Leads Pfizer’s patient advocacy strategy in China, builds partnerships with patient and healthcare organizations, integrates patient insights into policy and medicine lifecycle decisions, and advises executives on advocacy, reputation, access, and stakeholder engagement. The role develops coalitions, represents Pfizer externally, and collaborates across public affairs, communications, medical, regulatory, research, digital, and commercial teams.
Responsibilities
Core Competencies
Key Relationships
Internal: Patient Advocacy leadership; Policy and Public Affairs; Communications; Commercial; Medical; Regulatory Affairs; Digital; Research and Development; and other enterprise stakeholders.
External: Patient and professional advocacy organizations, community and provider groups, trade associations, policy thought leaders and other relevant partners.
Qualifications
Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.
To learn more about acceptable and prohibited uses of AI during the recruitment process, please review our candidate AI-use guidelines available on Pfizer Careers .
Public Affairs & Communication
- Set and lead the country/regional patient advocacy strategy, aligned with business, policy and reputation priorities.
- Build trusted, long-term partnerships with patient, professional, community and trade organizations; serve as the senior point of contact for priority relationships.
- Bring patient insights and the patient voice into policy, research, development, medical and commercial decision-making across the medicine lifecycle.
- Create coalitions and collaborative platforms that advance shared policy priorities, improve access to medicines and vaccines, and strengthen patient education.
- Advise senior leaders on emerging patient, policy and reputation opportunities and risks, with clear short-, medium- and long-term action plans.
- Partner across Policy and Public Affairs, Communications, Digital, WRDM (Worldwide Research, Development and Medical), GPD (Global Product Development) and business teams to scale patient-engagement standards, tools and best practices.
- Represent Pfizer in relevant external forums and advisory bodies and lead high-impact advocacy engagements and events.
Core Competencies
- Strategic leadership and sound judgment
- Patient organization management and trusted relationship building
- Influence, collaboration and coalition building
- Clear, credible executive communication
- Execution, accountability and agility
Key Relationships
Internal: Patient Advocacy leadership; Policy and Public Affairs; Communications; Commercial; Medical; Regulatory Affairs; Digital; Research and Development; and other enterprise stakeholders.
External: Patient and professional advocacy organizations, community and provider groups, trade associations, policy thought leaders and other relevant partners.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree in public health, public policy or a related field preferred.
- At least 14 years of experience in patient advocacy, patient engagement, public affairs or a related field, including experience in the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry.
- Track record of setting strategy and delivering measurable advocacy, stakeholder-engagement and partnership outcomes in a complex matrix organization.
- Extensive experience in managing patient organizations and building trusted, long-term relationships with them.
- Strong understanding of the healthcare environment and the ability to translate business needs and patient priorities into integrated advocacy plans.
- Excellent executive communication, influence and issue-management skills, including experience in crisis and reputation management.
- Strategic, innovative and results-oriented leader who can operate independently, collaborate across functions and engage effectively at all organizational levels.
Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.
To learn more about acceptable and prohibited uses of AI during the recruitment process, please review our candidate AI-use guidelines available on Pfizer Careers .
Public Affairs & Communication
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