Marketing Academy: Excellence & Strategic Partnering Lead

The Marketing Academy: Excellence and Strategic Partnering Lead is a leadership role on the Marketing Academy team responsible for two interconnected and high-impact mandates: building and sustaining strategic partnerships across Global, US, and International marketing teams, and owning the end-to-end design, delivery, and evolution of the E2E Executional Excellence (Tactical Magic) capability track.

This role sits at the intersection of marketing strategy, capability building, and organizational influence. The Senior Director acts as a trusted advisor to priority brands and markets, providing diagnostic support, tailored learning experiences, and expert guidance on the Pfizer Marketing Model. Simultaneously, they serve as the Track Lead for the Executional Excellence track, setting the north star for what good marketing judgement looks like in practice, and translating that into standards, journeys, tools, and programs that marketers can apply in their day-to-day work.

Acting as both architect and steward, this leader designs the connective thread from strategy through execution, measurement, testing, and optimization for enterprise marketers while orchestrating subject matter experts, agencies, and partners to deliver reliably at scale. The role exists to raise decision quality and marketing effectiveness through disciplined, repeatable capability building and high-value strategic engagement.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with 12+ years, or MBA/MS with 10+ years of experience in marketing and/or consulting strategy, with hands-on experience across brand, omnichannel, portfolio, or regional/global roles.
• Proven success leading capability-building, enablement, or transformation initiatives at scale.
• Strategic partnering and advisory experience across multiple regions and leadership levels in matrixed, global organizations.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong influencing, networking, and collaboration skills; credible senior presence with ability to build trusted relationships across Global, US, and International teams.
• Outstanding communication skills, able to effectively influence senior leaders, peers, and colleagues both verbally and in writing.
• Skilled at distilling complex information into actionable frameworks for decision making.
• Effective in matrix organizations, leading with indirect authority.
• Data-driven mindset; able to measure impact of capability-building initiatives.
• Strong project, time management, and organizational skills.
• AI-enabled marketing fluency; adept at embedding AI workflows to drive better judgement and efficiency.

Leadership & Values

• Role model for Pfizer Values (Courage, Excellence, Equity, Joy).
• Thrives under pressure, takes accountability, and meets deadlines.
• Diverse leadership experience: influences and collaborates with peers, develops and coaches others, guides teams to achieve meaningful outcomes and business impact

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

STRATEGIC PARTNERING

• Serve as a strategic partner and trusted advisor to priority brands and markets, providing white-glove support, diagnostics, and tailored guidance on the Pfizer Marketing Model and key marketing deliverables.

• Lead high-impact strategic engagements including strategic planning sessions, brand and market workshops, and bespoke support, (including the development of innovative AI tools and workflows to solve new or unique problems), for high-priority teams across Global, US, and International markets.

• Build and sustain relationships with senior marketing stakeholders across the enterprise, translating Academy priorities into relevant, high-value interventions for each audience.

• Act as a credible marketing expert and internal consultant — diagnosing capability gaps, identifying learning moments, and connecting teams with the right resources, tools, and expertise.

E2E EXECUTIONAL EXCELLENCE TRACK LEADERSHIP

• Own the end-to-end impact and coherence of the E2E Execution Excellence capability track, setting the north star for marketing judgement quality and translating it into practical standards, learning journeys, tools, and experiences.

• Design and steward the track as a scalable product — with defined users, value propositions, adoption lifecycle, and continuous improvement loops — rather than a one-off program.

• Coordinate the CMO roadmap for process and tools, managing agencies, SMEs, and operational delivery to ensure quality and intent do not drift over time.

• Embed AI-enabled workflows, prompts, and decision-support tools into the track, partnering with AI, data, and platform teams to align capability design with enterprise roadmaps.

• Use engagement, performance, and outcome signals to continuously refine and evolve the track, setting clear measurement approaches and translating insights into improvements.

CONTENT DEVELOPMENT & EXPERT FACILITATION

• Act as Learning Track Owner — setting the strategic approach, developing briefs, leading content creation, and overseeing the delivery of Academy programs, webinars, and Skills Labs to ensure quality and impact.

• Facilitate executive-level webinars, Skills Labs, and Academy experiences, functioning as an internal marketing expert and practitioner.

• Design attention-efficient, action-oriented learning experiences across live, asynchronous, and hands-on formats, grounded in adult learning and behavioral principles.

• Coordinate SMEs to produce reusable exemplars, hands-on support tools, and modular learning components that scale effectively across regions and roles.

GOVERNANCE, OPERATIONS & CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

• Own program governance, budget management, agency relationships, and delivery quality for the Executional Excellence track.

• Establish and maintain quality standards and QA processes across content, tools, communications, and agency outputs, preventing drift and maintaining consistency at scale.

• Drive continuous improvement through regular engagement and outcome measurement, using data-informed signals to evolve the track and strategic partnering approach over time.

KEY SKILLS

•  Capability architecture and systems thinking — designs end-to-end capability systems connecting strategy, standards, learning, tools, and governance into a coherent whole.
• Judgement, decision quality, and standards setting — translates deep understanding of marketer decision-making into practical standards, guidance, and quality bars.

• Strategic partnering and stakeholder influence — credible senior presence; builds trusted advisory relationships across Global, US, and International teams without relying on hierarchy.

• Product mindset — treats capability tracks, journeys, hubs, and tools as products with users, adoption lifecycles, and continuous improvement loops, not one-off programs.

• AI-enabled marketing fluency — strong working knowledge of AI-enabled workflows; embeds AI as an enabler of better judgement and efficiency rather than novelty.

• Operational discipline and continuous improvement — owns delivery rhythm, governance, and quality control while using engagement and outcome signals to evolve work over time.

KEY EXPERIENCES

• Substantial real-world marketing experience across brand, omnichannel, portfolio, or regional/global roles, with first-hand understanding of marketer pressures and tradeoffs.
• Proven track record designing or leading capability-building, enablement, or transformation initiatives at scale — from concept through design, delivery, and iteration.
• Experience delivering strategic partnering or advisory support across multiple regions and leadership levels in matrixed, global organizations.
• Hands-on experience with AI-enabled tools or digital platforms in a marketing context, with evidence of driving practical adoption and measurable behavior change.
• Demonstrated expert facilitation of executive-level sessions, brand/market workshops, and capability programs for senior marketing audiences.
• Experience using data and performance signals to drive continuous improvement, distinguishing meaningful insights from vanity metrics.
• Candidate demonstrates a breadth of diverse leadership experiences and capabilities including: the ability to influence and collaborate with peers, develop and coach others, oversee and guide the work of other colleagues to achieve meaningful outcomes and create business impact.

Work Location Assignment: Hybrid

Last day to apply: July 3, 2026.

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $214,900.00 to $358,100.00. In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 22.5% of the base salary and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program. We offer comprehensive and generous benefits and programs to help our colleagues lead healthy lives and to support each of life’s moments. Benefits offered include a 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, and health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage. Learn more at Pfizer Candidate Site – U.S. Benefits | (uscandidates.mypfizerbenefits.com). Pfizer compensation structures and benefit packages are aligned based on the location of hire. The United States salary range provided does not apply to Tampa, FL or any location outside of the United States. This role is posted in multiple locations. If you are applying for the role in an secondary job posting location where pay transparency regulations apply, your Talent Advisor will share the local pay information with you during the first interview.

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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