# Commercial Excellence & Innovation Portfolio & Operations Lead

**Company**: Pfizer
**Location**: Shanghai
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Commercial Excellence & Innovation Portfolio & Operations Lead provides China CEI leadership with an enterprise-level view of strategic priorities, portfolio choices, delivery progress and business outcomes across AI, innovation, technology, data and commercial excellence.

The role translates CEI strategy into a prioritized portfolio roadmap, runs CEI and AIT governance, and leads selected cross-functional programs from strategy through implementation and adoption.

**Key Accountabilities:**

- Translate CEI strategy into a prioritized portfolio roadmap with clear ownership, sequencing and decision points aligned with China and International priorities.

- Operate CEI and AIT portfolio governance, including intake, prioritization, funding gates, Portfolio Council cadence and scale-or-stop tracking.

- Drive CEI resource optimization across budget, capacity, controllable spend, procurement and vendor resources to maximize delivery value and efficiency.

- Integrate value, adoption, delivery and operational performance into one CEI-level executive view.

- Coordinate priorities and execution across CEI functions, China stakeholders, International AIT and Global Digital / CIO.

- Run the CEI PMO , integrated tracking, SteerCo materials, dependency management and a reliable reporting cadence.

- Lead and develop the portfolio and operations team and strengthen governance, planning and delivery discipline across CEI.

- Coordinate portfolio-level AI and data governance for CEI initiatives, ensuring responsible-AI, data governance and compliance requirements are embedded through appropriate review forums and partner functions.

- Lead selected high-priority cross-functional programs from planning through implementation and adoption, managing critical milestones, decisions, risks and dependencies.

**Required Capabilities & Competencies:**

- Portfolio, program and PMO leadership , governance, investment and funding-gate management, executive reporting, and cross-functional delivery with milestone, risk, dependency and operating-model management.

- Ability to define portfolio performance metrics and translate portfolio data into actionable executive insights.

- Budget, capacity, procurement and vendor management with strong financial discipline.

- Strong stakeholder and enterprise change management across business, product, technology, data, AI and governance groups in a matrixed local-and-global environment.

- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Technology, Finance or a closely related discipline; an advanced technical or business degree is preferred.

- Experience in a highly regulated industry and the China commercial, technology and vendor environment is preferred.

- Experience in commercial excellence, sales operations or business planning within the pharmaceutical industry is an advantage.

**Leadership Expectations:**

- Enterprise orchestration: connects strategic priorities, resources, delivery progress and outcomes into a coherent CEI operating view.

- Execution discipline: converts strategy into governed roadmaps, funding decisions, measurable benefits and reliable delivery.

- Outcome and value focus: uses portfolio insights to guide prioritization, decisions and value realization.

- Financial and operational rigor: manages budget, capacity, spend and vendor performance with control and transparency.

**Key Collaboration:** The role reports to the China CEI Head and partners closely with the AI Transformation Office (AITO) and Digital & Technology (D&T) leads, and with Go-to-Market Transformation (GTMx), Global Commercial Analytics (GCA) and the Pfizer Innovation Center (PIC).

**Measures of Success:**

- One integrated CEI portfolio view with clear intake, prioritization, funding gates and scale or stop decisions.

- Priority cross-functional programs delivered against milestones, with risks and dependencies actively managed.

- Budgets, capacity and controllable spend optimized across CEI and broader China resources.

- Integrated value, adoption, delivery and operational performance reporting that informs executive decisions.

- Effective Portfolio Council and SteerCo operations and aligned priorities across China and International.

## Skills

### Required
- portfolio management
- program management
- PMO leadership
- governance
- investment management
- financial discipline
- stakeholder management
- enterprise change management

### Nice to have
- commercial excellence
- sales operations
- business planning
- pharmaceutical industry experience
- China commercial experience

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