Senior Director, Project Team Leadership in Oncology

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Job description

ROLE SUMMARY

The Project Team Leader (PTL) is a full-time matrix team leadership position responsible for effectively leading discovery-stage portfolio project teams in Pfizer's Oncology Research and Development (ORD) unit.

The PTL will work with a broad range of stakeholders (including but not limited to project teams, peers, partner lines, and ORD leadership) to lead project teams in building and executing innovative scientific project strategies focused on the successful delivery of high quality and differentiated assets to address unmet medical needs in cancer.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Project Team Leaders (PTLs) effectively lead multiple complex matrix teams from early discovery screening (SDS) to candidate nomination (CAN) by exhibiting a high level of scientific and operational skills and emotional intelligence.
• PTLs also lead ongoing post-CAN nonclinical sub-teams that align with the broader Asset Team. A PTL will build and lead high performing teams that foster innovation, collaboration, and professional development of others and place high value upon and inspire a culture of diversity and inclusion.
• PTLs may be selected from diverse scientific backgrounds, but they must exhibit significant learning agility, build deep knowledge of disease biology, and are responsible for championing innovative scientific strategies to deliver differentiated medicines that treat cancer indications.
• A PTL leverages constructive relationships externally and across Pfizer's Worldwide Research Development Medical (WRDM) and influences the decisions of top management and senior leaders. A PTL coordinates with research, clinical, and commercial leadership teams to ensure smooth project transitions and alignment on the project objectives and deliverables.
• PTLs have a key role in communicating across lines and functions to facilitate timely and effective decision-making. They will prepare teams for project reviews and governance milestone decisions, ensuring high quality and delivering objective and comprehensive assessments of team strategy and project status. They are active contributors to the regulatory strategy for projects and may author key regulatory submission documents (IND, IB, position paper, response letters, etc.) needed to support candidate development.
• PTLs leverage their experience to not only lead internal asset programs, but also programs focused on the development of in-licensed or partnered assets. Working in collaboration with project sponsors and the alliance managers, a PTL may be responsible for managing all scientific and governance-related components of these collaborations or partnerships.
• PTLs work with teams to identify major operational and logistical risks and develops effective mitigation options. They are responsible for providing an objective sensibility to managing investment risk in individual projects by identifying key questions to ensure robust assessments and decision making, and for coordinating experimental plans across group to support the business units' case for investment for continued investment.
• PTLs actively contribute to the broader project leader community through sharing best-practices and by mentoring and coaching other project leaders, as required

QUALIFICATIONS

• PhD, or similar advanced professional scientific degree
• 15 or more years of drug discovery experience in roles of increasing leadership responsibility
• Prior knowledge and experience from early discovery through clinical development, with a substantial portion of that experience in Oncology / Immuno-oncology
• Successful demonstration of experience leading matrix drug discovery teams
• Exceptional interpersonal communications and negotiation skills are essential dimension of this role

Candidate demonstrates a breadth of diverse leadership experiences and capabilities including: the ability to influence and collaborate with peers, develop and coach others, oversee and guide the work of other colleagues to achieve meaningful outcomes and create business impact.

Other Job Details:

• Eligible for Relocation Package
• Eligible for Employee Referral Bonus
• #LI-PFE
• #LI-Remote

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