Program Manager, Vaccine Development

Why Patients Need You 

Pfizer Worldwide Medical and Safety colleagues play a key role in connecting evidenced based, medical decision support with colleagues and stakeholders to enable better health and treatment outcomes. Whether you are creating framework necessary to ensure our evidence is scientifically sound, providing unbiased, medically necessary expertise or investigating how to close gaps in data, our mission is simple. Empower healthcare decisions regarding the safe and appropriate use of medicines for patients. 

ROLE SUMMARY

• Supports the Program Director in providing overall project management for Vaccine Research and Development (VRD) program teams in the development of new vaccines from Research through product registration to ensure alignment of strategic and operational objectives.
• A Program Manager possesses a comprehensive knowledge of vaccine/drug development, resource management concepts, associated business processes, and project planning software and applies skills and general vaccine/drug development knowledge to contribute to the achievement of team or department goals.
• A Program Manager typically works within a cross-functional team environment but may lead/co-lead moderately complex sub-team initiatives.
• A Program Manager plays a key supportive role in scenario planning, supports several clinical or regulatory workstreams/ timelines within a program.
• May lead operational subteams to ensure that the operational deliverables of the program are achieved on or ahead of schedule and within cost standards such that they meet the desired product profile (i.e. quality standard, value), business deliverables and/or key decision required.
• A Program Manager is expected to use a variety of communication methods and reporting/analytical tools to communicate critical project information to Portfolio Operations, asset, development/project and protocol teams, partner lines and others to support information updates to enable team, line and portfolio decision making.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

Program Strategy:

• Collaborates with Program Leader(s) and Program Director to develop program plan that encompasses the overall strategy for the development of the vaccine in all indications ensuring alignment among the overall strategic, operational and line plans

Program planning:

• Applies technical, team and line knowledge along with comprehensive scheduling knowledge to contribute to the achievement of work team deliverables.
  • Translates team’s strategic objectives into operational plans; provides insight into operational feasibility of proposed strategies
  • Drives cross-functional and cross-geographic alignment with strategic plans and goals
  • Identifies and flags internal or external risks/impacts to strategies and plans; leads subteams in characterizing the impacts and revises plans, as appropriate 
  • Monitors progress of project activities towards next project milestone, anticipates and highlights potential variances, supports line/team in critical path analyses and understanding the impact, and partners with the Program Director and the program team to identify/recommend solutions to schedule risk
• Ensures development plans for all indications in a program are in place and kept current
  • Ensures operational plans align with and support strategic plans
  • Ensures that cost, time and quality parameters are clearly outlined in the plans
  • Ensures plans/timelines are up to date in Pfizer systems (Planisware, Snapshot, Glue)
• Drives creation of development plans, ensuring discrete deliverables are well characterized with associated timing, resources, quality parameters, interdependencies across lines, and risk and mitigation plans in collaboration with Program Director
  • Ensures plans are realistic in terms of time and resources required
  • Supports the process for evaluation, optimization and planning of alternative operational options
  • Performs scenario planning of project timelines to ensure efficient delivery of project milestones.
  • Ensures cross-functional team commitment to the plans
  • Supports negotiations in the allocation of line resources to support the endorsed development plan.
• Partners with Program Director to develop the VRD budget for the vaccine development plans, in partnership with the program team and VRD Operations

Program Execution and Delivery:

• Supports delivery of development plans in alignment with the program team strategies
• Partners with key team members (Clinical, Vaccine Research, BioTx Pharmaceutical Sciences, Regulatory, DSRD, Commercial Development, Clinical Operations, etc.) to manage the program to achieve key milestones within time, cost and quality paramet