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The Role
Provide high-level administrative support to multiple leaders: manage complex global calendars, meetings, travel, expenses, mail, and confidential correspondence. Maintain files, distribution lists, meeting minutes, purchase orders, and invoices. Prioritize urgent issues, support projects, and act autonomously with periodic supervision.
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Use Your Power for Purpose
A career with us is about discovering breakthroughs that change patients' lives. We need dedicated colleagues like you who are efficient, find solutions, and collaborate with others to achieve our purpose. A high-performing administrative team is essential to bringing those therapies to people all over the world and making a positive difference. Your role is crucial in ensuring that these life-changing therapies reach those in need, and your efficiency and collaborative spirit are key to our success. Join us in making a meaningful impact on patients' lives by being part of a team that values innovation, dedication, and teamwork.
What You Will Achieve
In this role, you will:
Here Is What You Need (Minimum Requirements)
Bonus Points If You Have (Preferred Requirements)
Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.
To learn more about acceptable and prohibited uses of AI during the recruitment process, please review our candidate AI-use guidelines available on Pfizer Careers .
Administrative
A career with us is about discovering breakthroughs that change patients' lives. We need dedicated colleagues like you who are efficient, find solutions, and collaborate with others to achieve our purpose. A high-performing administrative team is essential to bringing those therapies to people all over the world and making a positive difference. Your role is crucial in ensuring that these life-changing therapies reach those in need, and your efficiency and collaborative spirit are key to our success. Join us in making a meaningful impact on patients' lives by being part of a team that values innovation, dedication, and teamwork.
What You Will Achieve
In this role, you will:
- Provide comprehensive administrative support to multiple leaders, managing complex global calendars, scheduling high-level meetings, and handling travel arrangements and expenses.
- Oversee the management of incoming and outgoing mail, ensuring sensitive and confidential correspondence is handled appropriately.
- Assist with scheduling meetings, reserving conference rooms, setting up teleconferences, and coordinating external visits and logistics.
- Deliver quality work promptly, using judgment to prioritize and resolve urgent issues swiftly.
- Create and maintain distribution lists, organizational charts, and electronic files, supporting various projects and initiatives.
- Manage meeting minutes, follow-ups, and expedite workflow, ensuring efficient communication and task completion.
- Handle purchase orders and track invoices through the system, maintaining accurate financial records.
- Take personal accountability for the quality of work, understanding the broader implications of actions on the department.
- Thrive in a self-directed environment, assuming increased responsibility and accountability for decisions and outcomes, and providing backup assistance when needed.
- Work independently under general supervision, completing recurring assignments, establishing relationships, and proactively sharing knowledge within the work group, with periodic reviews for soundness of judgment and adherence to guidelines.
Here Is What You Need (Minimum Requirements)
- High School Diploma or GED with at least 4 years of experience
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Problem solving ability
- Demonstrated ability to proactively carry out administrative functions proficiently and complete quality work in a timely manner
- Excellent attention to detail, time management, organization, and prioritization skills
- Expert knowledge and proficiency with general office procedures such as telephone reception, customer service, and e-mail etiquette
- Experience coordinating domestic and international travel
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
Bonus Points If You Have (Preferred Requirements)
- Experience in ERP systems.
- Experience using applications such as Concur, WebEx, and Ariba
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work collaboratively with diverse teams
- Adaptability and flexibility in a fast-paced environment
- Proactive approach to identifying and addressing issues
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information with discretion
- Experience using common AI tools, including generative technologies such as ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot, to support problem solving and enhance productivity. Demonstrated curiosity for exploring how these tools can improve outcomes and understanding of responsible AI practices, including risk management and ethical use
Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.
To learn more about acceptable and prohibited uses of AI during the recruitment process, please review our candidate AI-use guidelines available on Pfizer Careers .
Administrative
Skills Required
- High School Diploma or GED with at least 4 years of experience
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Problem solving ability
- Demonstrated ability to proactively carry out administrative functions and complete quality work timely
- Excellent attention to detail, time management, organization, and prioritization skills
- Expert knowledge of general office procedures (telephone reception, customer service, e-mail etiquette)
- Experience coordinating domestic and international travel
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
- Ability to work independently under general supervision and assume accountability
- Experience in ERP systems
- Experience using Concur, WebEx, and Ariba
- Experience using common AI tools, including ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information with discretion
- Adaptability and flexibility in a fast-paced environment
- Proactive approach to identifying and addressing issues
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The Company
What We Do
Our purpose ensures that patients remain at the center of all we do. We live our purpose by sourcing the best science in the world; partnering with others in the healthcare system to improve access to our medicines; using digital technologies to enhance our drug discovery and development, as well as patient outcomes; and leading the conversation to advocate for pro-innovation/pro-patient policies.
Why Work With Us
We are the inventors, the problem solvers, the big thinkers — those who surmount any hurdle to deliver breakthrough medicines to the people who are counting on them the most.
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