This role involves working in close collaboration with Asset Teams (e.g., clinical development, commercial development, operations, finance) and senior leaders to identify strategic issues, facilitate discussion, and implement qualitative and/or quantitative analyses to inform decision-making.
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Responsibilities
Decision analysis
• Establish highly collaborative, cross-functional relationships / partnerships with Asset / Project teams and other key stakeholders
• Proactively bring portfolio insights, strategic ideas, and new capabilities to stakeholders
• Facilitate discussion of strategic options
• Develop and apply appropriate analytical frameworks to help inform decision-making in the context of the business segment and the broader Pfizer portfolio
• Lead analyses across large cross-functional teams that guide strategic investment decisions by implementing decision analysis (DA) methodologies to evaluate alternatives and incorporate relevant cost, risk, and return inputs
• Communicate critical insights that impact strategic investment decisions to senior leadership and governance bodies
• Lead executive briefings and prepare teams for a decision to invest
Portfolio analysis and prioritization
• Lead / co-lead the business segment portfolio prioritization process
• Support the pan-Pfizer portfolio prioritization process
• Lead integration of project-level detail into a cohesive end-to-end portfolio story to ensure senior leadership support
• Lead cross-functional strategic R&D portfolio projects for senior stakeholders that identify portfolio trends, risks, and opportunities
• Ability to fluently answer portfolio related questions from senior leadership in a crisp, simple manner.
Strategy
• Lead analytical support for “non-asset” / strategic projects by applying appropriate analytical techniques and frameworks
• Communicate insights and recommendations to senior leadership
Qualifications
Professional characteristics
• Exceptional communicator: Can readily align interpersonal style with the individual needs of customers; can understand, translate, and distill the complex, technical findings of the team into commentary that enables senior leaders to fully comprehend the potential opportunities, costs, risks, issues, and returns – thereby facilitating effective decision-making.
• Relationship manager: Builds robust and long-term strategic relationships with individuals from all levels of the organization, understanding individual goals and objectives to ensure future alignment of the entire portfolio
• Highly collaborative: Manages projects with and through others; shares responsibility and credit; develops self and others through teamwork; helps others take appropriate risks; communicates frequently with team members earning respect and trust of the team
• Strong at project management: Clearly articulates scope and deliverables of projects; breaks complex initiatives into detailed component parts and sequences actions appropriately; develops action plans and monitors progress independently; designs success criteria and uses them to track outcomes; drives implementation of recommendations when appropriate, engages with stakeholders throughout to ensure buy-in
• Influencer: Clearly articulates expectations, capabilities, and action plans; actively listens with others’ frame of reference in mind; appropriately shares information with team; favorably influences people without direct authority,
• Financially / analytically proficient: Possesses strong understanding and expertise of expected cash flow modeling, economic value measures (e.g., NPV, IRR), and other types of analytical modeling (e.g., Monte Carlo simulation, decision tree analysis, multi-attribute analysis)
Professional experience and educational requirements
• Advanced degree in business, decision analysis, medicine / science, or related quantitative field
• At least 10 years of experience in management consulting, investment banking, finance, strategic planning, portfolio management, or decision analysis
• Expertise in healthcare required; expertise in biopharmaceuticals preferred
• Excellent Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills
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