Senior Director, Seasonal Vaccines

ROLE SUMMARY:

You will help set scientific strategy for a seasonal viral vaccine program based on extensive industry and basic scientific experience in virology, synthetic biology, immunology, and vaccinology.  You will provide scientific leadership to a diverse research team, communicate with external stakeholders and collaborators to advance our programs, and  demonstrate deep, institutional working knowledge of seasonal vaccine updates and pandemic response systems.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support and enhance the current infrastructure and processes required to enable robust and rapid development and licensure of variant-adapted COVID-19 vaccines.

• Represent Research on the cross-functional Vaccine Product Team, operating at the interface between research and development and coordinating with non-research functions to meet program goals, including life cycle management.

• Establish relationships with and serve as a primary scientific liaison with external alliance partners, including collaborating companies, government agencies and non-governmental organizations

• Actively manage project risks, devising and implementing appropriate mitigation activities with multidisciplinary teams. Lead timely and effective communication of project risks and impact to senior leaders.

• Ensures that intellectual property is appropriately obtained and safeguarded.

• Take a key role in communication about vaccine programs in internal Pfizer documents and external patent applications, regulatory submissions, scientific papers, and conferences.

• Leads a motivated, committed and engaged research team to provide preclinical data to support annual strain change activities as well as exploration of next-generation vaccine technologies, leading direct reports and non-reports, reviewing experimental designs and data.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• PhD in Virology or a related field

• 10+ years industry or biotech experience in pre-clinical research and in vaccine technical development, with basic scientific expertise in SARS-CoV-2 research, immunology, serology, RNA vaccine technologies, and synthetic virology.  Experience in research agencies such as NIH or CDC will also be considered.

• Practical knowledge of global SAR-CoV-2 surveillance, recommendation, and regulatory systems

• Experience providing scientific leadership for projects in the pharmaceutical industry, and proven track record of project advancement and delivery in vaccines

• Global scientific reputation as evidenced by publication record and interaction with NIH or other established government research agencies.

• Understanding the scientific and non-scientific aspects of vaccines, and viral vaccine scientific, clinical and competitive landscape

• Demonstrated innovation and experience to applying knowledge, techniques and skills to identify and validate best new technologies.

• Strong communication skills including public speaking experience and scientific writing

• Experience collaborating cross functionally

• Scientific analysis experience

Candidate demonstrates a breadth of diverse leadership experiences and capabilities including: the ability to influence and collaborate with peers, develop and coach others, oversee and guide the work of other colleagues to achieve meaningful outcomes and create business impact.
 

NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS

• Must be able to work over weekends or at night to respond to urgent business matters

• Must be able to travel to vaccine-related meetings and conferences

Relocation Support Available

Work Location Assignment: This is a hybrid role requiring you to live within commuting distance and work on-site an average of 2.5 days per week.
 

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $214,900.00 to $341,100.00. In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 22.5% of the base salary and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program. We offer comprehensive and generous benefits and programs to help our colleagues lead healthy lives and to support each of life’s moments. Benefits offered include a 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions and an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution, paid vacation, holiday and personal days, paid caregiver/parental and medical leave, and health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage. Learn more at Pfizer Candidate Site – U.S. Benefits | (us