Vice President, Marketing and Ecosystem Platforms and Engineering

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 256100 - 426800

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Pfizers purpose breakthroughs that change patients lives is rooted in being a science driven and a patient focused company. Digital technology and data are central to driving innovation at Pfizer.

The Vice President Marketing and Ecosystem Platforms and Engineering is a key leadership role within Pfizers Digital and Technology organization reporting to SVP Digital Commercial and Center for Digital Innovation (C4).

The Vice President Marketing and Ecosystem Platforms and Engineering will lead a team responsible for translating Pfizer strategy into innovative digital technology and data platforms. This role will define the strategic direction technical vision and operational excellence of the platforms that power more than10000 Marketing colleaguesacross Commercial organization as well as supporting Medical Legal and Regulatory teams across all Pfizer markets and business units globally. This leader will integrate advanced engineering practices across multiple disciplines driving innovation continuous improvement and enterprise-wide transformation. Serving as a strategic advisor to senior Digital and Commercial leadership the leader influences decisions that shape the future of Pfizers digital ecosystem and strengthen its global health impact.

The Marketing and Ecosystem Platforms and Engineering leader combines execution with vision solving complex engineering problems designing resilient architectures and ensuring delivery of high-quality platforms and services. The role leadsan organization of technical colleaguesand contracted resources building a high-performing change-agile delivery organization. Success depends on strong partnerships with senior leadership technology leaders product owners business partners and stakeholders across all levels of the enterprise.

This position demands excellent technical depth and breadth. The scope spans Pfizers entire marketing and ecosystem digital landscape with emphasis on key global platforms includingAdobe Platforms (Experience Manager Workfront Express Firefly) Web and Mobile Platform ecosystem and supporting capabilities Python and AWS based automation capabilities Salesforce Marketing CRM CDP Identity Platforms alongside emerginggenerative and agentic AI technologies. The leader is expected to evaluate solution proposals oversee vendor-managed services govern large-scale delivery programs and dive deeply into design and code-level issues when required. Accountability extends to deliveringsecurity- and privacy-first capabilitieswhile fostering an environment where engineers can do their best work and growing our strong technical talent.

Enterprise Strategy and Innovation

Define and evolve the enterprise platform strategy in alignment with Pfizers long-term business priorities and digital transformation agenda.
Embed continuous improvement and innovation into daily operations across C4 making them core to how engineering delivers.
Lead the design of solutions for complex multi-faceted problems that carry long-term impact across the enterprise.
Anticipate and address emerging challenges such as AI governance platform sustainability and developer experience ensuring resilience and adaptability.
Demonstrate deep commercial business knowledge and a strong grasp of external market trends to anticipate the needs of C4 and Pfizers global business units.

Technology Leadership

Oversee the architecture design and delivery of Pfizers global commercial platforms including Adobe suite of Platforms (Experience Manager Workfront Express Firefly) Web and Mobile Platform ecosystem and supporting capabilities Python and AWS based automation capabilities Salesforce Marketing CRM CDP and Identify Platforms.
Make enterprise-level decisions on platform selection vendor partnerships technical designs and implementation roadmaps.
Champion privacy-first and security-first engineering practices across all platforms ensuring compliance and trust at scale.
Lead FinOps strategies to optimize cloud spend improve efficiency and ensure cost transparency.
Serve as a recognized technical and functional authority in commercial architecture development disciplines and the core technology platforms central to Pfizers digital ecosystem.

Organizational Influence

Serve as a strategic advisor on enterprise-wide initiatives that impact operational and functional excellence.
Influence Pfizers senior leadership and external stakeholders through thought leadership and recognized technical expertise.
Represent C4 in enterprise governance forums cross-functional steering committees and industry engagements.

People and Culture

Define the people technology and financial resourcing strategy for the Platform Engineering team while contributing to broader C4 workforce planning.
Lead a diverse global team of leaders and engineers fostering a culture of agility inclusion accountability and excellence.
Build talent pipelines through succession planning leadership development and technical training programs that strengthen enterprise capability.
Act onDeveloper Experience (DX) surveyresults and engineer feedback to continuously improve the ease of delivery and quality of work life.
Encourage appropriate risk-taking to drive innovation balancing stability with the need for ongoing change simplification and improvement.

Delivery and Operations

Ensure delivery of high-quality platforms and services from inception through global deployment.
Oversee large-scale delivery programs platform operations and vendor partnerships with measurable business and technical outcomes.
Optimize delivery economics through disciplined estimation contract negotiation and operational efficiency.

Incident Management and Resilience

Lead responses to critical security incidents and operational outages ensuring rapid containment mitigation and recovery.
Direct technical troubleshooting and guide teams through root-cause analysis and long-term remediation.
Drive resilience engineering practices and implement post-mortem reviews to prevent recurrence.
Ensure all solutions are designed withprivacy and security by designprinciples from the outset.

QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor of Science degree in Information Management Computer Science Engineering or Technology Management preferred coupled relevant technical experience with emphasis on software development and maintenance.

Minimum of 15 years of experience as an information technology professional with increasing responsibility designing delivering and maintaining large-scale global systems in one or many roles related to platform engineering architecture and emerging technologies

Exceptional communication strategic thinking and decision-making skills. Strong interpersonal skills able to build trusted relationships influence outcomes and deliver effective presentations to diverse senior audiences.

Ability to influence enterprise strategy and lead large-scale transformation in a pharmaceutical or other regulated environment with experience leading enterprise software implementations in a global 24x7 setting.

Demonstrated proficiency and knowledge of the Pharma industry customer requirements and general business environment to adapt and implement strategic projects. Proven experience in exhibiting high level of business knowledge and understanding of the external marketplace and in anticipating business requirements.

Strong team and people leadership with experience managing large global organizations and guiding and growing leaders of leaders. Demonstrated ability to lead in a complex global matrix with geographically distributed teams and indirect resources.

Financial acumen managing financial resources and staff to meet goals across multiple functions and projects.

Vendor sourcing model definition and effective execution. Experience in vendor negotiations with cited impacts to strategic direction and in-line production products.

Familiarity with one or more of the following technologies:

Adobe enterprise Platforms including Adobe Workfront Adobe Experience Manager Adobe Express Adobe Firefly.
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Salesforce Data Cloud Salesforce LifeSciences Cloud
Generative and Agentic AI technologies and experience with leadingLarge Language Models (LLMs)
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services
AWS and other Cloud/SaaS platforms including licensing and cost optimization practices
Modernweb development frameworksand JavaScript patterns

NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS

Travel will be required as part of this role. Expectations around travel will vary but candidates must be capable of travel within the region to other regions and to Pfizer World Headquarters in NY.

Business Technology is a 7x24x365 endeavor. This role may require physical or virtual participation on a weekend holiday or after normal business hours

Last Date to Apply for Job: 11/20/2025

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $256100.00 to $426800.00. In addition this position is eligible for participation in Pfizers Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 30.0% 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 lifes 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 (). 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.

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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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