Sr Manager, Strategic Solutions Lead

Posted:
10/11/2024, 2:36:46 PM

Location(s):
England, United Kingdom ⋅ Sandwich, England, United Kingdom ⋅ Cambridge, England, United Kingdom ⋅ Reigate and Banstead, England, United Kingdom

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Business & Strategy

Why Patients Need You

Technology impacts everything we do. Pfizer’s digital and ‘data first’ strategy focuses on implementing impactful and innovative technology solutions across all functions from research to manufacturing. Whether you are digitizing drug discovery and development, identifying solutions, or making our work easier and faster, you will be making a difference to countless lives.

What You Will Achieve

Your technical and business skills will help Pfizer support and elevate the functioning of business information processing systems. Your knowledge of e-commerce tools, computer systems, business processes and workflows will make you a critical member of the team. Your strong communication skills will facilitate requirement gathering for building and enhancing business process maps and systems. Your business process and technical knowledge will help us develop new systems and modify existing business applications, such as inventory control, financial tracking, marketing and human resource system.

As a Senior Manager, your advanced knowledge of the principles and concepts in the discipline and comprehensive knowledge of other disciplines will enable you to lead complex projects across the division. Your ability to develop and manage plans will facilitate in achieving objectives, interpreting internal and external business challenges and recommending best practices for improvements. While managing complex project environments, you will be able to anticipate and troubleshoot roadblocks and influence teams to achieve targets for the division.

It is your dedication and focus that will help in making Pfizer ready to achieve new milestones and help patients across the globe.

How You Will Achieve It

  • Develop ideas, lead projects across sub division, and develop and manage plans to achieve objective.
  • Apply operational and technical skills and knowledge to assist support and services in the areas of business analysis, support, services, user acceptance testing, information quality, accuracy and business process efficiencies.
  • Lead continuous improvement projects to simplify and improve system use and system management, including opportunities for data automation and system integrations.
  • Partner with the project manager to assess the impact of changes in requirements on the project scope and timelines.
  • Utilize specific techniques to elicit requirements from stakeholders, analyze and validate the resulting requirements, and secure agreement on the requirements across stakeholders.

Qualifications

Must-Have

  • Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree (B.S. or B.A.) with higher academic qualification/degree preferred and/or equivalent relevant professional experience within Pharma or CRO.
  • At least 7 years of experience in the Pharma industry with a preferred focus on drug development processes and operations
  • At least 7 years of experience using process analysis principles, concepts and theories across medium and large initiatives
  • Outstanding communications skills, both oral and written, capable of building process flow diagrams and effectively summarize abstract concepts clearly and concisely
  • Ability to work independently on most assignments, some self-initiated, using knowledge, experience, and expertise to achieve desired results
  • Ability to lead change initiatives in a fast-paced, high energy environment and comfort with operating in situations with ambiguity and “white space”
  • Robust understanding of the biopharmaceutical industry, clinical trial conduct, regulatory, safety and GXP
  • Strong verbal, written communication and presentation skills

Nice-to-Have

  • Master's degree
  • At least 4 years strategy or operational consulting experience
  • Relevant pharmaceutical industry experience
  • Experience working with applications in Marketing, Medical, Clinical, Pricing/Market Access or real world data
  • Hands on Service Delivery, Program Delivery and Operations experience desirable

  
Work Location Assignment: On premise with relocation support available

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 Confident

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and we encourage you to put your best self forward with the knowledge and trust that we will make any reasonable adjustments necessary to support your application and future career. Our mission is unleashing the power of our people, especially those with unique superpowers. Your journey with Pfizer starts here!

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