# Strategic Direction and Front End of Pfizer International Investment System

**Company**: Pfizer
**Location**: Walton Oaks
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Own the strategic direction and front end of the Pfizer International investment system: co-develop how markets move towards the AI-native commercial model, convert that direction into the investment thesis, and determine what enters the funnel and reaches the Investment Committee.

**Key Accountabilities:**

- Co-develop market-level AI-native roadmaps with country presidents, cluster presidents, therapeutic area leaders and other senior market stakeholders.

- Own and continuously evolve the investment thesis for International Commercial Digital & AI.

- Convert the strategy into an active opportunity agenda.

- Own intake and triage across market-referred, open internal submission and externally generated opportunities, and maintain one portfolio backlog.

- Produce the investment memo for every proposal that reaches the Committee.

- Write the recommendation, counterfactual and open questions on every memo.

- Run the Committee governance.

- Maintain institutional memory in a system rather than in individuals.

- Identify patterns across markets, functions, submissions and decisions, and convert them into changes in strategic direction, portfolio priorities or commissioned opportunities.

- Own end-to-end programme and project management for strategy development and the investment process.

**Decision Rights:**

- Determines the investment thesis, strategic fit criteria, intake priorities and where the organisation should actively seek or commission opportunities.

- Declines proposals at screen stage without reference to the Committee.

- Determines what reaches the Committee agenda and when, and sets and enforces the memo, evidence and intake standards.

**Required Experience and Capabilities:**

- Extensive relevant experience in commercial strategy, portfolio strategy, corporate strategy, investment governance, venture capital, business development or a related field.

- Exceptional pattern recognition across markets, cases and functions.

- Credible in senior leadership conversations.

- Ability to understand different go-to-market models, market archetypes and healthcare systems.

- Strong commercial and strategic judgement.

- Outcome-oriented rather than tool-oriented.

- Able to hold a position in front of the Committee.

- Highly structured in strategy development, governance and documentation.

**Benefits:**

- Flexibility and work-life harmony

- Equal Employment Opportunity

- Disability Confident Employer

**Closing Deadline:** November 10th

## Skills

### Required
- commercial strategy
- portfolio strategy
- investment governance
- venture capital
- business development
- AI

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