Global Launch Lifecycle Strategy Leader, Sr Director

Pfizer • New York City, NY

6d

About The Position

The Global Supply Chain Launch Strategy Team Leader defines the strategy, standards, and end-to-end process architecture used by Global Supply Chain (GSC) to plan and execute new product launches. As a shared central service, the role designs the launch operating model, playbooks, governance routines, and decision frameworks that regional and functional teams use to execute launches consistently and efficiently. The role provides strategic direction and is accountable for launch execution, partnering across GSC and stakeholder organizations to deliver measurable, repeatable launch performance.

The role partners with the GTEL/Global Packaging and Launch Operations team on Wave 1 market launches and leads launch strategy and process execution for Wave 2 and later country launches. As new product launch (NPL) activities are centralized, the role consolidates process standardization, reporting, and NPL PMO functions previously handled independently by regional NPL leads and RSLs into a single global supply chain enterprise capability. The role provides central oversight of NPL systems setup and serves as the enterprise subject-matter expert for NPL LIQ.

The leader maintains a portfolio-level view of launch performance, risks, and process effectiveness; improves launch processes through standard work, digitization, and AI/automation; and represents GSC launch strategy and process design in senior governance forums. The function establishes ownership and partner-interface standards while enabling execution teams without taking on their day-to-day execution responsibilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and at least 12 years of experience; or master's degree and at least 10 years of experience; or PhD and at least 7 years of experience.
• Significant experience in strategy development, business process design, or operating-model design within global supply chain, launch management, or product lifecycle contexts.
• Strong knowledge of end-to-end pharmaceutical supply chain and launch processes, with the ability to translate operational complexity into scalable, standardized frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience designing and running a shared or central service or center-of-excellence model, including governance design and clear decision rights.
• Strong strategic planning, business process design, portfolio-level analysis, and executive communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and enable execution teams without direct authority over day-to-day launch delivery.
• Working fluency with digital and AI-enabled supply chain technologies, including predictive and prescriptive analytics, generative AI and agentic workflow tools, robotic process automation, control-tower and end-to-end visibility platforms, and ERP systems such as SAP; ability to translate emerging capabilities into practical, digitized process design.
• Data and systems fluency, including comfort with launch performance dashboards, master data architecture, and process and system dependency mapping to co-design future-state, technology-enabled processes with Digital, Data, and IT partners.
• Adaptive leadership and ability to lead through ambiguity and continuous change, anticipate emerging technology and market shifts, and evolve operating models and team capabilities ahead of business needs.
• Change leadership and digital capability-building skills to drive adoption of tools, automation, and new ways of working across a global, matrixed organization, including structured upskilling and digital-literacy programs.
• Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States by any employer; U.S. work visa sponsorship is not available now or in the future.
• The position requires permanent work authorization in the United States.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building communities of practice and driving adoption of standard methodologies across global, regional, and local stakeholders.
• Advanced degree or equivalent experience in supply chain, business, engineering, life sciences, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Define and continuously evolve the launch strategy, multi-year roadmap, and future-state vision for how GSC plans and executes new product launches.
• Design, own, and maintain the GSC launch operating model, standard process architecture, governance framework, and decision rights as a shared central service.
• Translate the NexGen NPL vision into standardized playbooks, methodologies, tools, and measurable outcomes that launch execution teams can adopt.
• Embed lifecycle strategy into new product launch planning, accounting for long-term supply, demand evolution, market expansion, lifecycle events, and transition pathways beyond Wave 1 launches.
• Partner with PPLs, BSLs, Commercial, Regulatory, and Supply Planning to connect launch readiness with lifecycle scenarios, including additional indications, new presentations, geographic waves, volume inflection points, loss-of-exclusivity considerations, and supply network evolution.
• Create common lifecycle planning assumptions and decision frameworks to help launch teams balance speed to market, service levels, inventory strategy, complexity, cost, and long-term product resilience.
• Partner with Commercial, Regulatory, Launch Operations, GTEL, PPLs, BSLs, GSP, Global Logistics, Market Supply Hub, Global Master Data, Digital, and regional and market teams to align strategy, embed standard processes, and resolve systemic cross-functional constraints.
• Lead planning and process execution for Wave 2 and later country launches.
• Set NPL priorities for Wave 2 and later markets between Commercial and PGS, standardize NPL processes for GSC, and consolidate activities formerly performed independently by regional NPL leads and RSLs into one enterprise approach.
• Serve as the enterprise subject-matter expert for NPL LIQ and provide central oversight of NPL systems setup, replacing duplicated market-level administration.
• Act as the central NPL PMO lead and escalation point, including for NPL priority appeals between Commercial and PGS and alignment of launch supply and inventory strategies with Commercial.
• Maintain a strategic, portfolio-level view of launch performance, risk trends, and process effectiveness, identifying opportunities for process redesign across new molecules, market expansions, line extensions, and re-commercializations.
• Lead continuous improvement of the launch process, including standard work, digitization, and AI and automation integration.
• Establish documented ownership models and partner-interface standards that clarify accountability and reduce overlap, handoff friction, and escalations without taking on execution responsibilities.
• Represent GSC launch strategy and process design in senior governance forums, communicating shared-service health, systemic risks, and the case for future process and strategy investment.

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.
• Eligible to participate in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan, with a bonus target of 22.5% of base salary.
• Eligible to participate in a 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: Senior