – publications, plain language summaries, Congress materials, publication extenders, podcasts, short‑form articles for 3rd‑party digital platforms.
Experience with scientific peer‑reviewed publications.
Non‑standard Work Schedule, Travel Or Environment Requirements Some travel required to support congress activities and/or attend internal meetings (~20%), including US and ex‑US locations.
Work Location Assignment Hybrid.
Salaries and Benefits The annual base salary for this position ranges from $204,700.00 to $341,100.00. 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 a share‑based long‑term incentive program.
Sunshine Act Pfizer reports payments and other transfers of value to health care providers as required by federal and state transparency laws and implementing regulations. These laws and regulations require Pfizer to provide government agencies with information such as a health care provider’s name, address and the type of payments or other value received, generally for public disclosure. Subject to further legal review and statutory or regulatory clarification, which Pfizer intends to pursue, reimbursement of recruiting expenses for licensed physicians may constitute a reportable transfer of value under the federal transparency law commonly known as the Sunshine Act. Therefore, if you are a licensed physician who incurs recruiting expenses as a result of interviewing with Pfizer that we pay or reimburse, your name, address and the amount of payments made currently will be reported to the government. If you have questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact your Talent Acquisition representative.
EEO & Employment Eligibility Pfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status. Pfizer also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA. Pfizer is an E‑Verify employer. This position requires permanent work authorization in the United States.
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Sr. Director, Oncology Scientific Communications
role at
Pfizer .
Summary Sr. Director, Oncology Scientific Communications reports to the Team Lead Scientific Communications within Pfizer Oncology Medical Strategy Management. Leads development and execution of impactful scientific communication strategies for a number of assets within a given or multiple tumor areas. Builds relationships across enterprise partners to drive excellence and serves as a strategic thought partner within Oncology Scientific Communications and cross‑functionally to support priority business needs.
Job Responsibilities
Accountable for strategic oversight of TA scientific communication activities and the overarching scientific communications objectives/strategy/narrative, ensuring alignment and excellence in delivery.
Responsible for ensuring strategic input from a broad range of stakeholders (internal and external) is integrated into scientific communications strategic planning to meet the needs of these stakeholders and especially the Oncology Medical TA teams.
Ensure alignment of each product’s overall scientific content/communications strategy with relevant Pfizer Oncology stakeholders, taking into account the specific needs of each asset and its stage of development.
Be the point of contact for Global Product Teams, Global Medical franchises, and other Pfizer Oncology stakeholders in engaging with the external medical community on activities related to key clinical trial data readouts.
Act as a strategic thought partner to the TA Medical team, providing scientific communications functional guidance and subject matter expertise in their designated focus areas.
Lead financial projections and budget management for functional deliverables in addition to managing agencies and off‑shore teams.
Maintain a thorough understanding of their assigned therapeutic area, including policy related issues, and the individual inline and pipeline assets across the specific TAs.
Build collaborative relationships with relevant partners in and outside of Medical to ensure optimal creation and execution of channel‑specific TA medical communications 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 ensure Pfizer’s leadership both internally and externally as industry leaders.
Stay abreast of US regulations and guidance that impact digital delivery of scientific information to external HCPs.
TA Communications
Develops and maintains Scientific Communication Platforms (SCPs) for therapeutic area (TA) products, ensuring alignment with broader scientific narratives.
Leads the development of scientific engagement plans with key opinion leaders (KOLs), healthcare professionals (HCPs), and other decision‑makers.
Oversees the creation of global medical narratives and FAQs related to key data disclosures.
Collaborates with cross‑functional stakeholders (e.g., Scientific Affairs, Corporate Communications) to ensure consistent scientific messaging.
Acts as Medical Comms and Content Sub‑Team Lead.
Data Disclosure (Publications): Focus
Drives and executes data disclosure plans, including plain language summaries and enhanced publication content.
Manages author reviews and publication processes.
Chairs Scientific Publication Committees (SPCs).
Collaborates with clinical study teams to determine publication content.
Supports global product teams and other stakeholders on publication activities.
Content Focus
Leads content strategy, projects, and digital initiatives across all medical content on external and internal channels.
Defines and delivers global and regional medical content for field teams, headquarters, congresses, and digital platforms.
Ensures regular updates to global congress content in coordination with cross‑functional stakeholders.
Oversees the creation of field medical content aligned with TA and regional/local Medical Affairs needs.
Resolves content‑related issues, considering medical, patient, HCP, legal, regulatory, and customer perspectives.
Defines and delivers TA training content.
Qualifications / Skills
Bachelor’s degree with a minimum 15 years of relevant biopharmaceutical/biotech or agency experience (Medical Communications, Medical Affairs or scientific communications within Clinical Development roles).
Advanced scientific degree (PhD, PharmD, MS, etc.) preferred.
Experience developing strategic scientific communications and other scientific content to support scientific exchange.
Strong understanding of Medical Affairs, including medical strategies, disease areas, and objectives.
Ability to quickly build rapport and credibility with key internal and external stakeholders through strong interpersonal skills; strong matrix leadership.
Demonstrated ability to translate complex scientific concepts and data into meaningful and digestible communications.
Strong track record of written and oral communication skills to develop and present scientific information to varied audiences.
Strong organizational skills to track numerous tasks for multiple simultaneous projects in a deadline‑oriented environment.
Experience working in a highly regulated environment and delivering scientific content in a compliant yet innovative manner.
Experience representing a function within a matrix organization through excellent presentation, customer‑facing, and interpersonal skills.
Experience with omnichannel content development – publications, plain language summaries, Congress materials, publication extenders, podcasts, short‑form articles for 3rd‑party digital platforms.
Experience with scientific peer‑reviewed publications.
Non‑standard Work Schedule, Travel Or Environment Requirements Some travel required to support congress activities and/or attend internal meetings (~20%), including US and ex‑US locations.
Work Location Assignment Hybrid.
Salaries and Benefits The annual base salary for this position ranges from $204,700.00 to $341,100.00. 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 a share‑based long‑term incentive program.
Sunshine Act Pfizer reports payments and other transfers of value to health care providers as required by federal and state transparency laws and implementing regulations. These laws and regulations require Pfizer to provide government agencies with information such as a health care provider’s name, address and the type of payments or other value received, generally for public disclosure. Subject to further legal review and statutory or regulatory clarification, which Pfizer intends to pursue, reimbursement of recruiting expenses for licensed physicians may constitute a reportable transfer of value under the federal transparency law commonly known as the Sunshine Act. Therefore, if you are a licensed physician who incurs recruiting expenses as a result of interviewing with Pfizer that we pay or reimburse, your name, address and the amount of payments made currently will be reported to the government. If you have questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact your Talent Acquisition representative.
EEO & Employment Eligibility Pfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status. Pfizer also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA. Pfizer is an E‑Verify employer. This position requires permanent work authorization in the United States.
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