Manager, Candidate Experience
- India - Vizag
Use Your Power for Purpose
At Pfizer, we believe that every colleague plays a crucial role in improving patients' lives. Our Candidate Experience team challenges the status quo to create space for meaningful work. Your diverse perspectives and experiences will shape our workforce, making Pfizer an inclusive and amazing workplace for all. Whether you are in talent acquisition attracting the best candidates, a Generalist, or a People Experience Business Partner supporting our colleagues, or working behind the scenes, we all play a part in achieving the same goal: making Pfizer an inclusive and amazing workplace for all.
What You Will Achieve
In this role, you will:
- Lead and manage people, technology, and financial resources within the department, ensuring alignment with short-term goals.
- Actively share knowledge and identify potential improvements in processes or products, taking risks to develop innovative ideas.
- Solve moderately complex problems within the department and assist with issues outside the department, providing technical guidance and support.
- Oversee operational activities, manage multiple projects, and forecast resource requirements, often involving cross-functional representatives.
- Recognize the need for development in others, collaborate to create development plans, and manage the performance of direct reports through goal setting, coaching, and ongoing assessment.
- Solicit input, explain complex concepts, and persuade others to adopt a point of view while effectively sharing own perspectives and rationale.
- Craft and execute a recruitment strategy to attract and retain top talent, including sourcing candidates, conducting interviews, and evaluating employment factors.
- Make salary recommendations, oversee the entire recruitment cycle, and support full-life cycle recruitment needs across all business units.
- Develop and support a local Employee Value Proposition, identify talent acquisition issues, and develop corrective action plans.
- Lead senior-level hiring activities, develop creative diversity sourcing strategies, and participate in global Talent Acquisition projects to build a robust talent pipeline.
Here Is What You Need (Minimum Requirements)
- Bachelors Degree with at least 15 years of experience or MBA/MS with at least 12 years of experience or PhD or associate's degree with at least 10 years of experience.
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior business and HR leaders effectively
- Strong understanding of federal and state laws and regulations
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Substantial experience with various analytic tools
- Proven track record of implementing successful strategic sourcing strategies
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
Bonus Points If You Have (Preferred Requirements)
- Master’s degree and relevant pharmaceutical experience
- Prior experience with applicant tracking systems
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Demonstrated teamwork and strong interpersonal skills
- Effective conflict management skills
- Experience using common AI tools, including generative technologies such as ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot, to support problem solving and enhance productivity. Demonstrated curiosity for exploring how these tools can improve outcomes and understanding of responsible AI practices, including risk management and ethical use
Work Location Assignment: On Premise
Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.
To learn more about acceptable and prohibited uses of AI during the recruitment process, please review our candidate AI-use guidelines available on Pfizer Careers.
People Experience
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.
People Experience
People Experience at Pfizer centers around its most asset: its people. From candidates considering Pfizer job openings to colleagues transitioning to Pfizer alums, the People Experience team provides unwavering support throughout the entire journey.
From benefits, compensation, recruiting, and onboarding to performance, growth, health, wellness, equity, inclusion, workplace, and communication, our focus remains firmly on elevating the overall experience of our people at every step.
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)