# Director, Operations and Key Initiatives Lead

**Company**: Pfizer
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Director, Operations and Key Initiatives Lead runs studio and team operations and owns the cross-studio work that would otherwise land on makers and pillar leads.

Responsibilities:

- Own studio and team operations: operating rhythm, onboarding and offboarding, resourcing and hiring logistics, FTE and contractor administration, vendor management, tooling, and budget tracking.

- Lead studio-level initiatives that cut across pillars.

- Translate DLT / Digital requests into the smallest viable studio response.

- Own the studio’s external narrative.

- Build and run a light operating cadence.

- Line-manage the Sr. Manager, Product & Studio Operations.

- Coordinate dependencies with sibling platforms, governance, finance, and HR.

- Spot portfolio-level conflicts and surface them early.

- Model studio culture in enterprise settings.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Operations, Technology, or related field.

- Strong experience in leading operations and complex, cross-functional initiatives.

- Demonstrated judgement operating next to senior leaders.

- Excellent structured communication.

- Experience running team operations and coordinating people, vendors, budgets, and timelines.

- Comfort with ambiguity and with organisations in the middle of an operating-model change.

- Ability to lead a small operations function and still do hands-on initiative work.

Preferred Qualifications:

- MBA or equivalent.

- Chief-of-staff, studio operations, or digital programme leadership experience.

- Healthcare, pharma, or other regulated-industry experience.

- Familiarity with product organisations.

- Previous management consulting experience in a top firm.

Benefits:

- Flexible workplace culture.

- Disability Confident Employer.

- Equal Employment Opportunity.

## Skills

### Required
- operations management
- cross-functional initiatives
- communication
- team operations
- vendor management
- budget tracking

### Nice to have
- MBA
- studio operations
- digital programme leadership
- healthcare experience
- product organisations
- management consulting

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