Sr Director, RWE Epidemiology Scientist
Sr Director, RWE Epidemiology Scientist
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Role Summary
This Sr. Director RWE/Epidemiology role will assume a leadership and global role within the Vaccines Real-World Evidence (RWE) and Epidemiology group and serve as team lead for the RSV Older Adult COVID/FLU & Pipeline Team. The senior director will lead a team of scientists conducting epidemiologic studies and generating real-world evidence on disease burden vaccine effectiveness and vaccine impact to support the RSV in older adults COVID/Flu and Pipeline Vaccines. The incumbent must operate as both a subject matter expert in RWE and epidemiology as well as strategic thought partner and collaborator with TA Medical colleagues TA Research Units and the CMO organization (Regulatory Safety DS&A Medical Enablement & Quality). Evidence generated from these studies will be used to inform vaccine recommendations utilization and development and licensure of pipeline vaccines.
This is a high-level position that requires skill and experience with field epidemiology infectious disease surveillance and database studies. In addition to leading the RSV older adult COVID/FLU & Pipeline RWE/Epi team the role will involve managing scientific aspects of complicated long-term projects interacting with external vaccine experts and integrating within a multi-disciplinary team at Pfizer. This position is part of a newly formed Vaccines RWE/epidemiology team and will work cross-functionally with collaborators spanning PCV Medical teams Research Units and the Chief Medical Officer organization (Medical Evidence Generation Regulatory Safety Data Sciences & Analytics Medical Enablement & Quality) to design execute and disseminate results from studies. This role is accountable for the quality timeliness efficiency and strategic value for RWE/Epi deliverables produced by their team. In this role the incumbent will cultivate innovation cross-functional collaboration and identify opportunities for RWE/Epi to increase the value and success of RSV older adult COVID/FLU and Pipeline vaccines.
Role Responsibilities
In this role you will:
- Lead a team of scientists conducting epidemiologic/RWE studies to support RSV older adult COVID/FLU and Pipeline vaccines.
- Manage a diverse talent pipeline & create a culture of growth and continuous learning
- Stakeholder management: build coalitions & develop strong partnerships across disciplines & geographies to optimize RWE/Epi teams performance / contribution.
- Candidate demonstrates a breadth of diverse leadership experiences and capabilities including: the ability to influence and collaborate with peers develop and coach others oversee and guide the work of other colleagues to achieve meaningful outcomes and create business impact.
- Provide subject matter expertise and thought leadership to advance Pfizers use of RWE/Epi for regulatory purposes and to develop high-value vaccines.
- Partner with MEG Asset Leads to ensure strategic alignment of all RSV older adult COVID/FLU & Pipeline vaccine RWE/Epi studies.
- Lead epidemiology studies both field studies involving primary data collection and secondary analyses of real-world data.
- Author and review study protocols reports presentations (internally and at scientific conferences) and peer-reviewed manuscripts.
- Provide input to all aspects of study design (e.g. methodology protocols analytic plans) for high priority epidemiologic and other scientific studies of importance for RSV older adult COVID/Flu and Pipeline vaccine issues such as Vaccine Technical Committee recommendations schedules public payer options.
- Work with internal and external experts in statistics and data analysis to analyze and interpret data from RWE/Epi vaccine studies.
- Be accountable for the collection of epidemiologic and other scientific data necessary for developing vaccine product labels.
Qualifications
- Advanced degree including a PhD (preferred) in Epidemiology or a related discipline and 7 years of relevant experience in the pharmaceutical academic and/or medical or public health environments; an MD (preferred) with 5 years of relevant experience as previously stated; or an MPH or another relevant Masters degree and 10 years of relevant experience previously stated.
- Subject matter expertise in vaccinology and infectious disease epidemiology.
- Subject matter expertise in at least one of the following areas: RSV COVID Influenza
- Strong epidemiological and statistical methods skills used in observational and non-interventional studies.
- At least 7 years of experience in vaccine-related or vaccine-preventable disease related medical/scientific activities including research clinical development epidemiologic and immunization programs.
- Experience operating within large cross-functional matrices and collaborating with multiple partners.
- Demonstrated effectiveness as a strategic partner to key internal stakeholders.
- Knowledgeable of the external regulatory environment for real-world evidence and maintains awareness of scientific developments in epidemiology medicine and technology (e.g. artificial intelligence)
- Strong creative problem-solving and communication skills.
- Proven hands-on experience leading and executing non-interventional (NI) studies from protocol design delivery of results and clinical study report.
- Experience directing analyses of real-world data for example using large databases from health care systems containing ICD-10 codes or claims data.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills including scientific writing skills as evidence by lead authorship in at least 5 peer-reviewed publications in English.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrated strong work ethic and proven track record of delivering high quality results within timelines.
- Able to review evaluate interpret and present complex data; understand the emerging safety and efficacy profile of Pfizer vaccines.
- Significant cross-functional leadership experience.
- Documented ability to manage projects to completion.
- Documented ability to take a relevant vaccine or vaccine-preventable disease epidemiology project from start to end including conception design protocol analytic plan implementation analysis and reporting and interpretation of results.
Candidate demonstrates a breadth of diverse leadership experiences and capabilities including: the ability to influence and collaborate with peers develop and coach others oversee and guide the work of other colleagues to achieve meaningful outcomes and create business impact.
Relocation support available
Work Location Assignment:Hybrid
Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.
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 providers 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.
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
