Sr. Manager, Strategy & Consulting

ROLE SUMMARY:

Pfizer's Strategy & Consulting (S&C) team works with Pfizer senior leadership to lead the development of holistic business strategies across the enterprise. We bring strategic connections and make a difference by combining robust consulting approaches with our intimate understanding of Pfizer’s business challenges. We collaborate closely with our internal business partners to develop shared goals and high impact strategies that enable Pfizer’s purpose-driven growth agenda and support our mission to deliver breakthroughs that change patients’ lives.

This role will support projects across one of two S&C verticals:

• US Commercial: Focuses on Pfizer’s Primary Care, Specialty Care and Oncology Business Units (BUs). These BUs are responsible for executing the U.S. Commercial strategy across their TAs/products and are accountable for the U.S. P&L for these businesses. Our main stakeholders include the Chief U.S. Commercial Officer, the U.S. BU Presidents and their leadership teams. Our projects help shape, develop, and enable execution of strategies to advance and grow these businesses in support of Pfizer’s overall growth ambitions. These business strategies include key US brand/market priorities, cover a broad range of in-line and late-stage pipeline assets, and span TA-level as well as above-TA topics.

• Corporate / R&D: Encompasses a wide range of corporate functions and high priority strategy projects for Research and Development. The scope of this vertical includes support for and requests from the CEO, the Pfizer Board of Directors, the ELT, enterprise-level initiatives related to a broad range of Corporate Functions (e.g., Corporate Affairs, Digital, Finance, People Experience), as well as strategic support for Pfizer’s Chief Scientific Officer and his Leadership Team. Our projects aim to shape, develop, and enable execution of strategies to advance and grow Pfizer’s overall business as well as enhance the productivity and efficiency of our end-to-end PRD engine.

In S&C, you will have frequent exposure to a variety of senior leadership (VPs and Presidents) across Pfizer’s different business units, helping to build your network for a long and successful career at Pfizer. You will be reporting to a Senior Director who is invested in accelerating your growth and development at Pfizer.  

We recognize the importance of all of Pfizer’s core values: courage, excellence, equity and joy. In living these values our customers and our colleagues are at the heart of all we do. We are committed to ensuring you are set up for success, including being able to maintain a desirable work life balance.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES:

As a Senior Manager in this team, you will have several main accountabilities: 

• Contribute to the development of each Business Unit’s strategic plan and corresponding strategies, ensuring a consistent structure to the plans created across Pfizer

• Lead significant portions and workstreams of projects related to key strategic issues, and 

• Provide insight into the impact of market signals/trends that could affect business performance or strategic direction

What this looks like on a daily basis:

• Interact with BU leaders and/or corporate functions to understand their business needs and develop strategies at a global, US, and/or regional level

• Contribute to the completion of annual strategies and plans that guide the execution of the strategies

• Lead workstreams on projects that provide insight and direction for key strategic levers such as market development, customer needs assessment, competitive advantage, market and/or product prioritization, and opportunities at the BU, asset, or functional level

• Direct small projects and cross-functional 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, and provide mentorship to junior resources

• Participate in external networking and thought partnership to broaden functional expertise and maintain awareness of industry trends

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum MBA/MS/MA with 5 years of relevant healthcare experience, or BS/BA with 6 years of relevant healthcare experience

  • Relevant healthcare experience includes experience working in/with commercial, corporate or R&D biopharma functions involving strategy development and/or strategic initiatives (e.g., marketing, commercial development, market access & pricing, business development, R&D strategy / portfol