Team Lead, GCS Portfolio Marketing Group

Why Patients Need You

Everything we do, every day, is driven by an unwavering commitment to the patients, healthcare providers, and customers who depend on us. In Global Commercial Strategy (GCS), we translate science of R&D into value for patients and Pfizer — from early development through launch, growth, and LOE lifecycle. GCS serves as the strategic engine and commercial voice across the asset lifecycle — shaping asset positioning and evidence generation, leading global launches, and driving sustained access and brand performance through market and payer insights, broad access, & commercial rigor. We take pride in shaping how innovative medicines reach the people who need them most, and ensuring they are accessible, understood, and valued across every market. Our success is anchored in the following Pfizer Blueprint values: Science, Technology, Transformation and Colleagues. Whether you are defining strategy, managing brands at different lifecycle, or building the capabilities that power our commercial engine, your work directly shapes patient outcomes and the long-term success of Pfizer's portfolio.

Role Summary:

The Senior Director, Team Lead, GCS Portfolio Marketing Group is a newly created leadership role within the Global Commercial Strategy (GCS) organization, reporting to the Sr. Director, Portfolio Marketing & Operations Lead. This role is responsible for building and leading the centralized execution team that serves as the shared delivery engine across GCS brands. In a transformed, AI-enabled GCS operating environment, this leader will manage a team of ~6-8 colleagues to support brand execution across Core (brands reaching major LCM milestones) and Opportunistic (revenue & growth brands) brand categories.

This person will own day-to-day resource prioritization and capacity management, serve as the primary operational interface between the central resources and brand leads, and drive continuous improvement in how GCS delivers quality output with efficiency and speed. This role is central to GCS's transformation goal: a leaner, AI-enabled GCS delivering strategic impact at scale.

Responsibilities:

Team Leadership:

• Lead, develop, and manage a team of ~6-8 centrally resourced portfolio marketing colleagues
• Build and maintain a high-performing team with deep cross-brand commercial capabilities, able to flex across disease areas and brand categories
• Set individual and team priorities, provide coaching and performance feedback, and create a culture of accountability, agility, and continuous learning
• Foster a growth mindset and openness to AI-enabled ways of working, supporting colleagues through the transition from dedicated to centralized execution models

Resource Prioritization & Capacity Management:

• Serve as the central orchestrator of centralized resource allocation, matching team capacity to brand needs based on brand categories, milestone urgency, and strategic priority
• Maintain a real-time view of team workload and capacity across brands; proactively identify and resolve conflicts or gaps in resource coverage
• Partner with brand leads (across Evolve, Grow, and Maintain categories) to forecast demand, set expectations, and ensure smooth on/off-boarding of centralized support
• Establish and maintain clear operating norms, intake processes, and prioritization criteria for portfolio requests

Portfolio Marketing Oversight:

• Oversee delivery of the full scope of centralized portfolio marketing services, including: content production, market research & ATU synthesis, congress & MedEd planning, preparation, and logistics, RWE compendia, training delivery, competitive intelligence, etc.
• Ensure consistent quality of output across all centralized engagements, with clear accountability and delivery timelines
• Drive standardization of processes and tools across the GCS Portfolio Marketing team to enable efficiency and scalability
• Champion the adoption of AI-enabled tools and workflows to augment team output and reduce manual effort

Brand & Stakeholder Coordination:

• Serve as the primary interface between the pooled resources team and GCS brand leads, ensuring pool support is strategically aligned to each brand's lifecycle stage and commercial priorities
• Coordinate with US and International (ICO/EMCO) counterparts to align on shared needs and avoid duplication of effort across markets
• Partner with the Sr. Director, Portfolio Marketing & Operations Lead, and GCS LT on resource planning, capacity modeling, andstaffing evolution as the GCS transformation progresses
• Represent the GCS Portfolio Marketing team in senior stakeh