Director, Global Obesity Competitive Readiness and Strategy Lead

Pfizer•New York, NY

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Competitive Readiness and Strategy Lead will serve as the primary owner of portfolio-level competitive strategy across Pfizer’s global obesity franchise. This role involves translating competitive intelligence into prioritized strategic insights for Pfizer’s obesity portfolio and, in collaboration with Commercial product lead(s), ensuring sustained long-term differentiation across the portfolio. The position is accountable for converting external competitive insights across markets into clear strategic recommendations for both pipeline portfolio development and on-market commercial positioning. As Pfizer’s obesity portfolio advances through late-stage development and early commercialization, this role is crucial for guiding cross-functional strategic decision-making within a rapidly evolving competitive landscape to achieve optimal patient and business outcomes. The role emphasizes disciplined interpretation of information to connect insights into clear implications for category strategy, portfolio choices, and asset-level implications. Operating as a highly embedded member of the Obesity Global Commercial Development team, this position requires an experienced leader who works with a high degree of independence and generates timely second and third-order insights for the business. The role involves close partnership with Competitive Intelligence (CI) to integrate intelligence gathering into business implications, requiring a “competitive business owner” mindset capable of conversing across R&D, clinical development, BD, and commercial strategy, and moving fluidly between asset-level depth and portfolio-level perspective.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in business, science, public health, or a related discipline
8+ years of experience in marketing strategy, medical, product strategy, competitive intelligence, consulting, banking, or related roles within pharmaceutical or biotech organizations
Excellent analytical and research skills, with the ability to efficiently process and synthesize large volumes of information under tight timelines
Demonstrated ability to operate as a “jack-of-all-trades,” with fluency across interpreting insights across R&D, commercial strategy, and BD
Proven ability to synthesize complex information into clear strategic implications at both asset and portfolio levels
Strong leadership skills with experience influencing strategy and decisions in matrixed, fast-moving environments
Excellent communication skills, with experience engaging senior leaders through concise, insight-driven narratives
High level of independence and prioritization skills, particularly when operating in the ambiguity of a rapidly changing market
Deep understanding of pharmaceutical development, including fluency with clinical data and trial interpretation and translation of data/label into commercial strategies
Must be willing to travel to NYCHQ
Candidates must be authorized to be employed in the U.S. by any employer
Requires permanent work authorization in the United States

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree (Ph.D., MD, MBA) highly preferred
Industry experience in obesity, cardiometabolic disease, or adjacent therapeutic areas is a plus

Responsibilities

External market competitive scanning in partnership with CI
Partner closely with Pfizer Competitive Intelligence to develop competitive insights across the global obesity landscape from a variety of sources (e.g., data readouts, press releases, investor briefings, by monitoring sources)
Partner with Pfizer CI to maintain an up-to-date database across collected insights – organized by competitor, modalities, and development stage versus commercial
Ensure a broader understanding of evolutions in the global obesity market (e.g., regulatory landscapes, reimbursement dynamics, clinical guidelines, pricing dynamics, and evolving policy trends) for the cross-functional obesity team
On a biweekly basis, synthesize high-level themes and implications (at the product and portfolio level) from emerging insights – distinguishing true signals from “noise” and prioritizing insights based on relevance
Pressure-test existing asset and portfolio strategies against evolving competitive dynamics and implications to surface key gaps and / or opportunity areas to escalate to appropriate cross-functional leads and / or broader franchise leadership
Continuously reassess strategic implications as new information becomes available
Develop concise, executive-ready materials that clearly communicate prioritized competitive insights, key questions, and strategic implications for Pfizer
Contribute to the continuous improvement of competitive intelligence processes across the franchise
Identify opportunities to improve cross-functional visibility and decision-making speed based on competitive insights and market events

Benefits

401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions
Additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution
Paid vacation
Holiday and personal days
Paid caregiver/parental leave
Paid medical leave
Health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage
Participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 20.0% of the base salary
Eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program
Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility