Senior Manager, Program Management
- India - Mumbai
ROLE SUMMARY
The AI Acceleration (AIA) function within the Chief Marketing Office (CMO) is the single, business-led engine that owns the design, delivery, and scale-up of priority AI capabilities across Commercial. AIA works in tight collaboration with various Pfizer functions to deploy and maintain production-grade AI solutions that simplify how we work and drive measurable value across all processes.
As a Program Manager in the newly formed AIA team, you will work closely with global PMO team to develop and execute plans for large-scale AI initiatives, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities and timelines
and deliver measurable business value globally.
Role Responsibilities:
- Develop plans for large scale initiatives, working collaboratively large matrixed teams of ISEs, Data Scientists, Engineers, Product Owners and Governance & Transformation leaders.
- Leverage strong relationships with key leaders across a variety of teams to support current and future initiatives.
- Leveraging a variety of communication skills to effectively communicate the strategic narrative of your analytics project portfolio, influencing senior management.
- Promotes innovation and takes risk to challenge status quo, Identifying new business opportunities and developing solutions that balance impact, cost, resourcing, timeline, success likelihood, and risk.
- Identify data-driven areas of waste and propose optimization strategies.
- Anticipates issues that impact project plans and proactively suggest mitigations.
- Demonstrate foresight and judgement in complex decisions and troubleshoots ambiguous situations to provide clarity for cross functional teams.
- Managing business-critical metrics on workload and performance, across complex portfolio of projects, of the Analytics team and creating analytic products to track these metrics.
- Execute day-to-day project management activities across portfolio of projects that include, coordinating activities between internal teams and partners, tracking progress towards achievements, continuously anticipating changes to plans, and keeping teams and leadership updated on status.
- Leading regular executive communication with teammates, partners, and leadership and conducting periodic reviews with executive sponsors.
- BA/BS in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or Engineering or similar related field required; MS or MBA preferred.
- 9+ years of relevant experience, demonstrating career progression through levels of responsibility leading projects within data engineering, analytics, or other related settings.
- PMP, PRINCE2, PMI-ACP, CSM, SAFe certified or equivalent required; must have a proven track record of setting up and leading agile development using SAFe, Scrum, XP etc.
- Experience leading cross functional teams in a working in a dynamic, results-driven environment.
- Experience in implementation of prioritization programs, roadmaps using KPI/OKR methodology, and program management required; portfolio management is a plus.
- Experience in managing trade-offs and prioritizing using data across portfolios of projects.
- A creative problem solver with an excellent ability to influence without authority.
- Mastery of influencing without authority, leveraging written and verbal communication and presentation skills across all organizational levels.
- The ability to filter and distill relevant information for the right audience.
- Solid sense of ownership, customer service, collaboration, and integrity
- Proactive in approach, focus on innovation and ability to learn new technologies.
- Ability to manage conflicting ideas, concepts, and creating an environment to ensure all voices are heard, and to own the hard calls.
- Ability to work outside own area of expertise, perform business discovery, simplify problems, extract key information, and propose innovative solutions.
- Inquisitiveness and a desire for continued self-improvement and development of new skills
- Healthcare Industry experience, with understanding of commercial processes
- Data science or machine learning experience, Management consulting, or other relevant product management experience a plus.
Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.
Information & Business TechBreakthroughs that change patients’ lives
Research confirms what intuition tells us: that purpose-driven companies perform better, are more innovative, attract and retain the best people, and know how to unleash the power of those people. Pfizer’s purpose—Breakthroughs that change patients' lives—fuels everything we do and reflects our passion for building on our legacy as one of the greatest contributors of good to the world.
Each word in our purpose has meaning and reflects the value we strive to bring to patients and society:
“Breakthroughs” - These are the innovations, scientific and commercial, that we seek to deliver every day. All colleagues, regardless of role, level or location, strive for breakthroughs every day.
“Change” - We want to do more than simply improve patients’ medical conditions; we want to dramatically change their lives for the better.
“Patients’ lives” - We consider not only patients, but everyone they touch—including their families, caregivers, and friends—and everything they love to do. It’s an intentionally holistic view.
Our purpose ensures that patients remain at the center of all we do. We live our purpose by sourcing the best science in the world; partnering with others in the healthcare system to improve access to our medicines; using digital technologies to enhance our drug discovery and development, as well as patient outcomes; and leading the conversation to advocate for pro-innovation/pro-patient policies.
Every decision we make and every action we take is done with the patient in mind—and to nurture an environment where breakthroughs can thrive.
Our Values
To fully realize Pfizer’s purpose, we have established a clear set of expectations regarding “what” we need to achieve for patients and “how” we will go about achieving those goals.
The “how” is represented by four simple, powerful values—courage, excellence, equity, and joy—that define our company and our culture.
Courage: Breakthroughs start by challenging convention, especially in the face of uncertainty or adversity. This happens when we think big, speak up, and are decisive.
Excellence: We can only change patients’ lives when we perform at our best together. This happens when we focus on what matters, agree who does what, and measure our outcomes.
Equity: We believe that every person deserves to be seen, heard, and cared for. This happens when we are inclusive, act with integrity, and reduce healthcare disparities.
Joy: We give ourselves to our work, but it also gives to us. We find joy when we take pride, recognize one another, and have fun.
Benefits at Pfizer
Pfizer offers competitive compensation and benefits programs designed to meet the diverse needs of our colleagues. Our Pay for Performance Philosophy and Practices reward colleagues based on the contributions they make to our business.
Our Competitive Benefits Programs help our colleagues by:
- Promoting Health and Wellness to help colleagues maintain and improve their physical and mental wellbeing. Pfizer offerings include health and disability insurance, preventative health programs, medical screenings, free or reduced-cost vaccinations, discounts on Pfizer products, mental health support, nutrition and fitness counseling and more.
- Strengthening Colleagues’ Financial Security by providing company contributions to retirement plans, life insurance and financial planning education to help colleagues achieve their financial goals.
- Providing Benefits and Time off for the Moments that Matter to ensure Pfizer colleagues have the time away from the office to recharge, recover and return to work as the best version of themselves. Vacation, Holiday time and Sick time are just the beginning, with a 12 week parental leave policy for both parents of a new born, 10 day of caregiver leave for those times when your family needs you whether it’s a child, spouse or parent, bereavement leave, and additional country-specific programs.
- And so much more, depending on your country and site, Pfizer offers childcare facilities or discount programs, on-site health and/or fitness centers, movement and mindfulness solutions, “Log in for your Day” work flexibility and so much more.
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