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The Role
Leads complex local marketing and strategic planning initiatives in a global pharmaceutical environment. Manages teams, resources, talent development, cross-functional collaboration, market opportunities, and project execution. Influences senior leadership, aligns business-unit plans with corporate strategy, supports training, implements innovative ideas, and maintains quality standards against KPIs. Requires strong analytical, communication, people-management, strategic-planning, and project-management skills.
Summary Generated by Built In
Use Your Power for Purpose
At Pfizer, we are dedicated to delivering breakthroughs that transform patients' lives. Your contributions will be vital in navigating important discussions that impact our ability to achieve significant advancements in healthcare. Embrace the opportunity to contribute to a team committed to making a difference and help us drive forward with breakthrough solutions that change lives.
What You Will Achieve
In this role, you will:
Here Is What You Need (Minimum Requirements)
Bonus Points If You Have (Preferred Requirements)
Work Location Assignment: Hybrid
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 .
Bus Dev & Strategic Planning
#BI-Hybrid
At Pfizer, we are dedicated to delivering breakthroughs that transform patients' lives. Your contributions will be vital in navigating important discussions that impact our ability to achieve significant advancements in healthcare. Embrace the opportunity to contribute to a team committed to making a difference and help us drive forward with breakthrough solutions that change lives.
What You Will Achieve
In this role, you will:
- Set objectives and manage highly complex projects.
- Lead and allocate people, technology, and financial resources, including those outside direct authority.
- Actively share knowledge across multiple functions and contribute to knowledge management processes.
- Champion and implement innovative ideas.
- Assess talent needs, identify potential talent within the organization, and hold managers accountable for developing diverse teams.
- Lead teams to implement strategic direction and influence senior management decisions.
- Collaborate with major business units to integrate plans with corporate strategy and evaluate new market initiatives and business opportunities.
- Guide future strategy development, support relevant training design and delivery, and create a motivated, innovative, and engaged project team.
Here Is What You Need (Minimum Requirements)
- BA/BS with 6+ years of experience or MBA/MS with 5+ years of experience or PhD/JD with 1+ year of experience or MD/DVM with any years of relevant experience
- Strong people management skills and the ability to effectively lead teams
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
- Exceptional analytical skills, enabling interpretation of complex data and informed decision-making
- Effective communication skills across different levels of the organization
- Experience in strategic planning and project management within a complex, global environment
Bonus Points If You Have (Preferred Requirements)
- A Master's degree coupled with relevant pharmaceutical experience
- Experience in sales and marketing
- Strategic thinking and problem-solving capabilities
- Ability to juggle multiple priorities and manage time effectively
- Ability to develop a talent base of high-performing professionals and managers
- Experience in driving consistent quality standards in line with defined Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- 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
Work Location Assignment: Hybrid
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 .
Bus Dev & Strategic Planning
#BI-Hybrid
Skills Required
- BA/BS degree with 6 or more years of experience, MBA/MS with 5 or more years, PhD/JD with 1 or more year, or MD/DVM with relevant experience
- Strong people-management skills and ability to lead teams
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
- Exceptional analytical skills for interpreting complex data and supporting decisions
- Effective communication skills across organizational levels
- Strategic planning and project-management experience in a complex, global environment
- Master's degree with relevant pharmaceutical experience
- Experience in sales and marketing
- Strategic thinking and problem-solving capabilities
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and time effectively
- Experience developing high-performing professionals and managers
- Experience maintaining quality standards aligned with KPIs
- Experience using generative AI tools such as ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot, including responsible AI practices
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Pfizer Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive across medical, dental, vision, and mental‑health support, with strong plan options and provider networks. Feedback suggests these programs are a clear standout within the total rewards package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs feature a 401(k) with company matching plus an additional company retirement contribution. Feedback suggests these elements are consistently highlighted as valuable components of overall compensation.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid vacation, holidays, and sick time are often characterized as generous, with some locations offering the ability to purchase additional vacation days. Feedback suggests this breadth contributes meaningfully to work‑life balance.
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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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