Why Patients Need You

Technology impacts everything we do. Pfizer’s digital and ‘data first’ strategy focuses on implementing impactful and innovative technology solutions across all functions from research to manufacturing. Whether you are digitizing drug discovery and development, identifying solutions, or making our work easier and faster, you will be making a difference to countless lives.

Role Summary

All over the world, Pfizer colleagues are working together to positively impact health for everyone, everywhere. Each position at Pfizer touches and contributes to the success of our business and our world. That’s why, as one of the global leaders in the biopharmaceutical industry, Pfizer is committed to seeking out inspired new talent who share our core values and mission of making the world a healthier place.

The Enterprise Data Solutions and Engineering (EDSE), a Pfizer Digital organization, is responsible for the development and management of all data and analytics tools and platforms across the enterprise – from global research and development, to manufacturing, to commercial, to patient care across over 100+ countries. One of the team’s top priorities is the advancement of AI/ML enabled analytics and the creation of data solutions that can be leveraged across the enterprise.

As a member of EDSE’s Global Business Services & Enabling Functions Data Solutions & Engineering team, you will help to realize Pfizer Digital strategy on the cloud by designing and deploying analytical data platforms, lead high performing teams, and building lasting relationships with our business colleagues. This digital program will produce the data foundation that drives business insights through data science and enterprise BI reporting solutions. This role requires you to lead the solution development and operations support of our HR & Corporate Functions Domains (Human Resources, Learning & Development, Legal, Corporate Affairs, and Compliance). It will require you to design, architect, build and enhance high-visibility data and analytics solutions to support our HR & Corporate Functions Business teams, Business Leaders, and People Managers at Pfizer while leveraging our strategic cloud based infrastructure such as Unified Data Hub, Snowflake, IICS and data visualization products (Tableau) and boutique SaaS People Analytics solutions such as Visier. You will utilize your data analytics and domain experience in the Human Resources field to create innovative data and analytics products that will help our Human Resources team achieve their mission – Unleash the power of our people.

You will be expected to develop and maintain a deep understanding of the Human Resources and Corporate Functions domains you support, especially the analytical needs and opportunities of the Human Resources organization.

You will build and foster relationships so as to be able to work independently and closely with your Digital colleagues as well as key senior level business partners. You will prepare, lead, and facilitate BI/data management discovery workshops, assemble, synthesize and document key learning’s, be innovative in your solution concept design and be able to develop and communicate a HR & People Analytics strategic roadmap, which will set the direction for the core solution offerings of Digital Health Medicines and AI as well as the capabilities of Pfizer. You will represent this strategy throughout the solution development life cycle and continue to manage it and keep it relevant to the changing business and technical environments.

Generally, the colleague will also have the responsibility to assist in the architect, design, and building of data models, data pipelines, and data products across various domains to power ML ops platforms, data-driven applications, and software and enable business intelligence solutions. This role will work with the business unit and digital leadership to understand the growing business needs and strategies where the application of AI and ML can yield new products and services and enhance existing processes.

You will also embody Pfizer’s OWNIT! Culture values. We seize opportunities to think differently, to take risks and be accountable, and to try something new. This means Pfizer values change-oriented behavior, exemplified through an entrepreneurial, confident, and proactive attitude. Pfizer also values tolerance for taking thoughtful risks to achieve greater success. We advocate and drive long-term, aligned strategies that advance our mission and shape our industry. We confront corrosive, self-serving, and mean-spirited behaviors; it's everyone's responsibility. We deliver on commitments with speed, decisiveness, and integrity. We invest in candid and constructive debate to ensure each other's success using straight talk.

Role Responsibilities

Reporting to the Director – HR Solution Engineering within Pfizer’s Digital Health, Medicines, and Artificial Intelligence organization, your major duties and responsibilities are defined below:

Engagement Management

• Work with clients, client partners, and other stakeholders to develop business justifications, scope of deliverables, RFPs, and explorations of solution options.
• Perform business and functional analysis activities (e.g., documenting functional and non-functional requirements) for projects as required
• Establish and maintain client relationships. At all times, know your client base and their business needs.
• Manages and sets stakeholder expectations
• Ensures that all customer expectations have been met through the delivery of services or projects
• Provides a single point of contact and accountability forthe client
• Secures appropriate resources for projects, engaging with the business, and facilitating service delivery
• Shapes thinking on how technology solutions support the goals of the business
• Articulates Digital services and ensures services meet client needs and value expectations, while educating Digital on client needs
• Aligns Digital services with the current and future needs of the business and its customers while improving the quality of services delivered
• Analyzing business problems and key issues and developing strategic business analytic implementation plans (‘road maps’).
• Work to drive clarity around people, processes, and data and how they work together to support business needs and challenges.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, influencing, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Drive best practices and capabilities across business units

Technology Management

• Provide technical product stewardship for the HR & Corporate Functions People data & analytics platforms. This will require:
  • Serving as a main technical point of contact / SME for L3/L4 inquiries for incidents
  • Lead enhancement initiates whether large or small from ideation to deployment and beyond.
  • Ensure that the platform is stable, data quality is appropriate and that all compliance and best practices are followed during enhancements
• Defining and driving new EDSE capabilities across Pfizer business units. This will require:
  • Partnering with other Digital organizations to align EDSE strategy with broader Digital Strategies and ensure consistent use
  • Actively monitor & evaluate other company BI & data usage and bring best practices to Pfizer where applicable.
  • Actively monitor & evaluate emerging BI & data management technologies and introduce/present potential benefits to Pfizer.

Project Management/Program Management

• End-to-end accountability for project success for projects driven out of EDSE in support of these functions.
• On-time, on-budget, on-quality project delivery; client satisfaction on a project-to-project basis; user satisfaction and effective leadership of teams through influence and expert knowledge of the subject matter.
• Compliance with Solution Center and other Digital processes and financial procedures is required
• Assembles and engages project teams
• Project oversight and status reporting
• Maintain all project plans and manage all project activities against these plans in accordance with Project Management best practices and Solutions Delivery/Digital procedures
• Identify, manage, and bring to resolution all project risks/ issues. Escalate major project risks to scope, budget, or timeline to appropriate escalation points in a timely manner
• Effectively lead and facilitate meetings with clients, vendors, and stakeholders, and conduct productive technology project team status/review meetings
• Ensure the smooth transition of production solutions to support and maintenance structures within Digital.
• Review projects when complete against the business case to ensure projected benefits are being realized
• Ensure all projects are delivered with a minimum of business disruption

Qualifications

Education and Experience

Basic Qualifications:

• Required Education: Bachelors.
• Preferred Discipline(s): Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Technology Management, Business Management
• Experience in the Human Resources field with a specific focuson People data and People Data Engineering, Human Resources Reporting, and Workforce Analytics are required.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills are required
• 7+ years of management experience leading project teams and technology delivery functions are required
• Demonstrated experience in scoping, defining, and managing projects including determining project viability, developing rigorous project estimates, developing, and establishing a project plan, and budget, defining technology solutions, developing RFPs, evaluating vendor responses, negotiating SOWs, and identifying resource requirements is required.
• Demonstrated project management and solution delivery experience in owning and managing a significant organizational or project budget ($500K to $2MM annually)
• Demonstrated effective collaboration with teams across an organization to drive processes and operations Knowledge of cloud-based architectures (AWS or Google), cloud analytics products/solutions, and agile methodologies (SCRUM) to enable rapid cycles of development and release of analytics and data products/solutions is required.
• Experienced with deploying enterprise-level solutions on data preparation and ETL platforms (i.e. Informatica IICS, Informatica Power Center, SnowPipes, Talend, Alteryx, Python, Unix shell scripts, etc.) is required.
• 5+ years of experience in Data warehousing, data architecture, data modeling, and data transformation is required.
• Good understanding of deploying and supporting cloud-based data warehouse solutions (Snowflake, Redshift, Spark, Databricks, etc) is required.
• Knowledge of deploying BI visualization tools such as Tableau or Spotfire, is required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Preferred: Masters, MBA

• People Analytics experience using SaaS tools such as Visier, One Model, Perceptyx, Workday Prism Analytics, Workday People Analytics, SAP Success Factors Workforce Analytics is a big plus. Familiarity with cloud/SaaS based Human Capital Management (HCM) systems such as Workday is a big plus.

• Experience with Software and data engineering best practices, including but not limited to version control (Git, TFS, Subversion, etc.), CI/CD (Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, etc.), automated unit testing, Dev Ops is highly beneficial.

• Familiarity with the EU Global Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) and other related international regulations is nice to have. Prior experience with data architecture designs and data engineering development related to the GDPR and data privacy guiding principles such as data minimization, right to be forgotten, etc is beneficial to have.

• Experience with Global HR data integration and prior experience with Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures is a plus.

• Experience using agile delivery methodologies such as SAFe is highly beneficial but not required.

• Full stack development using infrastructure cloud services focused on data engineering and big data analytics (AWS preferred) and cloud-native tools and design patterns (Containers, Serverless, Docker, etc) is a plus and Open-Source data technologies are highly beneficial but not required.

• Relevant related areas such as data quality, master data management, metadata management, collaboration, and business process managementare beneficial.

• Experience with sourcing and modeling data from application APIs is beneficial.

• Experience with data mesh architectures, data virtualization technologies, and real-time data processing architecture and engineering is a plus.

• Cloud computing, machine learning, sentiment analytics, text analysis, NLP & Web development experience is a plus

Work Location Assignment: Flexible

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Purpose 

Breakthroughs that change patients' lives... At Pfizer we are a patient centric company, guided by our four values: courage, joy, equity and excellence. Our breakthrough culture lends itself to our dedication to transforming millions of lives.  

Digital Transformation Strategy

One bold way we are achieving our purpose is through our company wide digital transformation strategy. We are leading the way in adopting new data, modelling and automated solutions to further digitize and accelerate drug discovery and development with the aim of enhancing health outcomes and the patient experience.

Flexibility  

We aim to create a trusting, flexible workplace culture which encourages employees to achieve work life harmony, attracts talent and enables everyone to be their best working self. Let’s start the conversation!  

Equal Employment Opportunity 

We believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce is crucial to building a successful business. As an employer, Pfizer is committed to celebrating this, in all its forms – allowing for us to be as diverse as the patients and communities we serve. Together, we continue to build a culture that encourages, supports and empowers our employees.

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