Reporting to the Vice President, PIH Strategy, this role is responsible for working with the Vaccines Group to shape, develop, and enable execution of strategies that will advance and grow the business. The scope of the role will include all areas under the purview of the Vaccines Group, including Commercial Development and inline marketing. While this position reports into the Strategy team organizationally, this person will also participate on the Vaccines leadership team in order to stay connected to key business challenges and opportunities, and ensure that there is alignment with strategic priorities, or make adjustments to priorities when necessary.
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Organizational Relationships
• Collaborates with the Vaccines Leadership Team
• Partner with other PIH/PEH Strategy Teams
• Communicate with PIH Strategy/New Business Teams
• Work in conjunction with BAI, Finance, and other internal partners on a regular basis
• Manage external vendors as needed
Responsibilities
• Partner with Vaccines business leaders to develop business strategies at a Group, global commercial and regional level (North America and International Developed Markets), and identify key strategic imperatives and capabilities required to achieve those imperatives
• Facilitate the completion of an annual strategic plan, as well as a strategy action plan that manages the execution of the strategies
• Lead or actively participate in projects that provide insight and direction for key strategic levers such as market development, customer needs assessment, competitive advantage, market and/or product prioritization
• Provide perspective on the potential impact of external market signals that could impact future business performance
• Develop a deep expertise in Vaccines in order to identify market trends and appropriately assess opportunities and guide strategic direction
• Engage with Vaccines LT to understand business needs and represent current status of opportunity evaluations
• Develop external relationships that provide perspective of the evolving Vaccines eco-system outside of Pfizer
• Collaborate with other Group strategy leads to identify cross BU opportunities for alignment or synergies across strategic imperatives
• Active participation in the PIH Strategy team, supporting PIH strategy through the perspective and experience of the Vaccines Group
Qualifications
• 15+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. Understands trends in healthcare and pharmaceuticals, aware of competitor strategies, knowledge of healthcare dynamics in the US and other major global markets, and understanding of the drug development and business development process
• Ability to influence key stakeholders at all levels of the organization (ELT, Category Presidents, department leaders, and functional counterparts). Must be able to influence executive commercial and research leaders
• Demonstration of strong strategic thinking skills, as evidenced by the ability to identify alternative scenarios, resulting implications, and recommendation for direction or action
• Ability to understand and translate market and competitive dynamics into strategic implications for Pfizer’s Vaccines business
• Ability to work with complex information and distill into a framework that helps facilitate decision making
• Ability to work effectively in a matrix organization and lead with indirect authority
• Strong presentation skills sufficient to address Global BU Leadership, ELT, and external audiences
• Prior experience in consulting is preferred
• BA/BS – life sciences degree helpful. MBA preferred
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