• The Senior Director/Director for U.S. Public Affairs will lead the development and management of strategic public affairs initiatives and recommendations for Pfizer Consumer Healthcare executive management on how PCH should address public policy challenges in the legislative and regulatory environment that impact the ability of PCH to research and develop new treatments and claims, market and sell medicines and the accessibility of products to consumers in the United States, representing more than $1.5 Billion (50%) of PCH's total sales. The Senior Director/Director will have responsibility for developing strategic and tactical implementation plans to best advance PCH public affairs initiatives that help meet PCH's global and U.S. business objectives. The Senior Director/Director will serve on the PCH U.S. Leadership team and liaise Public Affairs functional Teams (i.e. Field-based government affairs, Federal government affairs, state-based and national advocacy, etc.). The Senior Director/Director will develop and help execute government relations strategies, help to foster and build relationships with government officials at the state and federal level, develop advocacy initiatives and build relationships with third parties and key opinion leaders, manage trade association relations and participate on committees. Finally, the Senior Director/Director will manage educating management, employees and others on key PCH policy issues and priorities.

Develop and lead a strategic, pro-active public affairs agenda to shape key external U.S. issues and improve the environment in a positive way that support PCH's Global and U.S. R&D, commercial and sales objectives:

Develop and lead strategic and tactical implementation plans to execute Public Affairs initiatives by working with relevant internal departments and external stakeholder groups, including patient/disease advocacy organizations, think tanks, government policymakers, policy opinion leaders, medical societies, media etc.

Shape over the counter (OTC) and dietary supplement public affairs agenda and activities of key industry trade associations (Consumer Healthcare Products Assoc. (CHPA), Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) and others) to reflect PCH issues, priorities and positions

Lead identification and tracking of key U.S. OTC and dietary supplement policy and industry issues that impact on PCH interests and report to VP, Public Affairs and executive management teams and convene and chair interdisciplinary task forces and working groups to develop policy positions

Help build the PCH Public Affairs function and strengthen coordination of in-country Public Affairs PDB support

Travel to Washington, DC and the 50 states will be required.
Qualifications

• Bachelor degree required. A master's in public health, public policy, political science, and/or a Law degree or other advanced degree is preferred. Must have a minimum of 10 years experience in public policy or legal analysis with health care background, experience in state and federal legislative or executive branches of government is preferred.

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