Sr. Manager Training Compliance

The Senior Manager, Training Compliance provides leadership and oversight of training compliance for the Vaccines organization, ensuring colleagues, contractors, and external partners maintain compliant, accurate, and inspection ready training records. This role serves as the Vaccines training compliance subject matter expert, overseeing and designing role-based curricula, learning management (LMS/PLA) governance, on-the-job (OJT) and retraining frameworks, management of a train the trainer function, and training documentation standards, reporting to Director of Quality Records and Training Compliance.

The Senior Manager partners closely with QIDO QA, Quality, and business stakeholders to drive standardization, continuous improvement, and sustained inspection readiness.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead Vaccines training compliance strategy in alignment with Vaccines SOPs, enterprise quality systems, and GxP requirements (namely GCLP, GLP, GCP).

• Defines and drives the Vaccines Train‑the‑Trainer strategy, partnering with Quality and business stakeholders to ensure qualified trainers, standardized delivery, and sustained inspection readiness.

• Govern role-based curricula, job roles, training documentation, OJT, retraining, and training waivers across Vaccines.

• Serve as SME for Vaccines training compliance processes, including PLA administration, curricula management, and training record archival.

• Partner with Quality and business stakeholders to assess procedural changes, manage compliance impact, and implement scalable solutions.

• Drive continuous improvement and standardization of Vaccines training compliance processes and tools.

• Lead and develop Training Compliance staff within QRT; provide escalation support for complex compliance issues.

• Monitor training compliance risks and trends; lead corrective and preventive actions as needed.

• Large scale innovative projects, like adoption of electronic systems for OJT and similar manual functions.

• Communicate training compliance status, risks, and expectations to Vaccines leadership and stakeholders.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, quality, education, technology, or related discipline and 6+ years’ experience OR MS with 5+ years’ experience

• Extensive experience in training compliance or quality systems within a regulated pharma/biotech environment.

• Hands-on experience with LMS platforms (e.g., PLA), role-based curricula, and training governance.

• Experience supporting audits, inspections, and cross functional initiatives.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong GxP training and compliance expertise

• Proven people leadership and stakeholder influence

• Clear, effective written and verbal communication

• Analytical, risk based decision making

• Ability to manage complexity and drive standardization across Vaccines

  
Candidate demonstrates a breadth of diverse leadership experiences and capabilities including: the ability to influence and collaborate with peers, develop and coach others, oversee and guide the work of other colleagues to achieve meaningful outcomes and create business impact.
 

PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS

Office based

Work Location Assignment:  This is a hybrid role requiring you to live within commuting distance and work on-site an average of 2.5 days per week or more as needed.

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $124,400.00 to $207,400.00. In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 17.5% of the base salary and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program. We offer comprehensive and generous benefits and programs to help our colleagues lead healthy lives and to support each of life’s moments. Benefits offered include a 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions and an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution, paid vacation, holiday and personal days, paid caregiver/parental and medical leave, and health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage. Learn more at Pfizer Candidate Site – U.S. Benefits | (uscandidates.mypfizerbenefits.com). Pfizer compensation structures and benefit packages are aligned based on the location of hire. The United States salary range provided does not apply to Tampa, FL or any location outside of the United States.

Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.

Candidates must be authorized to be employed in the U.S. by any e