Senior Manager, Colleague Services Global Restructuring Strategy (7 months fixed term)
- Greece-Thessaloniki Chortiatis
Role Summary
The Sr. Manager CS Global Restructuring Strategy is a strategic role accountable for orchestrating the end-to-end execution of restructuring activities globally. This position serves as the central integration point for Colleague Services (CS) between People Experience (PX), Finance, Total Rewards, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Business Leaders, and Global Restructuring Program leadership. The role ensures accurate delivery of severance cost modelling, secure handling of highly sensitive workforce data, and seamless alignment between business decisions and downstream operational impacts.
This role operates in an environment of high confidentiality, complexity, and rapid change. In addition, it requires exceptional judgment, analytical capability, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders globally.
This role will promote Pfizer’s Purpose, Values and the GBS culture, engaging with a global team of qualified and diverse CS colleagues at all levels.
Reporting to: Director Colleague Services Governance and Process Management Lead
Role Responsibilities
Leadership, Coordination and Operational Excellence
Serve as the primary point of contact for all Global Restructuring initiatives, ensuring alignment across CS, PX, Total Rewards, Benefits, Business Units, and enterprise program leadership.
Coordinate cross functional workflows, timelines, and deliverables across multiple restructuring workstreams globally.
Partner on behalf of CS with M&A, PX, Finance, and strategy teams to prepare scenario models and provide cost and risk analysis to support leadership decision‑making.
Oversee severance calculations, benefits analysis, and cost modelling for global restructuring, ensuring data accuracy and providing strategic workforce insights.
Implement secure, compliant processes for handling confidential workforce data, while ensuring full compliance with data privacy, labour laws, Works Council mandates, and internal governance standards across all markets.
Enhance and standardize CS processes to support global restructuring, drive operational improvements in data and communication, and facilitate transformation and integration initiatives.
Effectively manage evolving business scenarios by delivering prompt impact assessments, collaborating with key stakeholders to ensure decisions meet policy and operational standards, and resolving escalations to minimize restructuring risks.
Stakeholder Management
Effectively manage evolving business scenarios by delivering prompt impact assessments, collaborating with key stakeholders to ensure decisions meet policy and operational standards, and resolving escalations to minimise restructuring risks.
Facilitate discussions with the Sr. Director E2E Restructuring Lead, regional leaders, and functional SMEs to support program execution.
Represent CS in cross‑functional restructuring forums and governance routines.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Business, or related field.
7+ years of experience in a Global Business Services environment / Payroll leadership / Employee Data Management / Total Rewards process execution leadership
Effectively manage evolving business scenarios by delivering prompt impact assessments, collaborating with key stakeholders to ensure decisions meet policy and operational standards, and resolving escalations to minimise restructuring risks.
Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem‑solving capability.
Ability to operate with the strictest confidentiality and handle privileged information.
Proven ability to succeed in fast‑paced, ambiguous, and high‑pressure environments.
Candidate demonstrates a breadth of diverse leadership experiences and capabilities including: the ability to influence and collaborate with peers, develop and coach others, oversee and guide the work of other colleagues to achieve meaningful outcomes and create business impact.
Effectively manage evolving business scenarios by delivering prompt impact assessments, collaborating with key stakeholders to ensure decisions meet policy and operational standards, and resolving escalations to minimise restructuring risks.
Preferred Qualifications
Master’s degree in Business, Finance, HR, or related field.
Experience with Workday or other HR Information Systems
Understanding of collective labour agreements/labour laws
Demonstrated experience supporting M&A workforce activities or global restructuring programs.
Experience in data modelling, analytics, and scenario planning.
Work Location Assignment: Hybrid
Please apply by sending your CV and a motivational letter in English
Purpose
Breakthroughs that change patients' lives... At Pfizer we are a patient centric company, guided by our four values: courage, joy, equity and excellence. Our breakthrough culture lends itself to our dedication to transforming millions of lives.
Digital Transformation Strategy
One bold way we are achieving our purpose is through our company wide digital transformation strategy. We are leading the way in adopting new data, modelling and automated solutions to further digitize and accelerate drug discovery and development with the aim of enhancing health outcomes and the patient experience.
Flexibility
We aim to create a trusting, flexible workplace culture which encourages employees to achieve work life harmony, attracts talent and enables everyone to be their best working self. Let’s start the conversation!
Equal Employment Opportunity
We believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce is crucial to building a successful business. As an employer, Pfizer is committed to celebrating this, in all its forms – allowing for us to be as diverse as the patients and communities we serve. Together, we continue to build a culture that encourages, supports and empowers our employees.
Disability Inclusion
Our mission is unleashing the power of all our people and we are proud to be a disability inclusive employer, ensuring equal employment opportunities for all candidates. We encourage you to put your best self forward with the knowledge and trust that we will make any reasonable adjustments to support your application and future career. Your journey with Pfizer starts here!
Breakthroughs 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.
Finance
At Pfizer, our dynamic financial experts are more than number-crunchers; they shape our path to greatness. From strategic direction to fiscal well-being, Finance ensures our enterprise thrives with unwavering commitment and meticulous attention to detail.
From seamless payroll management to mastery of tax compliance, we fortify the foundations upon which Pfizer's vision is built. Together, we empower transformative choices, driving Pfizer's legacy to uncharted heights by harmonizing data-driven insights and creative intuition.
Welcome to the vital core of Pfizer's future, where Finance unlocks limitless potential
Global Business Services
Global Business Services is a transformation powerhouse, turning fragmented, complex, and intricate operational services into a seamlessly centralized, simplified, and standardized system.
With our unrivaled expertise, strategic capabilities, and unwavering commitment to Pfizer's purpose, we pave the way for groundbreaking breakthroughs that make a real, tangible difference in patients' lives.
Join us on this exhilarating journey of impact and innovation as we revolutionize healthcare together.
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.
For U.S. based jobs, view an overview of Pfizer’s U.S. benefits program (opens in a new window)