Network Manufacturing Excellence Lead

Use Your Power for Purpose
At Pfizer, our mission is to cultivate a best-in-class culture of continuous improvement and project management that empowers colleagues and streamlines effective processes. Whether you are managing projects or collaborating with others, your role in this team will contribute to making our work more efficient and faster, enabling us to deliver breakthroughs that transform patients' lives. Your involvement is crucial in simplifying processes and fostering an environment where innovation thrives, helping us achieve our goal of improving patient outcomes. Your leadership and innovative ideas will drive the growth of the Operational Excellence team, ensuring that our improvement programs yield results and strengthen our overall business strategies.

What You Will Achieve

• Manufacturing Excellence: Develop, align and accelerate implementation of Manufacturing Excellence initiatives across the new Global Hospital & Biosimilars (GH&B) US OpU to drive transformation and improve year over year performance across key Balanced Scorecard and transformational areas including but not limited to quality, supply, cost, cycle time and Right First Time performance.

• Strategy Development and Horizontal Integration:  Drive integration and development of the operational strategy across the US organization to support organizational financial & growth aspirations. Drive the strategic planning process with the OpU LT to create a multi-year blueprint for the US OpU. Drive execution of this plan by working through a horizontal integration process with functional partners, VP of Ops and site leaders.

• Program & Project Management: Drive Performance of the organization by leading and program managing key cross site initiatives. 

The role’s primary responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Own and execute the T4 OpU Integrated Manufacturing Excellence (IMEx) Leadership Ecosystem

• Develop and implement a manufacturing excellence strategy for the OpU network, prioritize to drive achievement of PGS & GH&B Goals.

• Facilitate network replication of best practices, and advance recognition.

• Lead key cross site initiatives (eg. CIP management of current year and pipeline, Digital infrastructure, Tech Transfer, T5/4 CI Initiatives, etc)

• Thought partner to GH&B Operational Excellence & US VP of Operations Leads. 

• Design, develop and execute OpU communication plans, as needed

• Improve manufacturing performance through appropriate integration and application of Operational Excellence tools and methodologies (lean, six sigma, etc.)

• Build Operational Excellence expertise and capability at the sites to resolve critical business needs

• Support deployment and maturity of our Integrated Manufacturing Excellence (IMEx) ecosystems that is prioritized and phased to enable achievement of key operational outcomes.

• To be successful you will demonstrate the following:

• Leverages constructive relationships across the network to deliver outcomes

• Demonstrate successful negotiation and influencing skills in a matrix environment

• Aggregation of inputs from multiple stakeholders

• Ensure all work & solutions proposed / developed are aligned with the overall PGS & GH&B strategy. This includes assuring adherence to all PGS, Compliance, Regulatory, Finance & Digital strategies & requirements.

• Translate Subject Matter Expert (SME) experiences in Global Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, Compliance, Regulatory, Engineering, and/or Finance to advance deliverables.

• Use a variety of communication tools and techniques to present complex ideas to senior leaders, anticipate the potential objections and address stakeholder concerns to ensure alignment through effective storytelling.

• Demonstrate successful analytical and problem-solving skills that drive implementation of operational process enhancements and ensure measurement of progress

• Demonstrate ability to prioritize in fast paced ever changing environment

Here Is What You Need (Minimum Requirements)

• Applicant must have a bachelor's degree with at least 8 years of experience; OR a master's degree with at least 7 years of experience; OR a PhD with 5+ years of experience

• Experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing, including direct site experience.

• Deep understanding & expertise in some or all the following areas; Global Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and/or Quality.

• Proven ability to lead organizational change at a network level<