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(Senior) Medical Affairs Scientist Cardiovascular

(12M secondment/ 12M temporary assignment)

Location: Brussels

About the role

The country (senior) medical affairs scientist cardiovascular is a unique role; you are the trusted strategic scientific ambassador with national medical affairs responsibility for the respective brands of the cardiovascular Rare Diseases within the specialty care and hospital portfolio.

This is a temporary assignment of 12 months to facilitate a secondment of a medical affairs colleague. The MAS will lead efforts in partnership with the Specialty Care Medical Lead and local cross-functional teams to develop and drive medical affairs strategies in-country for the cardiovascular and hospital infectious disease area. The MAS will drive the launch preparations for a new breakthrough medicine.

In Specialty Care we cultivate a mindset in collaboration, accountability, and integrity and bring medical expertise of the world’s largest biopharmaceutical company to make a difference for patients and their families.

Main responsibilities

The MAS cardiovascular within the Belgian specialty care team is a highly motivated MD or PhD in (Pharmaceutical) Sciences with a passion for high quality and relevant physician engagement based upon their own clinical and scientific credibility. The person is a trusted scientific ambassador providing strategic medical and scientific input to allocated medical activities for the Pfizer Biopharmaceuticals Group all cardiology in-line and pipeline assets.

• Medical expertise: Be the key medical expert with full understanding of the environment, competitors, customers, and patient needs to build country medical strategic and RWE plans as well as budget management. Be a key partner in the XFT bubble for cardiology to provide key scientific input into XFT strategy. Through key internal and external partnerships, the medical affairs scientist will ensure that medical plans are successfully implemented to achieve short- and long-term objectives.

• Customer facing: Building and maintaining meaningful diverse external stakeholder interactions with key customers with specific focus on targeted HCP’s.

About you

• Master in medicine or PhD in relevant science area, with strong skills and/or clinical experience.

• 4 to 7 years of biopharmaceutical industry experience or postgraduate experience preferably in cardiology.

• Familiar with clinical research and clinical study design.

• Facilitate open discussion and debate among key stakeholders and build internal and external relationships through partnering, anticipating needs, fulfilling expectations. 

• Fluency in English (C2), Dutch (C2) or French (C2) required

What do we offer?

Innovative company Pfizer has a pipeline full of innovative medicines for a variety of conditions. As a Pfizer colleague, you'll have the opportunity to maximize the impact of medicines for patients in a variety of ways. In short, you make a real difference.

Development opportunities We are always looking for top talent. We believe you will never stop learning and there will always be a new opportunity for your development. That is why we have broad opportunities in the Belux organization. There are regular opportunities for training or to gain experience in a different field or even advancement to an international position.

A culture where you can be yourself We are a large, international organization with people from all over the world. At Pfizer everyone should be able to be themselves, that's what we strive for and live by.

Work/life balance At Pfizer, we know that if you really want to make an impact on people's lives, it's important that your people are at their best. That's why we offer our colleagues good working conditions, such as an appropriate salary and opportunities to work from home. Working a lot of overtime is not the norm for us. We also believe that work and having fun should go hand in hand. That's why, for example, you can participate in all kinds of activities outside of work.

Are you interested?

Do you know enough and have you decided to respond? We are curious about you and invite you to submit your application & motivation letter via the apply button below. We keep looking until we have found the right candidate for this position.

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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