Advanced Degree (MD/PhD/MPH) Strategy & Consulting Summer Associate

**Before applying, please follow the Application Recommendations below to ensure your application is reviewed**

Why Pfizer

At Pfizer, you’ll find an inclusive environment, challenging projects and the opportunity to own your career. Seize the ability to think differently and collaborate with innovative minds to influence some of the most critical issues facing healthcare worldwide. Foster your career and join a team that is striving for breakthroughs that change patients’ lives.
 

What You Will Achieve

The Strategy & Consulting (S&C) Summer Associate is part of our Chief Business Innovation Office and is responsible for working on projects or specific pieces of work to shape, develop, and enable execution of strategies that will advance and purposefully grow the business.

Each Strategy & Consulting Summer Associate will report into a project area “Vertical.” The Verticals are described below.

• U.S. Primary Care + Specialty Care: Encompasses Pfizer’s commercial efforts in Internal Medicine, Vaccines, and Antivirals, as well as Inflammation & Immunology, Rare Disease, and our Hospital portfolio.  

• Global Commercial Platforms:  Encompasses 3 global commercial platforms – Marketing, Medical Affairs, and Market Access.  

• Oncology Division: Encompasses end-to-end Oncology from Research & Development to Commercial. 

• International Commercial Division:  Consists of the commercial organizations and corresponding P&Ls in all ex U.S. markets. 

• Corporate and Pfizer Research & Development: Encompasses a wide range of Corporate Functions and strategy projects for Research and Development.

While this position reports into the S&C team organizationally, this person will stay connected to key business challenges and opportunities as articulated by the Business Unit (BU) leadership teams, ensuring that there is alignment with strategic priorities, and/or recommending adjustments to priorities when necessary. The scope of the role will include contributions to BU strategic planning, contributions to projects related to key strategic issues, and insight and assessment of market signals that could impact business performance or strategic direction.

The S&C Summer Associate will need to be highly proactive, work collaboratively with other groups, have strong attention to detail along with written, verbal and listening skills, presentation skills, teaming, facilitation, mental agility, and relationship building skills.

How You Will Achieve It

• Contribute to the development of business strategies at a global, and where appropriate, a local level, by managing workstreams across a portfolio of projects that provide insight and direction on key strategic levers, such as market development, customer needs assessment, competitive advantage, market and/or product prioritization. 

• Contribute to the completion of annual strategic plans, as well as aligned strategic action plans. 

• Develop and maintain an understanding of market dynamics in order to identify market trends and appropriately assess opportunities and guide strategic direction. Provide perspective on the potential impact of external market signals that could impact future business performance. 

• Understand the priorities of the internal BU business partners and/or corporate functional leads to understand business needs and represent the current status of opportunity evaluations. 

• Actively participate in the assigned S&C team learning opportunities through hands on project experiences, role-specific professional development trainings, and sharing sessions.

• Create an engaging and productive work environment where team members are encouraged to collaborate and excel. 

Application Recommendations

To ensure your resume is thoroughly reviewed, we kindly suggest following the recommendations below:

• Make sure to submit an updated resume, no longer than 1-2 pages.

• Include your program start date (month/year) and graduation date (month/year)

• Do not include personal references

• While we value your academic contributions, please do NOT attach your publications, abstracts, research summaries, etc. to this application

• A Cover Letter is optional. If you choose to attach one, kindly ensure it doesn’t exceed one page.

Qualifications
Must-Have

• Bachelor’s degree

• Currently enrolled in Full-Time MD/PhD/MPH program

• Graduation date no later than Summer/Fall 2026

• A minimum of 3 years of full-time work experience including independent laboratory/clinical research, internships in healthcare, technology and/or strategy/management consulting firms.

• Basic understanding of trends and market dynamics in US and Global healthcare and biopharmaceuticals, basic understanding of competitor strategies, and basic understanding of the drug development process. 

• Demonstrated ability to influence key stakeholders without direct authority (Department leaders and functional counterparts). Must be able to influence a wide range of stakeholders, including commercial and research & development leaders. 

• Demonstrated strong strategic thinking skills, as evidenced by the ability to tee up the right questions, identify alternative scenarios, articulate resulting implications, and develop recommendations for decision-making or action. 

• Ability to understand and translate market and competitive dynamics into strategic implications for the BUs. 

• Demonstrated project leadership potential, managing workstreams and small teams of cross-functional colleagues with varying backgrounds and skillsets. 

• Basic understanding of finance and Profit and Loss (P&L) implications of any strategy

• Ability to work with complex information and distill into a framework that helps facilitate decision making, while maintaining attention to detail and accuracy. 

• Ability to work effectively in a matrix organization and lead with indirect authority, while prioritizing and managing time effectively. 

• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills, sufficient to address Global BU Leadership and external audiences. 

• Demonstrated high learning agility, “team player” mentality, and positive attitude and poise under pressure. 

• Strong command of English language, spoken and written.

Nice-to-Have

• Degree in life sciences

• Healthcare/biopharma management consulting experience

• Leadership role in consulting, healthcare, or entrepreneurship/VC club

Work Authorization  

• Must be immediately authorized to work in the U.S. on a permanent basis. This job is not eligible for nonimmigrant visa (e.g. H-1B) or permanent residence (green card) sponsorship under our guidelines. Pfizer is an Equal Opportunity and E-Verify Employer.

Other Job Details

• Work Location Assignment: Advanced Degree Summer Associates work out of Pfizer’s New York Headquarters in Hudson Yards, Manhattan and will be expected to come into the office 4 days a week to connect and innovate with their team face-to-face.

• This opportunity is meant for the Summer of 2025.

• Last Date to Apply for Job: November 8th, 2024.

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $83,500.00 to $139,100.00. In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 0.0% of the base salary. 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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