Global Development Product Lead, Essential Brands (Vice President)

SUMMARY

The Essential Brands Global Development Product Lead  is responsible for the strategic oversight and operational leadership of Pfizer’s Essential Brands portfolio of maturing pharmaceutical assets. This role ensures high-quality execution of post-marketing activities, lifecycle management, and expansion initiatives, driving operational efficiencies and supporting sustained revenue.  

What You Will Achieve

In this role, you will:

• Serve as the single point of accountability for Essential Brands across Oncology, ensuring consistency in structure, resourcing, and ways of working. 

• Oversee all development commitments and studies through loss of exclusivity, including transition planning from development teams to Global Brands. 

• Drive global marketing applications, label updates, and publications to expand the reach of Pfizer medicines worldwide in alignment with US and global commercialization strategies. 

• Manage regulatory, access, and periodic reporting requirements; fulfill post-marketing commitments and ensure data disclosure to support brands. 

• Identify and implement resource efficiencies, regularly report on operational improvements, and support revenue through extension of LOE, delay of revenue erosion, and COGs reduction. 

• Maintain and grow partnerships with development partners, research collaborators, and investigator-sponsored trials. 

• Lead a cross-functional team and coordinate with dedicated functional team members (e.g., regulatory, safety, clinical operations, commercial, marketing, biostatistics, legal/IP). 

• Accountable for the creation of an integrated product strategy and delivery through milestones and decision points by leveraging cross functional teams, with the goal of leading to approvals and maximizing product value

• Regular updating and communication with Disease Area Head on key program metrics, milestones, and risks

• Accountable for working with the GPTs to deliver the R&D budget, at or below target, and managing opportunities for savings or re-distributions of funding across programs

• Partner with Oncology Commercial, BD & Commercial Development to valuate US/ex-US opportunities for investment and building Oncology leadership under the direction of the Disease Area Head

• Integrates regulatory and statistical input into clinical trial design

• Drives and implements short- and long-term project vision and strategy, while ensuring alignment across global functions in regards to strategy and direction.  Communicate clear strategy to program team and functions and ensures that is reflected in the operation

• Accountable with regulatory for health authority interactions​

• Drives talent acquisition among team members and within their sub-teams, including active selection and de-selection and performance management in conjunction with line managers of the core membership of the program team

• Accountable with safety for clinical evaluations and safety decisions​

• Primary governance interface for OLT/OSGT

• Accountable with clinical pharmacology, for optimal dose and schedule selection

• Accountable for external input from advisory boards and steering committees into clinical trial design

• Communicates with leadership and governance committees to address program needs, issues, resources, and recommendations. Ensures that presentations and other product communications are clear and effective.  Support development of internal and external presentations.

• Drives team objective setting, prioritization and ensure adherence to Disease Area and overarching Oncology plan and strategy

• Drives risk management, issue identification and resolution and contingency planning

• Create a positive team environment that instills trust, encourages challenging assumptions, and ensures clear transparent communications to align around the overall goal/vision for the product

Here Is What You Need (Minimum Requirements)

• MD with minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in the pharmaceutical, academic, and/or medical research environments

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