Sr. Director/Team Lead, OLL - Global Commercial Strategy

Global Commercial Strategy (GCS): Sr. Director, Team Lead, OLL

Why Patients Need You

Everything we do, every day, is driven by an unwavering commitment to the patients, healthcare providers, and customers who depend on us. In Global Commercial Strategy (GCS), we translate science of R&D into value for patients and Pfizer — from early development through launch, growth, and LOE lifecycle. GCS serves as the strategic engine and commercial voice across the asset lifecycle — shaping asset positioning and evidence generation, leading global launches, and driving sustained access and brand performance through market and payer insights, broad access, & commercial rigor. We take pride in shaping how innovative medicines reach the people who need them most, and ensuring they are accessible, understood, and valued across every market. Our success is anchored in the following Pfizer Blueprint values: Science, Technology, Transformation and Colleagues. Whether you are defining strategy, managing brands at different lifecycle, or building the capabilities that power our commercial engine, your work directly shapes patient outcomes and the long-term success of Pfizer's portfolio.

Role Summary:

The Sr. Director, Team Lead, OLL is a leadership role within the Global Commercial Strategy organization, reporting to the Portfolio Marketing & Operations Lead. This role is responsible for leading a team of - Global Opinion Leader Liaison (OLL) colleagues across therapeutic areas, such as Vaccines and Inflammation & Immunology (I&I), ensuring a coordinated, compliant, and high-impact approach to opinion leader and key stakeholder engagement across priority brands and portfolio workstreams.

The OLL team plays a critical role in creating a first-class external stakeholder engagement experience by developing and executing opinion leader strategies, gathering actionable insights, enabling congress and medical education engagement, and helping Medical, Clinical, Commercial, Public Affairs, and HEOR teams understand evolving treatment, prevention, and customer dynamics. This leader will set the operating model, quality standards, and engagement discipline needed to support portfolio priorities while strengthening cross-brand learning and execution across both therapeutic areas.

The Sr. Director will partner closely with brand leads, Global Commercial Leads, Medical Affairs, R&D, Regulatory, Legal, Compliance, Global Access Strategy & Pricing (GASP), Business Analytics & Insights, MEET, US and International Commercial teams, and other enabling functions to ensure opinion leader insights and engagement plans are strategically aligned to brand and portfolio priorities. This role requires strong people leadership, enterprise judgment, stakeholder influence, and the ability to build team capability while operating in a complex, highly matrixed, AI-enabled commercial environment.

Responsibilities:

Team Leadership and Talent Development:

·       Lead, develop, and manage a team of Global Opinion Leader Liaison colleagues across therapeutic areas, such as vaccines and I&I.

·       Set individual and team priorities, provide coaching and performance feedback, and create a culture of accountability, collaboration, agility, and continuous learning.

·       Build and maintain a high-performing OLL team with deep external engagement capabilities, disease area fluency, and the ability to flex across brand and portfolio priorities.

·       Develop colleagues by strengthening engagement craft, insight generation, executive communication, compliant ways of working, and cross-functional leadership capabilities.

·       Foster a team culture that elevates quality, strengthens enterprise alignment, and reinforces Pfizer Values in every internal and external interaction.

Opinion Leader Strategy and Stakeholder Engagement:

·       Lead development of an integrated OLL strategy across TAs that supports brand, launch, lifecycle, and portfolio priorities.

·       Ensure opinion leader and key stakeholder engagement plans are strategically aligned, insight-driven, coordinated across functions, and grounded in clear objectives.

·       Guide the team in building and maintaining prioritized opinion leader and key stakeholder landscapes, engagement plans, and compliant interaction models.

·       Oversee insight gathering from 1:1 engagements, small-group interactions, advisory boards, congresses, and other external forums to inform commercial strategy and execution.

·       Enhance the external stakeholder engagement experience by driving consistency, preparatio