Manager, Social Engagement

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New York City, NY, USA
Hybrid
99K-165K Annually
Mid level
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The Role
Manages organic social strategy and community engagement for Pfizer brands and corporate handles. Responsibilities include editorial calendar ownership, content development and optimization, influencer coordination, community moderation, issue escalation, social listening, KPI reporting, dashboard maintenance, and integration with paid media. The role requires collaboration with marketing, legal, regulatory, medical affairs, public affairs, agencies, and brand teams while ensuring compliant content review, approvals, and lifecycle management.
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Role Summary
This position reports to the Director, Product Communications and Social Engagement Lead, and will execute the organic social strategy and community engagement across the Primary Care, Specialty Care, and Oncology businesses, as well as PfizerForAll handles. The role is responsible for delivering tactics against social communication strategies that amplify product narratives, foster meaningful connections, and protect brand reputation through compliant, social-by-design content, while ensuring alignment with overall brand and business objectives.
The individual will own the editorial calendar, build high-performing communities, and operationalize safe, responsive, and compliant social engagement programs. The ideal candidate is someone proficient in hands-on execution and collaboration with cross-functional teams, including marketing, product, and digital.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy and Planning
  • Help define the organic social strategy for Primary and Specialty Care brands and input into translation of brand narratives into platform-native content and series.
  • Help build and maintain a channel-by-channel editorial calendar (quarterly and monthly) aligned to campaigns, corporate moments, data and regulatory milestones, and product needs; integrate tagging and UTMs.

Content Operations and Execution
  • Assist in the editorial process end to end: help brief, develop, adapt, and optimize organic posts and lightweight social extensions; enforce tone of voice and style guides.
  • Support data and milestone moments through social, helping shape the communications approach and developing supporting content for owned corporate channels.
  • Coordinate influencer and partner content where relevant, ensuring taxonomy, job-code tracking, and preview/QA workflows with agencies.
  • Drive test-and-learns across formats (short video, carousels, polls) and platform features; capture learnings into playbooks.

Community Management and Safety
  • Own and govern response guidelines and escalation paths; partner with moderation vendors to manage open commenting and AE/issue response.
  • Set SLA-based listening, triage, and response standards; oversee sentiment tracking and topic tagging to inform content and stakeholder updates.
  • Help manage issues and rapid-response communications, developing materials and securing approvals as needed.

Measurement and Optimization
  • Help maintain a fit-for-purpose measurement framework and KPIs (reach, engagement rate, saves/shares, negative feedback, response SLAs, follower quality, site traffic/HVA); publish monthly readouts and quarterly deep dives.
  • Partner with Paid Media to integrate organic and paid flighting, align on briefs and tracking, and ensure cross-channel attribution; maintain dashboards and performance hygiene.

Cross-functional Collaboration
  • Assist in convening CMO, Public Affairs, Legal/Regulatory/Medical Affairs, brand teams, and agency partners to secure and compile feedback, as well as to help keep governance tight and delivery on time.
  • Ensure review and approval compliance; monitor content expiration, renewal cycles, and archive requirements.
  • Help represent Social Engagement in enterprise social councils and audience insights forums; cascade guidance and playbooks to teams.

Required Competencies
History of Executional Excellence; Strong Organization and Time Management Skills; Highly Detail-Oriented; Acts Decisively; Seizes Accountability; Builds Effective Campaigns; Eager to Grow and Learn; Strategic andCreative Thinker; Strategic & Innovative Thinking
Qualifications
  • Applicant must have a bachelor's degree with at least 4 years of experience in social media/community management, product communications, or corporate social; healthcare experience preferred.; OR a master's degree with at least 2 years of experience; OR a PhD with 0+ years of experience; OR as associate's degree with 8 years of experience; OR a high school diploma (or equivalent) and 10 years of relevant experience
  • Track record building brand communities and editorial operations at scale, as well as organizational skills and attention to detail.
  • Fluency with enterprise social tools (e.g., Sprinklr), listening/monitoring, and analytics; strong stakeholder and agency management.
  • Deep familiarity with medical/legal/regulatory review processes and content life-cycle management (approvals, expirations).
  • Excellent written, oral, communication skills and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to develop, implement and measure success of platforms.
  • Ability to work effectively across functions and levels across highly matrixed organization and manage multiple projects against tight deadlines.
  • Self-starter, able to work independently as well as with teams.

Non-Standard Work Schedule, Travel Or Environment Requirements
  • Willing to travel up to 10% of the time for business purpose (within USA).
  • Ability to physically go into Pfizer office; in line with company policy.

Organizational Relationships
  • In-house Media teams
  • CMO organization
  • Global Media/Public Affairs
  • Legal, Regulatory, Medical Affairs
  • Product brand teams
  • External agencies/partners

Resources Managed
  • Financial Accountability: multi-million dollar budgets / oversight of agency resources.
  • Individual contributor.

Work Location Assignment: Hybrid
Other Job Details:
Last day to apply: September 28, 2026
The annual base salary for this position ranges from $99,200.00 to $165,400.00. In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer's Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 12.5% of the base salary and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program. We offer comprehensive and generous benefits and programs to help our colleagues lead healthy lives and to support each of life's moments. Benefits offered include a 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions and an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution, paid vacation, holiday and personal days, paid caregiver/parental and medical leave, and health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage. Learn more at Pfizer Candidate Site - U.S. Benefits | (uscandidates.mypfizerbenefits.com). Pfizer compensation structures and benefit packages are aligned based on the location of hire. The United States salary range provided does not apply to Tampa, FL or any location outside of the United States.
Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.
Candidates must be authorized to be employed in the U.S. by any employer.
U.S. work visa sponsorship (such as TN, O-1, H-1B, etc.) is not available for this role now or in the future.
Sunshine Act
Pfizer reports payments and other transfers of value to health care providers as required by federal and state transparency laws and implementing regulations. These laws and regulations require Pfizer to provide government agencies with information such as a health care provider's name, address and the type of payments or other value received, generally for public disclosure. Subject to further legal review and statutory or regulatory clarification, which Pfizer intends to pursue, reimbursement of recruiting expenses for licensed physicians may constitute a reportable transfer of value under the federal transparency law commonly known as the Sunshine Act. Therefore, if you are a licensed physician who incurs recruiting expenses as a result of interviewing with Pfizer that we pay or reimburse, your name, address and the amount of payments made currently will be reported to the government. If you have questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact your Talent Acquisition representative.
EEO & Employment Eligibility
Pfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status. Pfizer also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA. Pfizer is an E-Verify employer. This position requires permanent work authorization in the United States.
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Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree and at least 4 years of experience in social media/community management, product communications, or corporate social; healthcare experience preferred
  • Master's degree and at least 2 years of relevant experience, as an alternative qualification
  • PhD with 0 or more years of relevant experience, as an alternative qualification
  • Associate's degree and 8 years of relevant experience, as an alternative qualification
  • High school diploma or equivalent and 10 years of relevant experience, as an alternative qualification
  • Track record building brand communities and managing editorial operations at scale
  • Experience with enterprise social tools such as Sprinklr, social listening and monitoring, and analytics
  • Strong stakeholder and agency management skills
  • Familiarity with medical, legal, and regulatory review processes and content lifecycle management
  • Excellent written, oral, communication, and interpersonal skills
  • Ability to develop, implement, and measure platform success
  • Ability to work across functions and organizational levels in a highly matrixed organization and manage multiple projects against tight deadlines
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively
  • Permanent U.S. work authorization and authorization to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship

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Pfizer Compensation & Benefits Highlights

  • Healthcare Strength Health coverage is described as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, vision, and robust mental‑health benefits, with eligible Pfizer medications available at no cost in U.S. plans. Family‑building support and transgender‑inclusive care are explicitly included, alongside wellbeing resources such as a reimbursement wallet and telehealth options.
  • Retirement Support Retirement programs feature a 401(k) with company matching plus an additional Retirement Savings Contribution, complemented by company‑subsidized life, short‑term disability, and long‑term disability insurance. Materials also reference subsidized retiree medical coverage for eligible groups.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Paid vacation, holidays, personal days, and paid parental and caregiver leave are consistently highlighted in current U.S. summaries and job postings. Options like buying extra vacation days and transition‑back support strengthen the time‑off offering.

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