People Experience Lead Biopharma Division, Philippines

The Lead People Experience (PX) serves as the strategic people partner to the Philippines Commercial Leadership Team and enabling functions. The role translates business priorities into practical people strategies and ensures disciplined execution across the colleague lifecycle.

This position has significant accountability for a unionized workforce and complex employee relations labor relations governance disciplinary and business partnership matters. Success requires strong commercial acumen independent judgment governance discipline legal and policy awareness operational rigor and the confidence to escalate risks when necessary.

• Partner with Commercial and enabling-function leaders to align people strategies with business and growth priorities.
• Act as a trusted advisor on talent leadership organization culture workforce and employee matters.
• Leverage people insights and data to identify risks challenge assumptions and support decision-making.
• Influence senior stakeholders with credibility objective judgment and professional courage.

• Lead complex employee relations matters including investigations disciplinary actions grievances performance issues workplace concerns and separations ensuring fairness confidentiality neutrality and due process.
• Ensure consistent application of company policies governance standards and legal requirements.
• Own end-to-end case quality including investigations evidence review documentation decision rationale approvals communications and closure.
• Ensure disciplinary documentation is accurate evidence-based legally defensible and appropriately reviewed.
• Maintain clear records decision trails approvals confidentiality controls and timely follow-through.
• Build manager capability to handle ER matters early fairly consistently and free from bias retaliation or conflicts of interest.

• Lead labor relations activities including union engagement grievance resolution interpretation of collective agreements and mitigation of workforce disruption.
• Partner with Legal and internal experts on labor-sensitive matters and related risks.
• Maintain constructive labor-management relationships while protecting compliance management rights and colleague dignity.
• Proactively identify and mitigate labor-related risks.

• Serve as steward of people governance by embedding strong controls approvals and decision-making practices.
• Identify and escalate employee relations labor legal compliance operational and reputational risks.
• Ensure critical actions follow required consultation documentation review approval and communication processes.
• Maintain objectivity where business pressures or competing interests exist.
• Support audit readiness and address recurring governance or execution gaps.

• Lead talent reviews succession planning performance management leadership development and critical-role planning.
• Facilitate evidence-based talent discussions with clear outcomes and accountability.
• Coach leaders on performance inclusion judgment people management and accountability.
• Build diverse and sustainable leadership pipelines.

• Advise on organization design workforce planning capability requirements and role clarity.
• Lead people-related aspects of organizational and commercial change through structured planning communication stakeholder alignment and risk management.
• Ensure organizational data and governance materials are accurate and decision-ready.

• Champion Pfizer values ethical leadership inclusion well-being and colleague experience.
• Use employee feedback and organizational insights to drive culture and engagement improvements.
• Foster an environment where concerns can be raised safely respectfully and without retaliation.

• Balance strategic leadership with hands-on execution and accountability for PX deliverables.
• Demonstrate strong planning prioritization process discipline documentation and follow-through.
• Deliver recurring people labor governance and operational responsibilities with reliability and clear ownership.
• Balance speed and business responsiveness with governance rigor and sustainable outcomes.

• Strategic Business Partnership
• Talent Management & Succession Planning
• Organizational Design & Effectiveness
• Change Leadership & Transformation
• Leadership Coaching & Development
• Culture Engagement & Employee Experience
• Employee Relations Labor Relations & Governance
• Governance Risk Management & Decision Quality
• Stakeholder Influence & Relationship Management
• Empathy Execution Excellence & Professional Courage

• Significant experience as a Senior HRBP or PX Leader supporting business leadership teams.
• Deep expertise in employee relations investigations disciplinary processes labor relations and case governance.
• Experience supporting a unionized workforce and managing high-risk labor and employee matters.
• Strong knowledge of Philippine labor and employment practices.
• Proven capability in talent management performance management succession planning leadership advisory organization effectiveness and change management.
• Ability to influence without authority build credibility and remain objective under pressure.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including preparation and review of sensitive documentation.
• Strong planning process management quality control and execution skills.
• High integrity ethical judgment confidentiality and professional courage.
• Experience in matrixed regional or complex organizations.

• Experience supporting commercial transformation restructuring workforce transitions or go-to-market change.
• Exposure to APAC or regional stakeholder environments.
• Experience working with unions employee representatives works councils or labor authorities.
• Coaching expertise and manager capability-building experience.
• Experience in highly regulated compliance-driven or values-based organizations.

• Leaders regard the PX Lead as a trusted objective and commercially astute advisor.
• Employee relations disciplinary and labor matters are handled fairly consistently promptly and with strong governance.
• Critical documentation is accurate evidence-based legally defensible and decision-ready.
• Risks are identified early escalated transparently and effectively mitigated.
• Talent and organization decisions are credible inclusive well-calibrated and action-oriented.
• People initiatives and operational responsibilities are delivered with quality discipline clarity and measurable impact.
• The roleholder is recognized for independent judgment professional courage principled influence calm confidence and strong execution.

Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.

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