Director, Early Talent & Recruitment Marketing
About The Position
The Director, Candidate Experience role, part of Pfizer’s People Experience division, plays a critical role in shaping and enhancing the experiences of candidates at Pfizer. This role is pivotal in driving our recruitment strategies and ensuring that Pfizer continues to bring in the best and brightest minds in the industry. The Director will be instrumental in creating an inclusive and engaging candidate experience, thus reinforcing Pfizer's reputation as an employer of choice. Position Summary This role is responsible for Pfizer's enterprise early talent strategy in the US and employer branding globally. This role manages a team that supports Undergraduate, Rotational and MBA hiring in North America, and strategy, technology platform uses and program delivery supporting Pfizer’s equity initiatives across all teams. You will work closely with Divisional Early Talent Leads to attract, engage and develop early career talent across the US organization and share best practices globally to ensure consistent experience and approach. Additionally, there are many smaller programs globally that are isolated and not necessarily connected to the global Early Talent Strategy. The ultimate vision for this role is to develop a global approach to early talent opportunities and programs that can then be tailored to specific local market or business needs. This role will also define and evolve Employee Value Proposition and work in close partnership with Pfizer Brand team to ensure consistent employer brand messaging across multiple regions, channels, candidate touchpoints, and recruitment platforms.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required and 8+ years in talent acquisition, early talent/campus recruiting, employer branding, or recruitment marketing, including experience in a large, matrixed enterprise.
- Successful track record of developing, running or scaling a large-scale internship or early talent program.
- Experience managing employer brand and recruitment marketing campaigns, including digital/paid channels; familiarity with SEO and emerging GEO/AI-search practices strongly preferred.
- People leadership experience, including managing managers or senior individual contributors.
- Experience coordinating across a matrixed or divisional structure to drive consistency without direct authority over all stakeholders.
- Candidates must be authorized to be employed in the U.S. by any employer.
- This position requires permanent work authorization in the United States.
Nice To Haves
- Advanced degree in HR, Marketing, Business, or related field a plus.
- Strategic thinker who can also operate at execution level — comfortable owning both the roadmap and the details of a campus event or a campaign brief.
- Strong stakeholder management; able to align Divisional and Enterprise priorities without creating friction.
- Comfortable making decisions off funnel metrics, campaign analytics, and program KPIs
- Excellent written and verbal communication; able to represent the brand externally and translate strategy for senior leadership.
- Familiarity with modern recruitment marketing and search technology (ATS, CRM, programmatic ad platforms, GEO/SEO tools).
Responsibilities
- Oversee the design, implementation, and operational excellence of enterprise and divisional early talent programs—including internships, co-ops, and rotational opportunities.
- In partnership with Divisional Early talent leads build effective partnerships with universities, colleges, and other educational institutions.
- Represent Pfizer at career fairs, university events, and early-talent industry forums as Pfizer's representative when it matters.
- Develop and monitor program metrics, regularly assessing and refining processes to boost effectiveness and improve outcomes.
- Collaborate with leaders across business functions to align early talent programs with workforce needs.
- Drive branding and outreach initiatives to promote the organization as an employer of choice for early talent.
- Inspire and lead a team, manage program budgets and resources with excellence and accountability.
- Own the employer brand and ensure best candidate experience across all candidate touchpoints: careers site, job postings, social, campus materials, etc.
- Run recruitment marketing campaigns from first impression through application, for both early talent and experienced-hire audiences.
- Own GEO (how Pfizer's employer content shows up in AI-driven search) alongside the more familiar SEO/SEM work on the careers site and job listings.
- Manage the agencies, media vendors, and platforms behind this — job boards, programmatic ad buys, social.
- Work with Pfizer Brand so recruitment brand content stays consistent with the broader Pfizer voice.
- Watch the funnel numbers and adjust spend, targeting, and creative with focus on ROI and pipeline impact.
- Build out the content — employee stories, culture content, EVP messaging — that makes Pfizer stand out to the talent segments that matter most.
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
- health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage
- Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
