Director, GH&B Strategy & Strategic Planning

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The Director GH&B Strategy & Strategic Planning serves as the strategic backbone of the Global Hospital & Biosimilars (GH&B) business. This role is accountable for shaping maintaining and advancing a coherent GH&B strategic plan ensuring clarity of strategic direction which enables aligned decision-making across the GH&B leadership team and long-range value creation. This is a high-visibility high-impact individual contributor role reporting directly to the GH&B Portfolio & Lifecycle Management Lead.

Reporting to the GH&B Portfolio & Lifecycle Management Lead operates as a high-impact trusted integrator and thought partner to the GH&B leadership team by providing strategic clarity synthesis and enterprise context to shape the business not manage day-to-day execution. The role ensures strategic rigor coherence and alignment across portfolio lifecycle business development transformation and operations.

Key elements of the role include:

• Ownership of the GH&B strategic plan and its integration across portfolio lifecycle and business development pillars

• Development and maintenance of a compelling consistent strategic narrative for GH&B leadership and enterprise audiences

• Strategic planning process design and facilitation including long-range planning cycles and annual strategy refresh

• Synthesis of competitive intelligence market dynamics and enterprise signals into actionable strategic guidance

• Cross-functional coherence ensuring strategy transformation and operations are pointed in the same direction

What You Will Achieve

GH&B Strategic Plan Ownership

• Serve as single point of accountability for developing maintaining and evolving the GH&B strategic plan ensuring integration across from Portfolio Strategy Lifecycle Business Development Transformation Operations Finance and Commercial functions.
• Ensure the strategic plan reflects enterprise priorities GH&Bs long-range ambitions and a clear point of view on where and how to compete in global hospital and biosimilars markets
• Lead the design orchestration and evolution of annual and multi-year strategic planning cycles ensuring timely high-quality outputs that inform governance and leadership decision-making

Strategic Narrative & Communications

• Develop and steward a clear compelling strategic narrative for GH&B that resonates with executive enterprise and external audiences
• Translate complex strategic choices into structured frameworks decision narratives and materials that accelerate alignment and decision speed
• Partner with the Chief of Staff and GH&B CEO office to ensure messaging coherence across internal and external forums

Strategic Intelligence & Insight Generation

• Monitor and synthesize competitive market and macro-environmental intelligence and trends relevant to the GH&B portfolio including generic/multisource dynamics biosimilar market evolution and industry structural trends
• Translate external insights into practical strategic implications and recommendations for GH&B leadership to elevate discussions beyond functional perspectives
• Bring an external strategic perspective and consulting rigor to enterprise and business planning conversations

Cross-Functional Coherence & Integration

• Act as a strategic integrator across the Portfolio & Lifecycle Management team and GH&Bs transformation and business development agendas
• Ensure alignment between the business strategic plan and priorities of senior leadership responsible for Portfolio Strategy Lifecycle and Business Development
• Proactively identify and resolve strategic gaps misalignments or sequencing issues and recommend paths forward

Leadership Engagement & Governance Support

• Prepare and present high-quality strategic materials for GH&B leadership forums board-level discussions and enterprise forums
• Serve as advisor to GH&B Portfolio & Lifecycle Management Lead and senior leadership team on strategic direction resource framing and enterprise positioning
• Operate with a bias for clarity simplification and speed reducing ambiguity and enabling faster better-informed decisions
  

Here Is What You Need (Minimum Requirements)

• Applicant must have a bachelors degree with at least 8 years of experience; OR a masters degree with at least 7 years of experience; OR a PhD with 5 years of experience.

• Demonstrated experience in the generics multisource or broader pharmaceutical industry including familiarity with portfolio dynamics market structure and competitive economics

• Proven track record developing corporate strategic plans strategic narratives and executive-level strategic materials

• Strong analytical and synthesis capability able to move from ambiguous inputs to clear structured recommendations

• Exceptional communicator with demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders and drive alignment across functions without direct authority

• Comfortable operating as an individual contributor in a lean high-expectations environment

Bonus Points If You Have (Preferred Requirements)

• Prior consulting experience at a top-tier strategy firm or internal strategy/corporate development function

• Experience working in or alongside a business unit undergoing significant transformation restructuring or strategic repositioning

• Familiarity with biosimilars sterile injectables or global hospital supply chain dynamics

• Track record engaging with C-suite and senior enterprise leadership as a strategic advisor

• Ability to build trust rapidly and operate effectively in a newly formed evolving team structure
  
  
  PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS
  None
  
  NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS
  Approx 20% work travel.
  
  Work Location Assignment:Hybrid

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $189200.00 to $315400.00. In addition this position is eligible for participation in Pfizers Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 22.5% 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 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. This role is posted in multiple locations. If you are applying for the role in an secondary job posting location where pay transparency regulations apply your Talent Advisor will share the local pay information with you during the first interview.

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.

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