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Why Pfizer?
At Pfizer, you’ll find an inclusive environment, challenging projects and the opportunity to own your career. Seize the ability to think differently and collaborate with innovative minds to influence some of the most critical issues facing healthcare worldwide. Foster your career and join a team that is striving for breakthroughs that change patients’ lives.
What You Will Achieve
Reporting to a Senior Director, Strategy & Consulting in a project area “vertical,” this role is responsible for working with the respective business units to shape, develop, and enable execution of strategies that will advance the business. While this position reports into the Strategy & Consulting team organizationally, this person will stay connected to key business challenges and opportunities as articulated by the Portfolio Management Team and ensure that there is alignment with strategic priorities. The scope of the role will focus on three key accountabilities:
1) contribute to the development of each Business Unit’s strategic plan and corresponding strategies, ensuring a consistent structure to the plans created across Pfizer,
2) lead portions of projects related to key strategic issues, and
3) provide insight into the impact of market signals that could affect business performance or strategic direction.
Our project area “verticals” are below.
Primary Care: Encompasses Vaccines including COMIRNATY, Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine, Internal Medicine, and anti-virals including PAXLOVID, Pfizer’s Covid treatment
Specialty Care and Oncology: Encompasses Inflammation & Immunology, Rare Disease, Hospital and Oncology franchises, including Breast, Lung, Renal, Hematology, etc.
International Development Markets (IDM) and Emerging Markets (EM): The IDM business spans all our TAs and products in key developed markets outside the US, including (but not limited to) the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Japan, Canada, Australia, etc. The EM business spans all our TAs and products in key emerging markets across the globe, including (but not limited to) Turkey, India, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, as well as additional markets in Africa, Middle East, Asia, Latin America, etc.
Corporate and R&D: Encompasses a wide range of Corporate Functions and Research and Development, both Worldwide Research, Development & Medical as well as Global Product Development
While reporting in to one specific vertical, this role will also have the opportunity to gain broader exposure and experience across other verticals in Strategy & Consulting based on business and professional development needs.
How You Will Achieve It
- Contribute to the development of business strategies at a global level, and where appropriate, a local level, by managing workstreams across a portfolio of projects that provide insight and direction on key strategic levers, such as market development, customer needs assessment, competitive advantage, market and/or product prioritization.
- Contribute to the completion of annual strategic plans, as well as aligned strategic action plans.
- Develop and maintain an understanding of market dynamics in order to identify market trends and appropriately assess opportunities and guide strategic direction. Provide perspective on the potential impact of external market signals that could impact future business performance.
- Understand the priorities of the triads and/or corporate functional leads to understand business needs and represent the current status of opportunity evaluations.
- Actively participate in the assigned S&C team learning opportunities through hands on project experiences, role-specific professional development trainings, and sharing sessions, supporting Pfizer strategy through the perspective and experience of the organizations you support.
- Under the direction of an S&C Sr. Manager, Director, or Senior Director, manage project workstreams, comprised of teams of colleagues with varying levels of experience, coaching and developing them to build capability and performance.
- Create an engaging and productive work environment where team members are encouraged to collaborate and excel.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- BA/BS degree
- Minimum of 3 years relevant experience with advanced degree OR minimum 4 years relevant experience including experience working in or with commercial functions involving strategy development and/or strategic initiatives (e.g., marketing, commercial development, market access & pricing, etc.)
- Basic understanding of trends and market dynamics in US and Global healthcare and biopharmaceuticals, basic understanding of competitor strategies, and basic understanding of the drug development process.
- Demonstrated strong strategic thinking skills, as evidenced by the ability to tee up the right questions, identify alternative scenarios, articulate resulting implications, and develop recommendations for decision-making or action.
- Ability to work with complex information and distill into a framework that helps facilitate decision making, while maintaining attention to detail and accuracy.
- Ability to understand and translate market and competitive dynamics into strategic implications for the BUs.
- Demonstrated project leadership potential, managing workstreams and small teams of cross-functional colleagues with varying backgrounds and skillsets.
- Demonstrated ability to influence key stakeholders without direct authority (Department leaders and functional counterparts). Must be able to influence a wide range of stakeholders, including commercial and research & development leaders.
- Basic understanding of finance and P&L implications of any strategy
- Ability to work effectively in a matrix organization and lead with indirect authority, while prioritizing and managing time effectively.
- Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills, sufficient to address Global BU Leadership and external audiences.
- Demonstrated high learning agility, “team player” mentality, and positive attitude and poise under pressure.
- Strong command of English language, spoken and written.
Nice-to-Have
- Life sciences degree
- Advanced degree
- Healthcare experience
- 2+ years of healthcare/biopharma consulting experience
NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS
- Some ability and willingness to travel is required.
OTHER INFORMATION
- Work Location Assignment: Flexible. Flexible colleagues are assigned a Pfizer site within a commutable distance where they work about 2-3 days weekly to connect and innovate with their team face-to-face. However, they also benefit from being able to work offsite regularly when it makes business sense to do so.
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 provider’s 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.
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