Director - Analytics Strategy and Innovation

Pfizer • New York City, NY

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Pfizer is seeking a transformation lead to direct high-visibility strategic initiatives across Global Commercial Analytics (GCA) and the Chief Marketing Office (CMO). The role typically owns one or two complex initiatives at a time, from business case development and planning through delivery, deployment, and adoption. Working alongside product owners, the Director owns program execution, business translation, and adoption planning, while product owners manage products and their backlogs.

The Director partners with GCA and CMO leaders, brand teams, Integrated Insights & Strategy, Data Science, Data Engineering, Analytic Excellence, and external platform and vendor partners. The role connects business priorities to executable programs, aligns initiatives with the broader portfolio, and communicates progress, risks, trade-offs, and recommendations to executive sponsors. Success depends on delivery, effective cross-functional leadership, sound judgment in ambiguity, and translating between commercial, analytics, and technology teams.

This is a hybrid position with an annual base salary range of $176,600 to $294,300 in the United States, excluding Tampa, Florida and locations outside the United States. The role is eligible for Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a 20% bonus target and a share-based long-term incentive program. Relocation support may be available based on business needs or eligibility. Candidates must have permanent U.S. work authorization; visa sponsorship is not available.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 8 years of experience; or a master’s degree and at least 7 years of experience; or a PhD and at least 5 years of experience.
• Relevant experience with demonstrated career progression leading programs or initiatives in commercial analytics, analytics or AI transformation, or related settings.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives end to end, with accountability for planning, issue resolution, executive communication, and delivery outcomes.
• Experience developing business cases and roadmaps, prioritizing using KPI/OKR methodology, and managing trade-offs across a portfolio of projects.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams through significant change in a dynamic, results-driven environment.
• Ability to work with business, analytics, data science, and technology teams and translate between them.
• Ability to influence without authority, with written, verbal, and presentation skills effective across organizational levels.
• Ability to filter and distill relevant information for the right audience.
• Strong ownership, customer service, collaboration, and integrity.
• Ability to manage conflicting ideas, create an environment where all voices are heard, and make difficult decisions.
• Ability to work outside one’s area of expertise, perform business discovery, simplify problems, and propose solutions.
• Healthcare or life sciences industry experience and understanding of commercial processes.
• Leadership experience, including developing and coaching others and guiding colleagues’ work to achieve business impact.

Nice To Haves

• Experience delivering analytics or AI capabilities into a commercial organization from strategy through implementation and adoption, including platform integration, migration, or deployment.
• Project leader or engagement manager experience in management consulting, ideally serving pharmaceutical or life sciences clients, or equivalent experience in an internal strategy and transformation function with implementation and transformation experience.
• Experience working alongside product owners or delivery teams with shared accountability for outcomes.
• Experience managing vendor- or partner-delivered programs, including consulting, managed services, or data and technology partners.
• Experience in market research or insights transformation, including AI-enabled primary market research.
• Familiarity with pharmaceutical commercial analytics capabilities such as forecasting, market research, customer analytics, and performance measurement.
• Program management or Agile training such as PMP, PRINCE2, PMI-ACP, CSM, or SAFe.
• A breadth of diverse leadership experiences and capabilities, including influencing and collaborating with peers, developing and coaching others, and guiding colleagues’ work to achieve meaningful outcomes and business impact.

Responsibilities

• Lead one to two complex, cross-functional strategic initiatives at a time, from business case and problem definition through execution, deployment, and adoption.
• Develop and own business cases by defining problems, quantifying opportunities, framing options, and recommending approaches that balance impact, cost, resources, timeline, likelihood of success, and risk.
• Build and own integrated program plans, translating objectives into milestones, deliverables, decision points, and accountabilities across matrixed teams and external partners.
• Partner with product owners on scope, sequencing, and release planning, bringing data and planning expertise to prioritization trade-offs.
• Translate between commercial leaders, analytics and data science teams, and technology and platform partners so requirements, constraints, and decisions are understood.
• Identify and resolve risks, dependencies, and delivery challenges, and escalate decisions to leadership when necessary.
• Lead executive communications, including roadmaps, business cases, progress updates, trade-offs, recommendations, and periodic reviews with executive sponsors.
• Drive the development and implementation of initiative OKRs consistent with GCA and CMO priorities, and track outcomes after deployment.
• Create and execute change management and adoption plans from pilot through deployment, in partnership with change management and training resources.
• Manage business-critical workload, delivery, and performance metrics across the ASI portfolio, and build analytic products to track them.
• Support the ASI Lead on group strategy and strategic assessments as needed.
• Identify opportunities and waste, propose solutions, and promote innovation and constructive challenges to the status quo.
• Bring foresight and judgment to complex decisions and clarify ambiguous situations for cross-functional teams.
• Lead regular communications with teammates, partners, and leadership.
• Stay current on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in commercial analytics, AI, program management, and product management, and recommend improvements.

Benefits

• 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.
• Medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage.
• Participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 20% of base salary.
• Eligibility to participate in Pfizer’s share-based long-term incentive program.
• Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs or eligibility.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director