Director, Marketing Academy, Professional Leadership Skills & Excellence

Pfizer • New York City, PA

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Marketing Academy is Pfizer’s capability-building ecosystem, strengthening marketing excellence through applied learning, curated programs, and shared standards to help marketers improve performance and patient impact. The Director sets the global agenda for the Marketer Capability “Modern Marketing Leadership & Decision Excellence” (Capability 7) and owns its strategy, standards, frameworks, and priority learning solutions. The Marketer Capability Framework guides the seven capabilities, associated skills, and AI-enabled ways of working marketers need throughout their careers, aligning development, career growth, and curriculum investment with business and patient impact.

The Director identifies and prioritizes capability gaps using survey data, stakeholder insight, and external evidence, then develops strategies and execution plans for all career levels. The role delivers through track leads, Learning Design & Delivery colleagues, measurement partners, markets, and external vendors. Reporting to the Capabilities & Strategic Platforms Lead, the position has global scope and is hybrid. Domestic and international travel is approximately 20%.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of relevant experience; or MBA/MS and 7+ years; or PhD/PharmD and 5+ years across progressively responsible commercial, marketing, capability-building, learning, or organizational-development roles.
• Ability to integrate quantitative data, qualitative insight, and external evidence; identify meaningful signals; and translate findings into priorities and evidence-based recommendations for senior stakeholders.
• Experience designing leadership or management capability programs across workshops, learning journeys, or cohorts, with evidence of behavior change.
• Executive presence and facilitation skills, including the ability to advise and challenge senior marketing and commercial leaders, defend evidence-based recommendations, and adapt based on new evidence or context.
• Experience shaping or leading cross-functional commercial or marketing strategy, with understanding of brand planning, decision-making, organizational trade-offs, and capabilities that improve business performance.
• Experience partnering across functions such as Marketing, Sales, Medical, Analytics, and Digital to align perspectives and translate business needs into capability solutions.
• A clear point of view on how human judgment, accountability, and AI output interact in marketing work.
• Ability to influence without authority, build commitment across a global matrix, guide colleagues and partners, and coach others toward business and capability outcomes.
• Experience defining and measuring capability gain in real work, not only participation or satisfaction.
• Permanent U.S. work authorization; U.S. work visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in pharma, life sciences, or another regulated industry.
• Experience designing programs for international or multi-market audiences.
• Experience selecting and managing external leadership-development partners.
• Experience coaching or advising senior leaders.
• Fluency in AI’s role in marketing, leadership, and learning design.
• Experience leading or co-leading a complex, enterprise-scale commercial, capability, or organizational initiative involving cross-functional readiness, stakeholder alignment, and coordinated execution across teams or markets.
• A breadth of diverse leadership experiences and capabilities, including influencing and collaborating with peers, developing and coaching others, and guiding colleagues’ work toward meaningful outcomes and business impact.

Responsibilities

• Set an annual leadership and decision-excellence agenda by analyzing capability surveys, focus groups, stakeholder input, and external practice; prioritize gaps and secure senior stakeholder sponsorship.
• Build and maintain a vetted network of external partners with relevant marketing and leadership-development expertise.
• Define and maintain Capability 7 frameworks, including decision quality, commercial judgment, and how marketers evaluate, challenge, and apply or override AI-generated work.
• Partner with track leads for Capabilities 1–6 to embed Capability 7 frameworks, content, application activities, delivery roles, and assessment approaches into their curricula.
• Contribute leadership, decision-quality, commercial-judgment, and AI-related perspectives to Academy-wide curriculum standards; apply frameworks consistently and consolidate duplicate or competing assets.
• Set the leadership standard for senior-leader programs, including Leading with a Business Ownership Mindset (LBOM), while its orchestration and delivery remain with Learning Design & Delivery.
• Shape learning solutions around a learn-apply-lead model for early-career, mid-stage, and senior cohorts; lead or co-design workshops, webinars, and learning journeys.
• Develop learning solutions in areas such as critical thinking, data storytelling, executive communication, cross-functional orchestration, coaching, and decision-making in AI-enabled workflows.
• Embed AI fluency and responsible AI application across Capability 7 curricula and learning solutions, and modularize content into reusable assets for track leads and markets.
• Maintain external benchmarking and translate relevant modern marketing and leadership-development practices into Academy curricula and learning solutions.
• Facilitate commercial leadership sessions, flagship workshops, and webinars; co-deliver with track leads and adapt capability content to country-team context and maturity.
• Define success measures for programs, learning journeys, and Capability 7 integration, including participation, engagement, application, learner feedback, and stakeholder evidence.
• Partner with measurement, track, and business teams to assess behavior change and decision quality through work outputs, manager validation, and other agreed evidence.
• Use capability data and behavior-change evidence to recommend improvements and future investment; report capability gains to the Capabilities & Strategic Platforms Lead and Marketing Academy Leadership Team.
• Contribute methods to the Academy’s wider capability-evidence approach.

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 and/or eligibility.
• Comprehensive benefits and programs to support colleagues’ health and life needs.

What This Job Offers

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