Director, Sustainability & Regulatory Disclosures Lead

Pfizer • New York City, NY

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About The Position

Pfizer Global Supply is hiring a senior leader to own its sustainability, environmental, safety, and climate-related risk reporting and disclosure program. Reporting to the Director, PGS Enterprise Analytics, this position is accountable for the governance, processes, controls, data, methodologies, and judgment needed to assess and report Pfizer’s environmental and safety performance to internal and external stakeholders. The role includes climate-related risk and opportunity disclosures and compliance with evolving regulatory and voluntary frameworks, including CSRD, CDP, SBTi, TCFD, ESG ratings, and Net Zero commitments. It also owns the integrity, robustness, and auditability of the data and reporting processes behind these disclosures.

The role leads a team of sustainability and regulatory reporting specialists responsible for day-to-day environmental, colleague safety, and sustainability reporting. The Director sets strategic direction, ensures effective reporting processes and controls, addresses emerging requirements, and represents the function to senior leaders and external stakeholders. The position is personally accountable for the completeness, accuracy, and strategic direction of Pfizer Global Supply’s disclosures, while partnering with the adjacent GTEL Sustainability team on shared Scope 1/2 energy and greenhouse gas reporting.

The position also owns Pfizer Global Supply’s FDA drug-shortage risk reporting obligations under the CARES Act (FDCA Section 506C), including risk management plans, interruption or discontinuation notifications, and annual manufacturing-volume reporting. The Director collaborates with stakeholders across Pfizer, including the Responsible Business Growth office, Environmental Sustainability leadership, the Net Zero Core Team, Environmental and Sustainability Law, SEO Leadership, Regulatory Affairs, Quality, Manufacturing/Supply, and other subject-matter experts.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, Engineering, Environmental/Sustainability, Risk Management, or a related field and at least 8 years of EHS/Sustainability/ESG reporting experience; or a master’s degree and at least 7 years; or a Ph.D. and at least 5 years.
• EHS/BCM practitioner with broad technical and management-systems implementation experience.
• Demonstrated experience owning enterprise-level disclosures, such as CDP, SBTi, TCFD, GHG Protocol, and ESG ratings.
• Ability to serve as the accountable owner of a specialized technical domain, make independent judgment calls, and represent the function to senior stakeholders without requiring subject-matter guidance from a manager.
• Prior people-management experience leading technical or subject-matter-expert teams.
• Familiarity with emerging jurisdictional regulatory reporting frameworks, such as CSRD, and ability to build organizational readiness ahead of effective dates.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and comfort engaging GTEL, Procurement, External Supply, and senior PGS/GSC stakeholders.
• Ability to perform detailed work with limited oversight across concurrent disclosure and reporting cycles, often under time constraints.
• Ability to understand, evaluate, interpret, and explain complex technical inputs, including GHG accounting, ESG ratings methodologies, and regulatory frameworks.
• Ability to work outside standard hours to manage a global team and meet disclosure deadlines.
• Permanent U.S. work authorization; the role does not offer U.S. work visa sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

• Certification as a safety, environmental, occupational hygiene, or business continuity management professional.
• Experience building or scaling dashboarding, automation, or AI-enabled reporting capabilities.
• Experience integrating newly onboarded or matrixed team members into a cohesive team.
• Track record of leading cross-functional or virtual teams in complex, global organizations.
• Familiarity with FDA regulatory reporting obligations, such as CARES Act Section 506C drug-shortage risk management and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of sustainability and regulatory reporting specialists, assign work across disclosure and environmental data domains, and coordinate with the GTEL Sustainability team on shared Scope 1/2 energy and GHG resources.
• Own Pfizer’s environmental, health, safety, sustainability, and climate-related reporting commitments, including the Impact Report, CDP, SBTi, Net Zero, TCFD, ESG ratings, and jurisdictional and regulatory disclosures.
• Establish and oversee governance, processes, controls, and methodologies to ensure sustainability, environmental, safety, and climate-related data and disclosures are reliable, robust, and audit-ready.
• Provide direction on complex, emerging, or ambiguous reporting requirements.
• Maintain required drug-shortage risk management plans under the CARES Act (FDCA Section 506C), notify the FDA of manufacturing discontinuations or interruptions that could cause meaningful disruption, and complete annual drug manufacturing volume reporting.
• Partner with Regulatory Affairs, Quality, and Manufacturing/Supply teams to ensure timely and accurate FDA submissions.
• Monitor and respond to evolving regulatory reporting requirements, including climate-related requirements such as CSRD, and align reporting with applicable regulations, enterprise disclosure positions, and stakeholder expectations.
• Lead the environmental, safety, sustainability, and climate-related components of Pfizer’s annual Impact Report and CDP disclosure, coordinating subject-matter experts, data owners, and reviewers to develop and finalize content, data, and narrative on schedule.
• Serve as control approver for E&S KPI reporting and manage the team’s budget, including contractor and third-party assurance spending.
• Represent PGS Sustainability & Regulatory Disclosures to Procurement, External Supply, GSC Sustainability, Travel ES teams, third-party assurance providers, and ESG ratings agencies.
• Sponsor investment in dashboarding, automation, and AI-enabled reporting capabilities to scale reporting capacity as requirements grow.
• Operate with autonomy and independent judgment on complex technical inputs and emerging or ambiguous requirements, and communicate direction across regions, cultures, and time zones.
• Travel an estimated 10–30%, potentially to global destinations and center locations.
• Work outside standard hours, including early mornings or evenings, to support a geographically distributed team and externally driven disclosure deadlines.

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.
• Eligibility for 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.

What This Job Offers

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