Associate Research Manager, UK Health & Value

UK Health & Value (H&V) Associate Research Manager Outcomes Innovation & Evidence (OIE) Team Pfizer UK Pfizer is one of the world's premier innovative biopharmaceutical companies, discovering, developing and providing over 170 different medicines, vaccines and consumer healthcare products to help improve the lives of millions of people in the UK and around the world every year. At Pfizer UK, we believe by working together with the Government and the NHS, we can find new ways to jointly deliver a brighter future for patients, scientists, and society. Why Patients Need You Our focus is on patients and understanding the critical role our medicines play to produce better health outcomes. Your expertise and innovative approach will enhance the evidence generation highlighting the value of our medicines and the benefit for patients and their families. As a cross-functional team of experts, we use data as the vehicle for driving health-technology, reimbursement, and access solutions. What You Will Achieve You will be part of Pfizer’s dynamic Market Access [UK Health & Value] team and will have the important role of leading operational support for evidence generation, research, and external engagement for market access of pre-market medicines. You will support scientists on the team as they assess the gaps in evidence required to demonstrate the economic value of our medicines and support the operationalization of data strategies to bridge these gaps by initiating and managing research studies with the team. You will also be focused on how to develop greater agility within the UK H&V team that is compliant and can move at pace to meet submission timelines for HTA and reimbursement. The impact of your support will be to provide a comprehensive narrative of patient benefit and support product portfolio decisions, product reimbursement strategies, and health technology assessment (HTA)/reimbursement submissions. You will work with outcomes research, real-world evidence, health economic, market access, medical, and compliance teams to ensure comprehensive data strategy alignment through a medicine’s life cycle and optimize research processes for H&V and across Pfizer. These strategies will also include external engagement and collaboration to develop and deliver market access solutions. As an Associate Research Manager, your knowledge of research study management and conduct, project and vendor management, external engagement and collaborations, as well as skills in cross-functional collaboration will enable you to support complex projects across the division. While managing complex projects, you will be able to anticipate and troubleshoot roadblocks and influence teams to achieve targets for the division while working at pace. It is your hard work and focus that will make Pfizer ready to achieve new milestones and help patients across the globe. We are looking for a self-driven, highly motivated individual to transform patient access via evidence generation (including real-world evidence and outcomes research). How You Will Achieve It

• Support complex projects across business units (therapy areas) and manage plans to achieve objectives.
• Support the operationalization of comprehensive evidence generation data strategies in partnership with outcomes research, real-world evidence, HTA, and medical colleagues
• Extensive experience in research study and project management, including but not limited to study start-up, study material approval, IRB submission, vendor management
• Initiate internal Pfizer compliance, procurement, and legal processes to support study initiation and launch, including submission of study materials for medical non-promotional certification via GCMA
• Identify and develop research plans for studies, as well as support study material development
• Support vendor selection and contracting for studies
• Support external engagement and research collaboration set-up
• Lead internal workgroups and/or projects focused on reducing red tape and increasing simplicity to drive agility in the UK research environment that is compliant, ethical, and at pace for HTA/reimbursement submissions
• Contribute to a culture of excellence and equity by open collaboration and active problem solving with diverse teams internally and externally
• Leverage communication skills for conveying complex scientific data to technical and non-technical audiences

Qualifications

• Degree in public health, epidemiology, statistics, life sciences, outcomes research with experience OR additional experience in clinical operations, research management, project management, or compliance; internal Pfizer experience a plus
• Relevant pharmaceutical industry experience
• Demonstrated experience in research and project management (which may include clinical trials, phase IV or post-market studies, epidemiologic or outcomes research)
• General understanding of global drug development and openness to learn about the UK HTA and reimbursement bodies, including HTA and JCVI
• Demonstrated leadership in identifying and addressing gaps in research processes, recommending optimization of processes, collaboration to dynamically solve challenges to move research forward at pace
• Demonstrated skill in change agility to address organizational/market access needs and dynamically adapt outcomes research strategies
• Demonstrated strength in teamwork, cross-functional collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, and developing partnerships with KOLs
• Demonstrated skill in communicating with technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong personal integrity and commitment to ethics and working in compliance with Pfizer policies and UK regulations

Purpose Breakthroughs that change patients' lives... At Pfizer we are a patient centric company, guided by our four values: courage, joy, equity and excellence. Our breakthrough culture lends itself to our dedication to transforming millions of lives. Digital Transformation Strategy One bold way we are achieving our purpose is through our company wide digital transformation strategy. We are leading the way in adopting new data, modelling and automated solutions to further digitize and accelerate drug discovery and development with the aim of enhancing health outcomes and the patient experience. Flexibility We aim to create a trusting, flexible workplace culture which encourages employees to achieve work life harmony, attracts talent and enables everyone to be their best working self. Let’s start the conversation! Equal Employment Opportunity We believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce is crucial to building a successful business. As an employer, Pfizer is committed to celebrating this, in all its forms – allowing for us to be as diverse as the patients and communities we serve. Together, we continue to build a culture that encourages, supports and empowers our employees. DisAbility Confident We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and we encourage you to put your best self forward with the knowledge and trust that we will make any reasonable adjustments necessary to support your application and future career. Our mission is unleashing the power of our people, especially those with unique superpowers. Your journey with Pfizer starts here! Market Access #LI-PFE