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Senior Director, Business Development and Strategic Planning

Pfizer Shanghai senior full-time

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Description

As a Senior Director in Pfizer's Business Development and Strategic Planning team, you will play a critical role in consulting engagements that drive business strategy, commercial model innovation, and expansion of our R&D footprint.

You will manage project governance, project reviews, communications, trainings, certifications, and rewards. Your innovative ideas and creative decision-making will lead the strategic direction of your division. You will leverage industry knowledge to drive strategic thinking while partnering with clients.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Leading strategic direction, including business performance and financial management for highly complex activities within a division
  • Executing high-priority strategic design projects through opportunity assessment, business valuation, and implementation planning
  • Developing and maintaining a systematic approach to consulting spend in collaboration with relevant stakeholders
  • Establishing and fostering a performance-based culture where project/portfolio delivery, execution, decision making, and process improvement are based on actionable metrics
  • Partnering with stakeholders to execute group-level meetings and develop annual Operational Performance
  • Coordinating with business leads and Global Commercial Organization teams to define sales targets
  • Collecting timely feedback on market trends and policy changes and incorporating into innovative model design
  • Coordinating with global/local functions to develop compliance standards and lead internal compliance projects
  • Building, updating practice materials, including proprietary software, templates, and guidance documents
  • Consulting with business experts and regulatory operations to drive strategies to improve processes and delivery
  • Championing a work environment that encourages innovation and strong customer relationship management
  • Ensuring an effective Talent Management process for talent identification, talent development and coaching, performance management, and succession planning

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • Master's degree
  • pharmaceutical experience
  • data visualization tools
  • clinical trial or regulatory operational processes

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