Director, PX, GWE, Workplace Site Lead

The Workplace Site Lead provides leadership, partnership, management and operational expertise to ensure approximately 2.5M sq ft of Groton, CT facilities support the advancement of the R&D pipeline. The site has the greatest concentration of specialty labs in the R&D network consisting of small molecule clinical manufacturing, GxP and non-regulated laboratories, vivarium, technical space (central utility plant) and office workspace facilities. Nearly every breakthrough therapy in the pipeline passes through Groton facilities and processes. A critical element of the site performance is to ensure safe and compliant operations to meet and enable the aggressive timelines and evolving priorities of a first-in-class research organization.  Therefore, making possible the delivery of commitments while providing an enabling and engaging work environment where colleagues and contractors can do their best work.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Serve as the primary onsite GWE point of contract for site leadership, coordinating responses, solutions, and opportunity resolutions through effective partnership for the entirety of the GWE scope within the Regional Lead’s responsibility.
• Lead/oversee daily operations, provide technical and operational expertise for colleague teams to resolve technical challenges and set goals, while ensuring the performance (KPIs and SLAs) of outsourced supplier programs meets contractual obligations and the needs of the R&D organization.
• Submit an annual site OpEx budget (+$117M) to the Regional Lead for review and approval and manage to forecast targets.
• Oversee/partner with engineering and contracted engineering resources to ensure capital engineering projects that support PRD are delivered on time, on budget, and meet or exceed design criteria and where appropriate, meet quality compliance (FDA, GxP, AAALAC, etc.) requirements.
• Submit an annual capital budget (+$80M) to the Capital Projects PMO and the Regional Lead and coordinate a large number of complex technical projects to meet forecasted targets, while delivering against schedule, compliance, and quality commitments.
• Optimize energy consumption, utility costs and conservation with the goal of being a good corporate steward of resources, continued cost savings, and uptime reliability.
• Manage and oversee Pfizer and service provider resources to ensure laboratories, logistics, and site services are managed in a manner that creates an environment allowing researchers to meet their challenging objectives without interruptions, distractions, or quality concerns.
• Manage real estate and applicable property leases in a manner ensuring optimized utilization and lease obligations.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science or related discipline
• Minimum of ten years of experience:
• Prior People management experience required. Role will manage team up to 6 direct reports, total team construct of up to 16 colleagues.
• Managing key stakeholder interests while executing performance outcomes on a large multi-facility campus
• Providing or managing services via an outcome-based contract
• Working in a team environment providing critical customer service
• Overseeing/managing building maintenance, central utility plant operations and risk management in a pharmaceutical/research setting comprised of laboratory, manufacturing and vivarium environments
• Overseeing/managing the operational and customer interface of capital projects in a regulated pharmaceutical/research setting
• Overseeing Environmental Health & Safety regulations in a pharmaceutical/research setting comprised of laboratory, manufacturing and vivarium environments

Technical Skills

• Experience with the design and installation of regulated and non-regulated laboratories, central utility plants, manufacturing processes, vivarium, and office spaces
• Ability to present and discuss findings with senior and first level management, colleagues, consultants and non-company officials
• Ability to prepare technical reports, evaluations and cost estimates
• Possess broad analytical and critical thinking skills
• Possess a broad understanding of contract administration, business principles and business law
• Demonstrated computer skills; MS Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• MBA or Masters in associated discipline
• Ability to partner with R&D leadership ensuring collaboration and alignment with the R&D strategy to deliver on the pipeline priorities
• Knowledge of the design criteria for regulated and unregulated laboratories, process