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Explore hand-picked jobs in Japan for English speakers across tech, education, marketing, and more.
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Explore hand-picked jobs in Japan for English speakers across tech, education, marketing, and more.
Vetted companies only. Apply from overseas.
PfizerThe MAS roles are hybrid in responsibilities. Specific roles in teams can vary between 80% field with 20% head office activity to 80% head office activity with 20% field activity. This is a continuum and not fixed and will vary based on business needs. Rarely there may be a role that is 100% Field. Be the Pfizer Japan medical scientific point of contact for HCPs, medical societies, regulators, academia and other external stakeholders. Play a central role as a scientific and medical leader who can identify unmet medical needs, contribute to building and executing medical plans and establish clinical evidence. Demonstrate medical and scientific leadership and expertise by ensuring the highest scientific standards during internal and external activities to provide deep medical and scientific expertise. Develop local medical plans aligned with global medical plans to address local unmet medical needs and fill data gaps, and contribute to the implementation of local medical strategies and life cycle clinical plans for inline and pipeline medicines and vaccines. Provide and exchange medical and scientific information for and from medical facilities in the assigned area and external stakeholders, and contribute to decisions on medical strategies for assigned products to ensure their safe, proper, and effective use. Drive heightened understanding of the burden of disease in the assigned therapeutic area and the medical attributes of products to enhance safe and efficacious use. Contribute to department and team goals and participate in cross-organizational projects as a core member, providing guidance to deliver results. Develop and execute medical plans aligned with medical strategy to meet unmet medical needs in assigned products and therapeutic areas. Identify unmet medical needs and healthcare disparities, and execute customer-facing medical activities, including unbiased medical and scientific communication with HCPs and other relevant individuals and organizations, medical advisory board meetings, educational seminars, data-generation initiatives, medical-material creation, and necessary scientific input. Create activity plans with senior medical management to address unmet needs and data gaps. Develop the customer-facing part of medical plans to establish collaborative scientific relationships with stakeholders. Provide subject-matter expertise and high-quality scientific exchange, bringing formal and informal insights into the organization to shape strategy. Collaborate with medical stakeholders as a scientific expert for HCPs, medical societies, academia, and others. Establish strong collaborative scientific relationships through non-promotional activities such as scientific exchanges using the latest research papers and follow-up on academic conference presentations. Maintain a comprehensive stakeholder map and communicate effectively and agilely at an expert level. Follow up on clinical investigator-sponsored research and medical grants in compliance with Pfizer policies. Acquire and maintain extensive, up-to-date medical and pharmaceutical information in the assigned area to identify unmet needs and support medical strategy. Deliver key medical and scientific activities within the medical plan, such as high-quality educational materials, real-world evidence generation, non-interventional studies, database studies, and registries in collaboration with the Health & Value team, and ensure timely publication of data. Establish reliable, long-term stakeholder relationships. Enhance opportunities to create evidence based on medical needs by sharing customer insights through constructive cross-functional partnerships. Optimize patient centricity in medical communications and deliverables, incorporating health literacy and cultural awareness principles. Establish enduring peer-to-peer scientific relationships with leading HCPs and specialists, including non-traditional partners and key decision makers. Maintain and enhance cross-BU alignment on metrics. Collect necessary information and analyze insights before meetings to provide deep medical and scientific expertise. Align, contribute, and collaborate with relevant internal stakeholders. Provide expert, HCP, and relevant feedback on product life-cycle strategies to related company divisions and departments. Share medical and scientific information and insights within appropriate limits and ways for Marketing colleagues to develop brand plans. Provide scientific input for scientific meetings and materials, and provide medical education programs with medical societies or relevant stakeholders. Collaborate in clinical development by providing medical and scientific input into protocol feasibility assessments for clinical trial proposals. Work with Development Japan and global development to identify appropriate investigators and sites for Pfizer-sponsored clinical trials. Work with clinical research and Development Japan colleagues, and above-country and global BU colleagues, to drive timely completion of Pfizer-sponsored clinical trials. Demonstrate scientific and medical leadership and provide input to global clinical teams and Development Japan to ensure trial designs and selection address Japan’s needs, leveraging customer and patient insights, and support clinical development programs and regulatory interactions from early development. Contribute to product and therapeutic-area medical strategy and provide medical and scientific advice internally and externally to assure appropriate product use and patient safety, aligned with short- and long-term business goals. Provide accurate, high-quality, unbiased medical information to HCPs and external experts, including managing unsolicited medical requests. Provide scientific insight and support to field- and head-office-based commercial colleagues. Collaborate with in-country and above-country cross-functional teams to develop impactful and compliant promotional and non-promotional materials of value to customers. Collect and share HCP and stakeholder insights to inform medical strategy and business opportunities. Manage local advisory boards to gain customer insights. If media-trained, present the scientific perspective on selected topics during media briefings. Observe the code of conduct, company regulations, and compliance requirements; communicate with related departments and exercise leadership in POJ. Ensure awareness of and compliance with the Medical Affairs code of conduct for external medical interactions, and provide promotional or non-promotional explanations depending on the related departments. Conduct activities in compliance with MHLW Guidelines for Prescription Drug Sales Information Activities. Ensure activities and communications comply with all policies, guidelines, and regulations. For all Pfizer products, observe applicable laws, regulations, and Pfizer policy, and gather and report safety information. Attend training programs on assigned safety-reporting obligations at an appropriate time. As needed, contribute to business development in assigned areas. In collaboration with Japan Medical Lead, Japan Medical Product Lead, Global MA members, and other relevant functions, identify unmet medical needs and candidate therapies for potential medical interventions in Japan through medical activities such as advisory boards and consultations with medical experts, while maintaining confidentiality. Rapidly respond to critical supply issues from a medical perspective, such as through rapid communications with academic societies and regulatory authorities.
- 4-year university undergraduate degree and a master’s degree in life science; or - Pharmacists: 4-year university graduates with a pharmacist license and a master’s degree or equivalent life science research experience, or 6-year university graduates with a pharmacist license; or - Nurses with a master’s degree; or - Veterinarians; or - Dentists; or - MDs - Medical/pharmaceutical expert knowledge of the therapeutic disease area and products. - Ability to communicate appropriately and build good relationships with internal and external stakeholders. - Ability to collaborate effectively with teams and across functions, demonstrating Pfizer’s Values & Behaviors and agility to learn from others. - Ability to conduct medical discussions with relevant departments and external HCPs. - Understanding of compliance and relevant pharmaceutical-industry laws and regulations, and advocacy for appropriate product use. - Appropriate knowledge and understanding of internal organizational structure, key stakeholders, and strategies. - Ability to quickly acquire necessary medical and scientific knowledge and skills through self-learning. - Able to understand written and spoken English and Japanese in the assigned therapeutic disease area and scientific interactions. - Minimum TOEIC score of 730.
- MD (clinical experience and board certification preferred). - PhD in Life Science. - MA/DJ experience and/or research experience. - Scientific publication experience.
- Health and disability insurance, preventive health programs, medical screenings, free or reduced-cost vaccinations, discounts on Pfizer products, mental health support, and nutrition and fitness counseling. - Company contributions to retirement plans, life insurance, and financial planning education. - Vacation, holiday time, sick time, 12-week parental leave for both parents of a newborn, 10 days of caregiver leave, bereavement leave, and additional country-specific programs. - Depending on country and site, childcare facilities or discount programs, on-site health and fitness centers, movement and mindfulness solutions, and work flexibility.
