Sr. Director, Transformation Delivery
Description
Why Pfizer
A career at Pfizer offers opportunity, ownership and impact. All over the world, Pfizer colleagues work together to positively impact health for everyone, everywhere. Our colleagues have the opportunity to grow and develop a career that offers both individual and company success, contribute to an ownership culture that values diverse perspectives, and impact the health and lives of millions of people. Pfizer seeks talent inspired by our purpose: breakthroughs that change patients’ lives.
Role Summary
Lead customer-oriented transformation delivery across Global Business Services, providing execution governance, dependency management, adoption support and value realization. Maintain enduring stakeholder relationships and dedicated support for strategic initiatives, mergers and acquisitions and restructuring, while Strategic Portfolio Management provides portfolio prioritization and coordination.
What You Will Achieve
- Customer-oriented delivery with enduring stakeholder relationships
- Clear delivery accountability, governance and dependency management
- Specialist support for strategic initiatives, M&A and restructuring
- Adoption support and measurable value realization
- Seamless coordination between portfolio management and delivery
- Sustainable adoption of digital and AI-enabled solutions
How You Will Achieve It
- You will deliver Global Business Services and enterprise initiatives through a customer-oriented model that preserves enduring stakeholder relationships and clear points of accountability.
- You will provide delivery governance, dependency management, execution oversight, issue resolution and risk escalation across transformation programs.
- You will provide dedicated delivery support for acquisitions, separations, restructuring and enterprise strategic initiatives using shared methods and capabilities.
- You will support adoption, benefits realization and outcome measurement for transformation initiatives, including digital, automation and AI-enabled capabilities, while accountable business owners retain adoption and business outcomes.
- You will partner with Strategic Portfolio Management on agreed priorities, sequencing and resource decisions, providing delivery implications, adoption evidence and escalation support.
- You will lead managers and distributed teams, build sustainable delivery capability and resolve cross-tower dependencies in a matrixed environment.
Decision Rights and Role Boundaries
The role decides delivery governance, dependency management, implementation coordination, adoption support and value evidence. It recommends or co-decides delivery implications, dependencies and risks through Platform & Enablement Services portfolio and leadership alignment. It does not own demand intake and prioritization, portfolio governance, functional process decisions, platform operations or business outcomes.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Operations, Finance, Engineering, Information Systems or a related field.
- Successful candidates typically have at least 15 years of progressive experience in Global Business Services, shared services, enterprise transformation, program delivery or consulting.
- Typically at least 7 years of experience leading managers and geographically distributed teams.
- Typically at least 5 years of experience leading large programs, including mergers and acquisitions, separations or restructuring.
- Demonstrated experience in integrated program plans, controls, dependency management, adoption and benefits realization in a regulated environment.
- Demonstrated ability to drive adoption of digital and AI-enabled solutions while aligning technology delivery to business and operating-model outcomes.
Preferred Qualifications
- MBA or master’s degree in Business, Transformation or Operations.
- PMP, PgMP, Lean Six Sigma, Agile, SAFe or change-management certification.
- Pharmaceutical or life-sciences experience.
- End-to-end M&A, separation or restructuring delivery.
- Multi-region leadership across the Americas, EMEA and APAC.
Key Relationships
- Global Process Leads, functional owners and tower leaders
- Digital & Technology
- Innovation & AI Enablement
- Global Business Services governance
- Strategic Portfolio Management
- Data, Analytics & Business Insights and other Platform & Enablement Services capability owners
Capabilities and Leadership Expectations
- Customer-aligned transformation delivery
- Program governance, controls and dependency management
- M&A, restructuring and strategic initiatives
- Change leadership, adoption and benefits realization
- Digital and AI-enabled transformation
- Global people leadership and stakeholder influence
Other Job Details:
- Last day to Apply: November 6th, 2026
- Work Location Assignment: Hybrid
Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.
Candidates must be authorized to be employed in the U.S. by any employer.
U.S. work visa sponsorship (such as TN, O-1, H-1B, etc.) is not available for this role now or in the future.
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