Senior Associate- Strategy & Consulting

About the position

Pfizer’s Strategy & Consulting (S&C) team works with Pfizer senior leadership to lead the development of holistic business strategies across Corporate, Commercial and Research & Development (R&D).

As a team that works 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 work on projects across all four verticals within S&C: US Commercial, Global Commercial Platforms, International, and Corporate and R&D.

You will have frequent exposure to a variety of senior leadership (VPs, SVPs, and Presidents) across Pfizer’s business units, helping to build your network for a long and successful career at Pfizer. You will be reporting to a Director Team Lead or 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 sustainable work life balance.

Responsibilities

As a Sr. Associate in this team, your main accountabilities will be:

• Strategic Initiative Support: Support key strategic projects, ensuring they are aligned with the company’s long-term goals and delivered on time
• Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis: Conduct in-depth research to identify market trends, diagnose internal processes, and evaluate potential risks, providing actionable insights to inform enterprise decisions
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Engage with senior executives and cross-functional teams to develop and communicate strategic recommendations and drive alignment
• Teaming and Mentoring: Maintain a collaborative spirit, build personal awareness and model a continuous growth mindset

• Interact with workstream leads to understand their business needs and begin to proactively support them
• Under the direction of a project lead, own deliverables for workstreams 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.
• Develop and maintain an understanding of market dynamics to identify market trends and appropriately assess opportunities and guide strategic direction.
• Begin to formulate insights from external and internal sources to uncover patterns and extract novel insights to provide data-driven recommendations and effectively communicate complex information to project lead
• Bring a team-first attitude to projects, creating an engaging and productive work environment where team members are encouraged to collaborate and excel
• Participate in internal/external networking and thought partnership to broaden functional expertise and maintain awareness of industry trends

Requirements:

Successful candidates for this role typically bring the following skills and experiences:

• Minimum BS/BA with 3 years of relevant 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 / portfolio management, etc.)
• Recommends problem solving approaches to support or refute hypotheses based on multiple identified paths. Shares insights that are relevant and going beyond standard templates
• Demonstrated experience working on team-based projects, builds relationships and incorporates business partner working styles
• Strong qualitative and quantitative analytical skills, including proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint 
• Basic understanding of trends and market dynamics in US and Global healthcare and biopharmaceuticals, and understanding of the drug development and commercialization process
• Presents effectively to team members and less-tenured business partners in a variety of one-on-one and small group settings
• Demonstrated high learning agility, “team player” mentality, pursues goals with clear focus while hiding inclusive interactions with collea