Global Transport Operations Sr Mgr

Senior Manager, Global Transport Operations

This role provides end‑to‑end oversight and accountability for service, cost, quality, and sustainability across the Pfizer Global Transport network.

Key Responsibilities:

• Global Transport Ambassador: Serves as a Global Transportation ambassador to sites, translating global logistics network initiatives into clear context and direction to drive alignment and effective implementation. Maintains a comprehensive understanding of site strategies and key projects and their implications for the global transport network.

• Pilot in Command: Drives high‑impact global projects & initiatives on end-to-end level aligned with Global Transport Tier 3 and Global Logistics Tier 4 priorities, delivering measurable and sustainable value across the network.

• Tech Translator: Leads early adoption of next‑generation technologies, shaping solution design and change management strategy while ensuring disciplined execution and full operational implementation across the team. Translates day-to-day ops / plant requirements up to global digital / system needs and identify key gaps from a process and system point of view and bring into actionable plan.

• Global Transport Budget Lifecycle Management Owner: Leads regional budget construction and forecasting, orchestrating end‑to‑end transportation and packaging spend.

• Operational Translator: Translate product criticality, patient impact, and commercial value into differentiated and resilient transport solutions

• Global Transport Core Operations: Manages core transportation operations end‑to‑end, covering transport lifecycle governance, strategic vendor performance and relationship management, and packaging solutions inventory control

What You Will Achieve

Global Transport Core Operations:

• Accountable for all aspects of global transportation lifecycle management for shipments out of and their respective sites & scope. 

• Collaborates closely with Global Command Center to react and respond as needed to ensure ongoing supply to patients and 1st paying customers, mitigating and anticipating future risks.

• Collaborates closely with Transport Capabilities team to define sourcing strategies & make sourcing decisions on regional level

• Primary Global Transport Interface with Plants, Regional Supply Service Center & Global Customer Fulfilment and other Pfizer functions for respective regional scope of role.

• Manages external logistics providers to ensure service levels and capacity are appropriately matched to business and changing regulatory requirements and investigates opportunities for further value creation improvements through optimizations, consolidations for their respective scope.

• Leads packaging solution provider management to ensure optimal inventory positioning, availability, and cost efficiency across the global network.

• Accountable for regional strategic vendor management to unlock value, ensure strategic alignment with global vendor management, and deliver positive business outcomes

Global Transport Budget Lifecycle Management

• Leads regional budget construction and forecasting, orchestrating end‑to‑end transportation and packaging spend.

• Delivers a bottom-up and activity-based budget for each area under his/her responsibility.

• Ensures regular actual – forecast - budget controls and guarantees appropriate mitigation in alignment with the budget goals for area under his/her responsibility.

• Connect operational parameters (rate, mode of transport, fill rate, packaging type etc.)  to overall budget to define key focus & improvement areas.

External Provider Management

• Oversee external logistics providers to ensure service levels and capacity align with business and regulatory needs.

• Explore opportunities for value creation through optimization, consolidation, and dynamic routing.

• Coordinates operations and business reviews with logistics providers and internal stakeholders.

• Continuously scans the logistics market to identify innovation and new approaches for Global Transport operations.

Continuous Improvement

• Drive high‑impact global projects & initiatives on end-to-end level aligned with Global Transport Tier 3 and Global Logistics Tier 4 priorities, delivering measurable and sustainable value across the network.

• Seeks opportunities to drive overall end-to-end lead-time reduction in line with the overall Pfizer Global Supply and Pfizer blueprint

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