Brand Portfolio Leader (Secondment - 12 Months)

WHY PATIENTS NEED YOU

Our manufacturing logistics and supply team makes sure that customers and patients have the medicines they need when they need them. You’ll help bring medicines to the world even faster by embracing challenges, imagining what’s possible and taking action.

WHAT YOU WILL ACHIEVE

The Brand Portfolio Leader (BPL) manages the value chain design process for a defined portfolio of products, leveraging cross functional/multi-site/matrixed teams and resources. You will optimize the portfolio with strategic transformation based on product and market specific requirements, including future life cycle changes, to maximize the value of the portfolio to Pfizer.

Working with a dynamic team of Logistics and Supply Chain experts, you will play a critical role in developing and implementing mid-to long-term supply chain strategies and networks through a range of activities. Some of the activities include addressing capacity and production location decisions in support of business growth. Your breadth of experience will be leveraged for increasing effectiveness of supply chain initiatives and portfolio management, through monitoring key performance indicators and coordinating cross-functional working teams.

As a Senior Director, your advanced knowledge of the principles and concepts in the discipline and comprehensive knowledge of other disciplines will enable you to lead complex projects across the division. Your ability to develop and manage plans will facilitate achieving objectives, interpreting internal and external business challenges and recommending best practices for improvements. While managing complex project environments, you will be able to anticipate and troubleshoot roadblocks and influence teams to achieve targets for the division.

HOW YOU WILL ACHIEVE IT

• Develop strategies and support implementation of global commercial plans and business cases, to increase revenues, maximize profit margins and ensure delivery of the PGS fundamental value proposition.

• Support global cross-portfolio projects, partnering with PGS and PBG colleagues to develop and implement processes to reduce complexity, increase business continuity, enhance competitiveness, and improve overall revenue and margin associated with the portfolio.

• Provide leadership in directing required product-focused activities and resources required to create, implement, improve, and maintain the optimal global product portfolio supply/value chain strategy and design, in alignment with commercial needs and opportunities.

• Capture customer requirements including cost, service, and agility tradeoff; develop design solutions and manage supply/ value chain improvement opportunities within product/ portfolio.

• Collaborate with PGS Business Development to ensure strategies including out licensing and technology transfer are incorporated into country portfolio strategic plans.

• Provide support to PGS Supply Chain Market Leaders in the development, implementation, and improvement of supply chain strategies.

• Accountable to ensure product portfolio objectives, critical tradeoffs between cost, service and agility objectives, and business plan milestones are achieved while increasing operational excellence maximizing efficiency.

• Maintain and own the project inventory and prioritization list to drive key financial, operations, and risk mitigation opportunities.

• Support the continuous improvement of processes which optimize the way in which the portfolio is managed, and product strategies are developed and executed.

• Ensure high quality unit demand plans for assigned products and alignment with commercial business strategies.

• Incorporate Network Change into Operating Plan.

• Assist and drive market transformation initiatives to further develop and raise the maturity of supply chain planning and logistics delivery capabilities.

• Enhance stakeholder engagement and communicate across functional units with related stakeholders.

• Act as a thought leader to identify opportunities for improvement and diagnose root causes of supply planning, scheduling inefficiencies etc.

• Identify opportunities for inventory reductions.

• Identify and escalate supply issues to relevant teams and manage resolution.

• Provide guidance and support on how to model supply chain business scenarios and related planning strategies in the planning systems.

QUALIFICATIONS

Must-Have

• Applicant must have a bachelor's degree with at least 12+ years of experience; OR a master's degree with at least 10+ years of experience; OR a PhD with 7+ years of experience; OR a MD with 5+ years of experience.

• Demonstrated ability to manage large scale strategic projects.

• Demonstrated understanding of the pharmaceutical industry, particularly plant operations, planning and scheduling.

• Significant supply chain/manufacturing experience at various levels with knowledge of supply chain concepts.

• General understanding of various industry standard operating procedures and policies.

• Ability to work with a lot of variables and data, and synthesize to drive management decision making.

• Strong communication, interpersonal and organizational skills.
  

Nice-to-Have

• Relevant pharmaceutical experience.

• Procurement and Project Management experience.

OTHER JOB DETAIL

• Last Date to Apply for Job: October 28, 2026
• Additional Location Information: USA - Any Pfizer Site, PA - Collegeville
• Eligible for Relocation Package – NO
• Secondment 12 months
• If you are currently in a driving position with a fleet vehicle and this secondment does not require driving as an essential function of the position for 12 months or longer, you will be required to turn in your fleet vehicle for the duration of the non-driving secondment.  Please refer to the Fleet Policy and Procedures document for more information.
• There will be no change to your current work location.
• Position is considered Flexible, and colleagues are expected to comply with Log In For Your Day (LIFYD) requirements at site location (e.g. about 2.5 days a week in office).
• Note: This secondment offers a valuable opportunity for professional growth. It will need to be funded by the secondee’s home market.

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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