Key Responsibilities
- Design, conduct and coordinate clinical and translational research activities involved in the evaluation and development of drugs within the Pfizer Oncology and non-oncology portfolio, focusing on pharmacodynamic proof-of mechanism/pharmacology, patient selection/stratification and clinical proof-of-concept (POC), and underlying disease biology of relevance to combination therapy and drug sensitivity or resistance.
- Identify and evaluate candidate predictive biomarkers and develop clinical companion diagnostic tests that will appropriately transition from early to late phase clinical development.
- Work directly with a variety of external contract research organizations/vendors as well as academic collaborators and key opinion leaders to execute and expand clinical translational research efforts.
- Work collaboratively within highly integrated, multi-functional program teams that includes scientists within Discovery Research, Research Precision Medicine, Computational Biology, Clinical Pharmacology and Development Operations groups, as well as Clinicians, Statisticians, and Asset Team Leads.
Training & Education Preferred
- Bachelor's degree in one of the disciplines related to drug development or business management is required. An advanced scientific or business degree is highly desirable.
- Previous experience in a project management role.
Behavioral Competencies
- Networking and Alliance Building: Able to work across many interfaces: clinical-regulatory; clinical-marketing; clinical-project management; clinical-development operations (biometrics, monitoring resource, study reporting)
- Influencing: be able to manage and motivate investigators and contract research organizations
- Innovation: Constantly challenge existing paradigms in clinical research and encouragebreakthrough designs; work with clinical development operations on study design, data captureand retrieval, reporting
- Courage with decisiveness to Act: Bias towards action to achieving goals
- Conflict Management: Good at focused listening; can find common ground and get cooperation with minimum noise
- 2 or more years' experience in pharmaceutical industry, CRO or academia desired