Amplify Business Owner

Pfizer • New York City, NY

17h • Hybrid

About The Position

At Pfizer, our mission is to cultivate a best-in-class culture of continuous improvement and project management, empowering colleagues and streamlining processes. Whether managing projects or driving strategic initiatives, your role in this team is crucial in simplifying and accelerating our work. This enables us to deliver breakthroughs that transform patients' lives. Your contributions make our operations more efficient and effective, driving us towards our goal of making a significant impact on healthcare. What You Will Achieve Develop and lead complex projects, creating and managing plans to achieve objectives. Manage and oversee the operational aspects of ongoing improvement projects, acting as a liaison between project teams and line management. Support programs by managing project status reviews, budgets, schedules, and preparing necessary reports. Develop mechanisms for monitoring project progress, intervening, and problem-solving with project managers, line managers, and clients. Facilitate the development, implementation, and management of business strategies, coordinating project plans with cross-functional teams to deliver on time and within budget. Execute communication plans to ensure effective and timely communication among the core team, functional management, senior management, and external partners. Promote a continuous improvement culture, streamline processes for maximum efficiency, and provide project information to support portfolio-level decision-making and prioritization. Role Overview The Amplify Business Owner reports into the GBM Performance & Execution Lead and serves as the strategic leader and primary point of accountability for the Amplify platform within PGS. This role ensures alignment between business objectives, governance priorities, and technical execution, driving adoption and value realization across the enterprise. The Business Owner partners closely with sponsors, vendors, and internal stakeholders to guide program direction, manage resources, and oversee deployment, defect and enhancement delivery and ensure compliance with Pfizer processes.

Requirements

• Applicant must have a bachelor's degree with at least 6 years of experience; OR a master's degree with at least 5 years of experience; OR a PhD with 1+ years of experience.
• Experience in enterprise business process ownership, platform administration, program management or related fields.
• Strong understanding of project and portfolio management principles and tools.
• Ability to navigate governance frameworks and partner with cross-functional teams.
• Technical proficiency in vendor managed platforms and license management processes.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to drive process alignment and improvements across global process and teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with PGS Amplify or similar PPM tools.
• Experience in managing technology deployments, vendor management, and driving adoption across diverse user groups.
• Knowledge of compliance frameworks and risk assessment processes.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Strategic & Governance Leadership Partner with the Client Partner on budgeting and SOW renewal, including TPM, RAMP, and internal reviews (Legal, Procurement).
• Advise the Business Sponsor on the Amplify strategy.
• Advise governance decisions, including prioritization and go/no-go for deployments.
• Drive alignment across PGS for Amplify PPM business processes and ensure adherence to enterprise standards.
• Align closely with the Sponsor and Vendor to guide program direction and strategic roadmap.
• Operational & Financial Stewardship Inform processes to ensure funding for resources, enhancements, and licenses are available and SOW is in place.
• Monitor cost management and ROI metrics tied to Amplify deployments and usage.
• Platform Administration & Compliance Serve as the Super Admin, owning license approvals in Request Manager and granting licenses (including bulk uploads) within Amplify.
• Oversee compliance assessments and ensure adherence to internal risk and audit requirements.
• Deployment & Adoption Enablement Support deployment execution and adoption escalations in partnership with Digital, PGS Program & Project teams.
• Collaborate on enhancement management and escalations, including assessing user impact and prioritizing fixes.
• Communication & Engagement Lead end-user communication and awareness initiatives (Community & Office Hours, Cell Team, Viva Engage).
• Act as a key liaison for stakeholder engagement, ensuring transparency and timely updates on platform changes and enhancements.

Benefits

• participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 17.5% of the base salary
• eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program
• 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions and an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution
• paid vacation, holiday and personal days
• paid caregiver/parental and medical leave
• health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees