Vice President, Commercial AI Transformation & Delivery

Pfizer • New York, NY

1d • $274,000 - $456,600 • Onsite

About The Position

As Vice President, Commercial AI Transformation & Delivery, you own the vision, strategy, and delivery of artificial intelligence across Pfizer's U.S. commercial organization. You lead a portfolio of AI and data initiatives spanning sales, marketing, and medical, and you are accountable for turning Pfizer's AI ambition into capabilities that are delivered, adopted, and creating value across the business. Reporting to the Head of Commercial AI, you lead a multi-disciplinary organization of senior directors, directors, program leaders, and delivery teams, together with a managed network of vendors and delivery partners. While business ownership for individual initiatives sits with their respective business sponsors, you are accountable for end-to-end delivery, technical integrity, talent, and the coherence of the overall portfolio. Your scope spans the U.S. commercial organization and the shared platforms, data, and standards these initiatives build on. Why This Role Matters Pfizer's purpose — breakthroughs that change patients' lives — has always depended on the company's willingness to transform how it works, not only what it discovers. Across its history, Pfizer has led large-scale change in how medicines are developed and brought to the patients and clinicians who need them. Becoming the most AI-forward company, and reinventing how we work from end to end, is the next chapter in that story. This role is central to that ambition for the commercial organization. It brings strategy, technology, and teams together so that AI is applied with rigor and at scale — improving how Pfizer serves patients, customers, and colleagues, and strengthening Pfizer's leadership in the industry. The work is as much about people and ways of working as it is about technology, and this role leads both. Candidate Profile This is a senior business and delivery leadership role. It calls for executive leadership, genuine technical credibility, and subject-matter depth in AI. Strong candidates bring three capabilities together rather than excelling in one alone: AI-native. You have led the development and delivery of production AI — including modern generative and agentic AI — and you reason fluently about how it creates value, where it falls short, and how to deploy it responsibly. You set technical direction and standards through credibility, not by being the hands-on builder. Enterprise transformation. You have led significant transformation inside large, complex, regulated organizations — reshaping operating models and ways of working, not only delivering technology. You know how to move an organization, not just a roadmap. Building from the ground up. You have established new capabilities, products, or teams from the ground up and scaled them to real adoption in enterprise settings — comfortable with ambiguity and able to create momentum without waiting for perfect conditions.

Requirements

• 15+ years of progressive leadership in technology, data and AI, digital, or product delivery, including senior leadership of large, multi-disciplinary organizations.
• Significant experience in the pharmaceutical, life sciences, or healthcare industry, including an understanding of the commercial environment (sales, marketing, and/or medical) and its regulatory context.
• Proven track record leading complex, enterprise-scale technology or AI programs from strategy through production and adoption, with measurable business impact.
• Experience leading teams that build and operate production AI/ML and data products — with the credibility to set technical direction and standards without needing to be the hands-on engineer.
• Demonstrated success leading large-scale transformation and change in a complex, matrixed enterprise — reshaping operating models and ways of working, not technology alone.
• Track record of establishing new capabilities, products, or businesses from the ground up and scaling them.
• Experience building, leading, and developing senior teams, including other people-leaders, and attracting top technical and product talent.
• Experience owning significant budgets and managing large vendor and partner portfolios.
• Ability to influence and partner with the most senior executives, and to translate complex technology into clear business terms.
• Bachelors Degree Required.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree in a technical, quantitative, or business discipline, or equivalent experience strongly preferred.
• Deep subject-matter expertise in AI/ML and generative and agentic AI, and how they create value in a commercial setting.
• Direct experience in, or close partnership with, pharmaceutical or healthcare commercial functions.
• Familiarity with enterprise data, platform, and AI governance considerations at scale.
• Recognized leadership presence, internally and externally, on applied AI and transformation.
• Experience operating in a global organization across multiple regions and markets.

Responsibilities

• Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for applying AI across the commercial organization. Translate enterprise ambition into a prioritized portfolio of initiatives with clear business value and a credible path to delivery.
• Lead delivery of the portfolio from concept through production and adoption. Set priorities, sequence work, resolve dependencies, and make the trade-off calls on scope, investment, and pace.
• Build and lead a multi-disciplinary organization of senior directors, directors, program leaders, engineers, data scientists, and product leaders. Attract, develop, and retain top talent, and lead other people-leaders.
• Build and direct a network of vendors, contractors, and delivery partners. Define the work, set the standard, manage performance and spend, and keep critical capability and intellectual property within Pfizer.
• Ensure initiatives build on shared platforms, data, and engineering standards. Drive reuse and consistency, and prevent duplication and fragmentation across the portfolio.
• Operate as a trusted partner to senior business and functional leaders. Articulate the vision, influence at the most senior levels, and provide consultative guidance, education, and direction across the organization.
• Lead the shift to AI-enabled ways of working. Partner with business leaders and PX on capability building, new roles, and leadership development for an AI-enabled organization.
• Ensure work is delivered responsibly and in line with Pfizer's legal, regulatory, compliance, privacy, and quality requirements. Embed appropriate governance, controls, and accountability into delivery.
• Track relevant technology, vendor, and industry developments, and apply them to prioritize and evolve Pfizer's approach. Distinguish durable, valuable capability from hype.

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
• health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage
• Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.

What This Job Offers

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