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.