Sr. Dir, Molecules and Assays Solutions

Why Patients Need You

Technology impacts everything we do. Pfizer’s digital and ‘data first’ strategy focuses on implementing impactful and innovative technology solutions across all functions from research to manufacturing. Whether you are digitizing drug discovery and development, identifying solutions, or making our work easier and faster, you will be making a difference to countless lives.

Pfizer’s purpose, breakthroughs that change patients’ lives, is rooted in being a science driven and patient focused company. Digital, data, and technology are central to driving innovation at Pfizer.

The Senior Director, Molecules and Assays Solutions, as part of the R&D Creation Center’s Discovery, Pre-Clinical, and Translational Solutions Team, will lead strategic direction, product management, and AI-driven innovation for Pfizer’s Molecules and Assays platforms and systems. You will oversee a global team responsible for delivering scalable, sustainable, and science-centric solutions that power research execution across Pfizer and any in-scope external partners. As a senior leader, you will drive strategic planning for your organization’s platforms and systems, integrating advanced technologies including AI, data pipelines, and predictive analytics to enhance efficiency and decision-making.
 

The ideal candidate has experience at the intersection of research and digital technologies including enterprise-level systems platforms, with passion to make a difference at scale, a commitment to growing others, and the curiosity and courage to experiment and innovate in the ever changing digital and healthcare landscape.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

Molecules and Assays Solutions Enablement

In collaboration with Digital & Technology peers and Pfizer R&D business stakeholder team members, the Senior Director, Molecules and Assays Solutions, will deliver technical services including ecosystem architecture, quality, analytics, and data management to design, build, and deliver innovative, cost effective, and sustainable solutions to enable the design and optimization of therapeutic agents across modalities.  The work you and your team will do will enable:

• Medicine Design (MD), Biomedicine Design (BMD), Pharmacokinetics, Dynamics, and Metabolism (PDM) and related functions in Research Units
• Assay development, registration, and hit identification
• Functional genomics (in partnership with the Targets and Mechanisms team)
• Large and Small Molecule design, synthesis, registration, and material management
• Structural Biology

Vision and Strategy

• Defines and owns the vision and strategy for digital Molecules and Assays Solutions, capabilities, with an additional focus on AI innovation and the development of product capability roadmaps to support Pfizer's research strategy with cutting-edge digital technologies.
• Defines and owns the Ecosystem Architecture architecting a modular, interoperable digital ecosystem that integrates scientific data products, metadata frameworks, and platform interoperability across systems and enables AI technologies across the value chain.
• Anticipates technology trends supporting business capabilities in area of remit with an additional focus on AI to prioritize investments that provide a competitive advantage and align with new technology and business practices within the research domain.
• Collaborates across Digital & Technology and business areas to select, pilot, and scale emerging innovations and technologies that drive Pfizer's research strategy forward.
• Continuously identify external solutions and have an awareness of best practices from competitors.  
• Participation / Leading of pre-competitive consortia as applicable.

Strategic Leadership

• Establishes and matures a strategic product and platform operating model to drive scalable innovation.
• Operationalizes emerging technologies through robust governance frameworks to ensure alignment with business objectives, regulatory, and compliance requirements (as required).
• As required, designs and leads a strategic vendor framework to manage high-impact partnerships with critical vendors, ensuring measurable quality delivery and support.
• Launches and scales AI program(s) to embed AI into core workflows and to build process mining capabilities to uncover operational inefficiencies and inform continuous improvement strategies.

Program Delivery Leadership

• Accountable for global Digital & Technology program delivery, overseeing technology implementation across all supporting areas, with responsibility for business case, supporting key performance metrics and financial management for highly complex continuous delivery activities.
• Re