United States - Pennsylvania - Collegeville
United States - New York - New York City
We’re in relentless pursuit of breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. We innovate every day to make the world a healthier place.
To fully realize Pfizer’s purpose – Breakthroughs that change patients’ lives – we have established a clear set of expectations regarding “what” we need to achieve for patients and “how” we will go about achieving those goals.
Pfizer Research & Development serves as the beating heart of Pfizer's trailblazing product pipeline, the essence of our mission to bring life-changing medicines to the world.
Why Patients Need You
Pfizer's Worldwide Medical and Safety colleagues play a key role in connecting evidence-based medical decision support with colleagues and stakeholders to enable better health and treatment outcomes. Our mission is simple: empower healthcare decisions regarding the safe and appropriate use of medicines for patients.
What You Will Achieve
You will ensure that the clinical studies conducted in the Pfizer Biopharma Group are within time, budget, and scope. You will help us plan and direct the clinical studies, create timelines, and communicate these timelines to the team. Your ability to meet agreed targets will help us develop plans for short-term work activities like deliverables, workplan, and timelines.
As a Director, you are a subject matter expert who leverages your knowledge of industry, customer requirements, and business environment to adapt and implement strategic actions for the division. Your managerial skills will help us manage and lead people, technological, and financial resources within the division.
How You Will Achieve It
- Set objectives for and manage multiple projects and ongoing work activities within a Global Business Unit/Global Operating Unit.
- Act as a single, authoritative source of study information and lead study level status reporting per organizational norms and expectations.
- Lead the study team and associated deliverables across all functions; accountable for managing and driving overall study timelines, budgets, and quality targets to meet or exceed business needs.
- Accountable to ensure effective study team scheduling, records, and communications.
- Accountable for strategic planning and decision making at the study level in line with program objectives.
- Utilize negotiation, facilitation, meeting management, and conflict resolution skills to enhance cross-functional study team performance.
- Represent clinical operations on the asset level teams as per organizational expectations and asset team charter.
- Define optimal operational strategy and define timeline, resourcing, and budget needs for execution of the clinical plan for the asset/program.
- Establish and ensure adherence to operational standards and best practices for the asset or program.
- Partner with business unit leaders to assess development program timelines and budgets.
- Review annual individual objectives and development plans and perform periodic performance evaluation of direct reports.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- Bachelor's Degree (BA/BS) and 14+ years of experience.
- Knowledge of GCP and a good understanding of the processes associated with study/project management, monitoring, clinical and regulatory operations.
- Well-developed planning, observation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Current experience overseeing Obesity trials.
Nice-to-Have
- Master’s (MS) degree and 12+ years relevant pharmaceutical experience.
- Doctorate (PhD/PharmD) and 9+ years of experience.
- Detail oriented & possesses technical expertise (e.g., spreadsheets, metrics & data flow management).
- Exceptional interpersonal skills, including ability to persuade, negotiate and moderate conflict.
- Successful experience working with outside vendors contracted to perform clinical operations activities desired.
- Experienced with ownership of budgets.
- 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.
Work Location Assignment: On Premise, this role would be an average of 2.5 days per week in-office. (NYHQ, Collegeville, PA or Groton, CT)
The annual base salary for this position ranges from $161,600.00 to $269,400.00. In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 20.0% of the base salary.
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