PGS AI Strategy & Realization Lead

Pfizer

Job Location:

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 230900 - 384800

Posted on: 9 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Use Your Power for Purpose

The PGS AI Strategy & Realization Lead is the divisions foremost AI expert accountable for defining governing and realizing measurable value from Artificial Intelligence across Pfizer Global Supply (PGS). Reporting to the VP PGS Data Analytics & AI Transformation and serving on its leadership team the role sets the multi-year AI vision spanning planning manufacturing quality logistics and external supply and owns the PGS AI Council the divisions governing body for AI strategy best practices and sustainable cost-effective delivery.

This is a lead-vet-govern organization not a build-everything team.PGSleaders own their own AI strategy and execution; this role ensures AI and citizen development investments across PGS are coordinated responsibly governed and consistentlyvalue-driven.

The leader chairs the AI Council sets responsible AI guardrails in partnership with Quality Digital and Legal protects dedicated capacity for emerging-technology innovation and builds lasting AI capability and talent within PGS functions rather than dependency on a central teampositioning PGS at the forefront of AI-enabled operational excellence.

What You Will Achieve

In this role you will:

AI Strategy Roadmap & Value Realization

Set and own the divisions multi-year AI strategy and roadmapfrom vision and business case through prioritization execution benefits realization and sustainment;holding the portfolio accountable to measurable business outcomes and decisively retiring capabilities that no longer create value.

Partner with Digital to govern the divisions AI tokenutilizationand spend strategy setting budget expectations cost transparency and responsible-use guardrails that protect enterprise value.

AI Council Leadership &PGS LeadershipEnablement

Chair and run the PGS AI Councilincluding PGSAI leads PGS Data Analytics & AI Transformation leadership and Digital leadershipto govern shared best practices and cost-effective delivery pressure-testPGSstrategies standardize what works and retire what does not division-wide.

Leverage the Council as a forum for continuous education and innovation-sharing surfacing emerging AI research technologies and techniques from across Pfizer andbeyond and creating space for members to share insights as the AI landscape rapidly evolves.

Deploy targeted execution bandwidth from a bench of highly respected AI experts to supportPGS leadstoward a self-sufficient citizen-developer future and establish a consistent operating model for dual-hatted AI Transformation Interface Leads who enable but never own PGSAI strategy and realization holding them to a common standard that reliably meets leaders needs.

Innovation & Emerging Technology Leadership

Position the organization as PGSs innovation center for AI byestablishingand protecting dedicated capacity to research emerging AI technologies tools and techniques and evaluate their potential to drive value across the division.

Translate this research into practical actionable recommendationsbydetermining not just what is possible but what is worth pursuing in a PGS context and share findings broadly through the AI Council and wider PGS community sustaining this innovation capability as a core ongoing function central to the roles credibility as the divisions foremost AI expert.

AI Application Areas

Identify and pursue high-value AI opportunities across PGS operations across the full end-to-end supply network from raw material procurement through distribution to the first paying customer applying automation decision support process coordination modeling and alert monitoring to drive measurable improvement across operations reporting and disclosure.

Advance AI for engineering applications and strengthen management practicesat all levelsthrough AI-enabled issue identification escalation decision support information sharing and performance tracking across the entire management system.

DeployGenAI optimization automation and intelligent agents to make colleagues highly productive in their current and future roles investing in the education communities of practice and enablement that build lasting capability.

Responsible AI Governance & Compliance

Partner with Quality Digital and other relevant organizations to build and sustain responsible AI frameworks spanning compliance auditability risk management explainability and human oversight; own the AI use-case inventory and associated documentation in Collibra and other officially approved platforms (particularly standard Digital platforms for use-case registration) ensuring consistent governance across all systems of record.

AssessPGSAI strategies and other qualifying use casesper criteria set jointly with the Head of PGS AI Strategy &Realization Quality and Digital leadershipagainst Qualitys AIRIF and AI QRB frameworks and applicable Pfizer/PGS policies; co-own a shared audit and sustainment process with Quality and Digital to ensure ongoing review and continued performance against required expectations.

AI & Citizen Development Literacy Adoption & Talent Development

Define and lead the divisions AI literacy strategybuildingon Pfizers broader corporate AI literacy programs anddevelopingPGS-specific content only where truly needed; establish a citizen development literacy program that teaches colleagues the approved platforms effective use and the controls and guardrails required for responsible adoption.

Partner with the PGS-Digital Portfolio Governance & Realization organizations Engagement & Adoption center of excellence to lead change management and adoption for major AI and citizen development initiatives ensuring new capabilities and ways of working are embedded and sustained; grow AI talent across both this organizations own bench of experts and embedded capability within PGS functions fostering a culture of continuous learning that develops and retains industry-leading technical talent rather than concentrating it in a central team.

In partnership with Digital and aligned with the broader corporate strategy define the divisions approach to systematically capturing situations decisions rationale and outcomes across PGSenabling this information to train Pfizers AI models and support ongoing organizational learning and decision intelligence over time.

Key Capabilities

Leading Through Change: Demonstrated experience leading leaders and teams through complex change including navigating ambiguity influencing across stakeholders and sustaining performance during transformation.
Digital Literacy and AI Fluency: Strong digital literacy including practical experience leveraging data digital tools and AIenabled solutions to drive innovation efficiency and better decisionmaking.
EndtoEnd Process Thinking: Proven ability to think and operate endtoend connecting strategy to execution across functions and anticipating downstream impacts to deliver integrated enterpriselevel solutions.

Here Is What You Need (Minimum Requirements):

Applicant must have aBachelors/BS in Computer Science AI Machine Learning Data Science Engineering Mathematics Physics or related technical field with 12 years relevant experience;OR aMastersdegree with at least 10 years of experience; OR a PhD with 7 years of experience.

Deep technicalexpertisein AI ML and/or data science including hands-on experience with modern AIarchitectures GenAI LLMs and intelligent agents sufficient to credibly evaluate challenge and guide the technical direction of AI solutions.

Demonstrated success defining and leading an enterprise-scale AI/Digital strategy and roadmap (business case through sustainment) with senior-management accountability.

Proven leadership of a business-critical highly technical team building a high-performing culture of trusted independent ownership; proven success recruiting developing andretainingtop-tier AI talent.

A self-directed hands-on learner who builds experiments and studies to stay at the leading edge of AI an essential and defining trait given the rapid evolution of the field.

Demonstrated experienceestablishingand running a governance body (council board orCoE) thatvetsstrategy and drives standardization across a matrixed organization without owning execution.

Ability to partner with Digital Quality or equivalent organizations toestablishresponsible AI frameworks; working knowledge of AI/citizen development platforms and governance/inventory tools (e.g. Collibra).

Strong pharmaceutical supply chain or comparable business acumen; proven ability to excel in a highly matrixed federated organization.

Business-level fluency in English (written and verbal)for effective global collaboration and executive communication.

Bonus Points If You Have (Preferred Requirements):

Advanced degree (Mastersor PhD) in a related technical field from a program recognized for rigor and innovation in AI.

Direct hands-on experience building training or fine-tuning AI/ML models GenAI applications or intelligent agents personally not solely overseeing others.

Demonstrated record of true invention or innovation (patent novel solution open-source contribution or widely adopted tool) and evidence of exceptional achievement in anywalk of life.

Experience briefing C-suite/most-senior leaders; regulated-industry experience; startup/founding experience; and an active external AI community network to keep Pfizer at the leading edge.

NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS

Up to 15%domesticand international travel including T5 site visits and external AI conferences and forums tomaintaincurrency with the field.

Willingness to work off-hours across global time zones and extended hours during peak periods (e.g. major AI go-lives Council sessions or urgentresponsible-AImatters).

Other Job Details:

Relocation Assistance: NO

Work Location Assignment:Hybrid

Last date to apply: August 4th 2026

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $230900.00 to $384800.00. In addition this position is eligible for participation in Pfizers Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 25.0% 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. 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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EEO & Employment Eligibility

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Use Your Power for PurposeThe PGS AI Strategy & Realization Lead is the divisions foremost AI expert accountable for defining governing and realizing measurable value from Artificial Intelligence across Pfizer Global Supply (PGS). Reporting to the VP PGS Data Analytics & AI Transformation and servin...