Associate Director, Program Manager - Vaccines Development

Why Patients Need You

Pfizer's purpose is to deliver breakthroughs that change patients' lives. Research and Development is at the heart of fulfilling Pfizer's purpose as we work to translate advanced science and technologies into the therapies and vaccines that matter most. Whether you are in the discovery sciences, ensuring drug safety and efficacy or supporting clinical trials, you will apply cutting edge design and process development capabilities to accelerate and bring the best-in-class medicines to patients around the world.

Pfizer's Vaccine Research and Development organization has been at the forefront of making history and improving human health - including creating some of the most complex and most sophisticated vaccines in the world, designed to tackle a wide range of infectious diseases of large unmet medical needs in people of all ages.

What You Will Achieve

As Associate Director, Program Manager - Vaccines Development, you will be supporting the Program Director in providing overall project management for Vaccine Research and Development (VRD) program teams in the development of new vaccines from Research through product registration to ensure alignment of strategic and operational objectives.

How You Will Achieve It

Program Strategy:

• Collaborates with Program Leader(s) and Program Director to develop program plan that encompasses the overall strategy for the development of the vaccine in all indications ensuring alignment among the overall strategic, operational and line plans.

Program Planning:

• Applies technical, team and line knowledge along with comprehensive scheduling knowledge to contribute to the achievement of work team deliverables.
• Translates team's strategic objectives into operational plans; provides insight into operational feasibility of proposed strategies.
• Drives cross-functional and cross-geographic alignment with strategic plans and goals.
• Identifies and flags internal or external risks/impacts to strategies and plans; leads sub-teams in characterizing the impacts and revises plans, as appropriate.
• Monitors progress of project activities towards next project milestone, anticipates and highlights potential variances, supports line/team in critical path analyses and understanding the impact, and partners with the Program Director and the program team to identify/recommend solutions to schedule risk.
• Ensures development plans/timelines for all indications in a program are in place and kept current, as well as up to date in Pfizer systems (Planisware, Snapshot, Glue).
• Ensures operational plans align with and support strategic plans.
• Ensures that cost, time and quality parameters are clearly outlined in the plans.
• Drives creation of development plans, ensuring discrete deliverables are well characterized with associated timing, resources, quality parameters, interdependencies across lines, and risk and mitigation plans in collaboration with Program Director.
• Ensures plans are realistic in terms of time and resources required.
• Supports the process for evaluation, optimization and planning of alternative operational options.
• Performs scenario planning of project timelines to ensure efficient delivery of project milestones.
• Ensures cross-functionalteam commitment to the plans.
• Supports negotiations in the allocation of line resources to support the endorsed development plan.
• Partners with Program Director to develop the VRD budget for the vaccine development plans, in partnership with the program team and VRD Operations.
• Drives and co-leads BLA/MAA/EUA submissions sub-team.

Program Execution and Delivery:

• Supports delivery of development plans in alignment with the program team strategies.
• Partners with key team members (Clinical, Vaccine Research, BioTx Pharmaceutical Sciences, Regulatory, DSRD, Commercial Development, Clinical Operations, etc.) to manage the program to achieve key milestones within time, cost and quality parameters.
• Helps drive and monitor the delivery of the plans, anticipating and managing issues that arise and bringing forward options for resolution.
• Contributes to risk management through the identification of operational and project/program risks for discussion with appropriate team leadership.
• Proposed solutions or options to de-risk projects may require developing new options to resolve moderately complex issues.
• Supports Program Director to work with program teams in operational risk/opportunity and mitigation identification and ensures that such activities are conducted regularly.
• Documents risk plan and communicates to all stakeholders.
• Facilitates and supports program team, extended team and sub-team functioning.
• Coordinates and publishes agendas, minutes, and general program team meeting support.
• Manages meetings and communications of program team and cross-functional sub-teams, as appropriate.
• Participates in team goal setting and monitors progress on team goals.
• Knows how to obtain informationfor the team on company, BioTxPS and VRD processes related to program planning.
• Understands governance requirements and facilitates program team interactions with governance, as appropriate.
• Monitors team performance, identifies issues and partners with Program Leader(s) and/or Program Directorto recommend and develop appropriate action.
• Drives and co-leads BLA/MAA/EUA submissions sub-team.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

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.

• Bachelor'sDegree(BA/BS)and 7+ years of experience in project management discipline and its application to vaccine development.
• Experience with relevant project management tools (i.e., Microsoft Project, Planisware) and effective team management skills
• Proficiency in the use of word processing, Excel, Word,Outlook and PowerPoint.
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills.

Preferred

• Master'sdegree(MA/MS/MBA)and6+ years ofexperience.
• Doctorate(PhD/PharmD/JD)and 2+ years ofexperience.
• PMP or similar Project Management Certifications.
• Knowledge of clinical operations, protocolsand site budgets.

Work Location Assignment :Hybrid onsite in Pearl River, NY

Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.

Pfizer requires all U.S. new hires to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 prior to the first date of employment. As required by applicable law, Pfizer will consider requests for Reasonable Accommodations.

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EEO & Employment Eligibility

Pfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status. Pfizer also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA. Pfizer is an E-Verify employer.

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