Sr. Director, Strategic Portfolio Management Lead

Pfizer • Tampa, FL

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

Serve as the strategic front door and portfolio-orchestration capability for Platform & Enablement Services, connecting enterprise demand to appropriate capabilities and providing integrated visibility across priorities, resources, investments, and dependencies. The role is a primary entry point for significant enterprise and Global Business Services demand, assessing strategic fit, urgency, scale, and required capabilities and translating demand into preliminary delivery and resource requirements.

Establish portfolio governance, structure, and controls; coordinate the assessment of requirements, dependencies, and sequencing across capabilities; and maintain integrated visibility of demand, committed work, roadmaps, capacity, investments, risks, and cross-portfolio dependencies. Integrate value, urgency, capacity, AI-enablement opportunities, and dependencies into recommendations about whether to proceed, sequence, defer, redirect, or further assess demand. Partner with sponsors and Finance to shape and challenge business cases, investments, and resource assumptions, and advise leaders on complex enterprise initiatives—including business development, mergers and acquisitions, and other strategic demand—before work moves into execution.

The role decides intake and assessment approaches, portfolio-governance routines, visibility standards, and coordination requirements. It recommends or co-decides portfolio priorities, sequencing, investment and capacity trade-offs, and pathways for significant demand. It does not own business outcomes, functional process decisions, solution development, or delivery execution. Accountability transitions to the appropriate delivery capability when demand is mobilized, while this role retains portfolio-level governance, visibility, and coordination.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Strategy, Operations, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Typically at least 12 years of progressive experience in enterprise portfolio management, demand management, strategic planning, or transformation governance; Global Business Services experience is ideal.
• Typically at least 7 years of experience leading enterprise portfolio strategy, demand shaping, portfolio governance, capacity planning, and investment recommendations.
• Typically at least 5 years of experience developing or challenging business cases, resource strategies, and investment recommendations for complex enterprise initiatives.
• Demonstrated executive communication, systems thinking, and ability to influence without direct ownership of delivery or business outcomes.
• Permanent work authorization in the United States; employment must be authorized by any employer.

Nice To Haves

• MBA or master’s degree in Business, Strategy, or Operations.
• PfMP, PMP, finance, or change-management certification.
• Pharmaceutical or life-sciences experience.
• Experience establishing portfolio governance in Global Business Services or shared services.
• M&A, integration, or major strategic-initiative experience.
• Experience developing capacity models used for leadership decisions.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary entry point for significant enterprise and Global Business Services demand into Platform & Enablement Services.
• Assess incoming demand for strategic fit, urgency, scale, and required capabilities, and translate it into preliminary delivery and resource requirements.
• Establish portfolio governance, structure, controls, routines, and visibility standards.
• Coordinate assessment of requirements, dependencies, and sequencing across capabilities.
• Maintain integrated visibility of demand, committed work, roadmaps, capacity, investments, risks, and cross-portfolio dependencies.
• Integrate value, urgency, capacity, AI-enablement opportunities, and dependencies into recommendations to proceed, sequence, defer, redirect, or further assess demand.
• Partner with sponsors and Finance to shape and challenge business cases, investments, and resource assumptions.
• Advise leaders on complex enterprise initiatives, including business development, mergers and acquisitions, and other strategic demand before execution.
• Recommend or co-decide portfolio priorities, sequencing, investment and capacity trade-offs, and pathways for significant demand.
• Retain portfolio-level governance, visibility, and coordination after accountability for mobilized work transitions to the appropriate delivery capability.

Benefits

• 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions and an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution.
• Paid vacation, holidays, 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.
• Comprehensive benefits and programs intended to support colleagues’ health and life events.

What This Job Offers

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