Job description
Pfizer's Worldwide Medical and Safety colleagues play a key role in connecting evidence based medical decision support with colleagues and stakeholders to enable better health and treatment outcomes. Whether you are creating framework necessary to ensure our evidence is scientifically sound, providing unbiased, medically necessary expertise or investigating how to close gaps in data, our mission is simple. Empower healthcare decisions regarding the safe and appropriate use of medicines for patients.
What You Will Achieve
In your role, you will be working with a cross-functional team on key programs in support of clinical research, medical, pharmacovigilance, regulatory and quality. You will provide strong technical expertise and program leadership required for the development and implementation of global training and educational projects. This role will involve instructional design and program management, as well as working with senior stakeholders to establish strategy for training and educational programs.
As a Senior Manager, your advanced knowledge of the principles and concepts in the discipline and comprehensive knowledge of other disciplines will enable you to lead complex projects across the division. Your experience in project management will be used while reviewing status of projects and budgets, managing schedules and preparing status reports, developing resolutions to meet productivity, quality and client-satisfaction goals. Your ability to develop and manage plans will facilitate in achieving objectives, interpreting internal and external business challenges and recommending best practices for improvements. While managing complex project environments, you will be able to anticipate and troubleshoot roadblocks and influence teams to achieve targets for the division.
It is your dedication that will make it possible for customers and patients to receive the medicines they need, when they need them.
How You Will Achieve It
- Develop ideas and leads complex projects across Sub Business Unit.
- Develop and manage plans to achieve team objective.
- Provide technical, instructional design and operational management for programs and be accountable for meeting project commitments.
- Manage deliverables according to endorsed plans and timelines across multi-functional teams including course design, development and deployment. Partner with associated business line and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to proactively identify training needs and development and deployment of training programs.
- Develop processes, as needed and monitor activities related to compliance oversight of training programs; ensure programs and projects are evaluated for effectiveness and customer satisfaction and that feedback is utilized as part of the continuous improvement process.
- Development of metrics and performance measures, reporting and analysis to meet business needs and regulatory requirements; budget management; develop and manage budget for training projects.
- Ensure compliance to training and education regulatory requirements and consistent implementation of best practices, standards, and training globally to support inspection readiness.
- Interface with Pfizer learning groups to coordinate and utilize existing educational resources, programs and infrastructure to meet requirements.
- Develop and manage budget for training projects.
- Mentor colleagues or peers and serve as a role model.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree (BA/BS) and strong years of experience.
- Ability to implement large-scale change in complex, matrix organizations.
- Experience in LMS administration and processing.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat, SharePoint development and maintenance, course development products (Articulate, Storyline) and survey tools.
Nice-to-Have
- Master’s (MA/MS/MBA) degree and strong years of experience.
- Doctorate degree (PhD/PharmD/JD) and moderate years of experience.
- Demonstrated ability to influence and negotiate effectively.
- Demonstrated knowledge of adult learning principles, instructional design as well as project management expertise required.
- Advanced business knowledge of Clinical Research & Development, Pharmacovigilance and/or Regulatory in the pharmaceutical industry.
Eligible for Employee Referral Bonus: YES