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All over the world Pfizer colleagues work together to positively impact health for everyone everywhere. Our colleagues have the opportunity to grow and develop a career that offers both individual and company success; be part of an ownership culture that values diversity and where all colleagues are energized and engaged; and the ability to impact the health and lives of millions of people. Pfizer a global leader in the biopharmaceutical industry is continuously seeking top talent who are inspired by our purpose to innovate to bring therapies to patients that significantly improve their lives.

Right now we are seeking highly qualified candidates to fill the position:

Director Analytics Program Management (m/f/d)

Imagine what you could do here at Pfizer. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there is no telling what you could accomplish. We are looking for Directors of Program Managers (PMP) leading a portfolio of complex high visibility initiatives. Reporting to the International Markets PMP Team Lead this person will be responsible for leading the Agile processes that structure our delivery and prioritization process across large scale complex Global Commercial Analytics projects. You will be a part of the Global Commercial Analytics organization supporting your brand or therapeutic areas technical project management needs for analytics capability and data product delivery. You will partner with data scientists data engineers and market researchers to understand their challenges work through their issues and track activities under various initiatives.

The ideal candidate is someone with a proven program management track record sound technical knowledge and skills in managing complex analytics and data product capabilities in Agile while running projects under bold timelines. We are looking for someone to take charge and be responsible for managing ambiguity and help to pave the way for the teams to engage. You communicate responsibilities and scope clearly escalate often while valuing integrity and always maintaining an open mind. You can handle short timelines protect peoples time and have the intellectual curiosity to constantly learn unlearn and re-learn.

Role Summary:

• You will create and deliver program roadmaps for analytics products and projects by partnering with Insights Strategy & Execution (IIS) Data Scientist Data Engineering Gateway Digital and other partner teams in CMO and ICD Commercial such as Business Transformation

• You will initiate programs by establishing and documenting the scope and the schedule. You will work across stakeholder groups to proactively identify and manage risks and dependencies and adjust as needed. You will also handle communication to stakeholders the teams and cross-functional partners. You will manage the development teams backlog and prioritize work to meet the program expectations and offer data and planning expertise for working through prioritization challenges.

• You will work with leadership to consolidate larger priorities into a portfolio that is managed with agility to pivot quickly. You will establish Agile best practice for the delivery of a roadmap for a strategic Commercial vertical of priorities with in that portfolio. This role will require you to plan prioritize broker solutions and drive alignment across multiple stakeholder groups including Product Business Data Science Gateway and Digital teams. PMPs must demonstrate business sense communicate clearly with business leaders and bring structure and clarity to uncertain situations with competing priorities. Most importantly the best PMPs are amazing teammates effective and considerate leaders and champions of an empowering and inclusive team culture.

Role Responsibilities:

• Develop plans for large scale initiatives working collaboratively large matrixed teams of IIS Data Scientists Engineers Market Research and Governance & Transformation leaders.

• Leverage strong relationships with key leaders across a variety of teams to support current and future initiatives.

• Serve as the advisor to other teams and International Markets PMP Lead to develop group strategy.

• Leveraging a variety of communication skills to effectively communicate the strategic narrative of your analytics project portfolio influencing senior management.

• Promotes innovation and takes risk to challenge status quo Identifying new business opportunities and developing solutions that balance impact cost resourcing timeline success likelihood and risk.

• Identify data-driven areas of waste and propose optimization strategies.

• Anticipates issues that impact project plans and proactively suggest mitigations.

• Demonstrate foresight and judgement in complex decisions and troubleshoots ambiguous situations to provide clarity for cross functional teams.

• Your team will lead the Jira based Agile prioritization process for each vertical

• Managing business-critical metrics on workload and performance across complex portfolio of projects of the Analytics team for the International Markets PMP Team Leader and creating analytic products to track these metrics.

• Execute day-to-day project management activities across portfolio of projects that include coordinating activities between internal teams and partners tracking progress towards achievements continuously anticipating changes to plans and keeping teams and leadership updated on status.

• Leading regular executive communication with teammates partners and leadership and conducting periodic reviews with executive sponsors.

About You

• BA/BS in Computer Science Mathematics Statistics or Engineering or similar related field required; MS or MBA preferred.

• 10 years of relevant experience demonstrating career progression through levels of responsibility leading projects within data engineering analytics or other related settings.

• PMP PRINCE2 PMI-ACP CSM SAFe certified or equivalent required; must have a proven track record of setting up and leading agile development using SAFe Scrum XP etc.

• Experience leading cross functional teams in a working in a dynamic results-driven environment.

• Mastery of complex business engineering and analytic issues and provide in-depth evaluations of underlying causes and potential solutions.

• Experience in implementation of prioritization programs roadmaps using KPI/OKR methodology and program management required; portfolio management is a plus.

• Experience in managing trade-offs and prioritizing using data across portfolio of projects.

• A creative problem solver with an excellent ability to influence without authority.

• Mastery of influencing without authority leveraging written and verbal communication and presentation skills across all organizational levels.

• The ability to filter and distill relevant information for the right audience.

• Solid sense of ownership customer service collaboration and integrity

• Proactive in approach focus on innovation and ability to learn new technologies.

• Ability to manage conflicting ideas concepts and creating an environment to ensure all voices are heard and to own the hard calls.

• Ability to work outside own area of expertise perform business discovery simplify problems extract key information and propose innovative solutions.

• Inquisitiveness and a desire for continued self-improvement and development of new skills

• Healthcare Industry experience with understanding of commercial processes

• Data science or machine learning experience Management consulting or other relevant product management experience a plus.