Senior Director, Targets and Mechanisms Solutions

Role Summary

The Senior Director, Targets and Mechanisms Solutions leads strategic direction, product management, and AI-driven innovation for Pfizer’s Targets and Mechanisms platforms and systems. You will oversee a global team delivering scalable, sustainable, and science-centric solutions that power research execution across Pfizer and any in-scope external partners. As a senior leader, you will drive strategic planning for your organization’s platforms and systems, integrating advanced technologies including AI, data pipelines, and predictive analytics to enhance efficiency and decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Enablement: deliver technical services including ecosystem architecture, quality, analytics, and data management to design, build, and deliver innovative, cost-effective, and sustainable solutions to identify biological targets for therapeutic modulation.
• Vision and Strategy: define and own the vision and strategy for digital Targets and Mechanisms Solutions capabilities, including AI innovation and product capability roadmaps; architect a modular digital ecosystem with interoperable data products and platform interfaces; anticipate technology trends and prioritize AI investments; collaborate to pilot and scale innovations; monitor external solutions and best practices.
• Strategic Leadership: establish a strategic product and platform operating model to drive scalable innovation; govern emerging technologies to align with objectives and compliance; design vendor frameworks for high-impact partnerships; launch and scale AI programs to embed AI into core workflows and build process mining capabilities.
• Program Delivery Leadership: oversee global program delivery, including business case development, KPIs, and financial management for complex continuous delivery; manage enterprise SaaS and custom software solutions; ensure alignment of projects with governance and audits; manage budgets and resource forecasting; maintain regulatory compliance for GxP solutions.
• Team Leadership: lead and mentor teams to foster innovation, diversity, collaboration, and continuous improvement; grow talent across Digital and Pfizer; solve highly complex problems and influence across divisions.
• Strategic Relationships: build partnerships with research leaders; align Digital & Technology strategy with evolving research needs; collaborate across cross-functional teams; represent digital R&D in enterprise planning to embed clinical priorities into roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Basic Qualifications: Education—Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline.
• Experience/Technical Skills: 12+ years of life sciences experience or equivalent in leading platforms and large-scale systems; 10+ years in a leadership role with increasing scope; proven ability to create and implement strategic plans in a large, matrixed global organization; experience delivering technology solutions in a pharmaceutical or regulated environment with enterprise software in global 24x7 environments; proven leadership and talent development capabilities; data-centric technology leadership with experience managing large-scale scientific, clinical, and operational data; proven product management leadership with accountability for strategy and execution; ability to communicate effectively with senior leadership and align day-to-day operations with business goals.
• Preferred Qualifications: Master of Science in Information Management, Computer Science, Engineering, or Technology Management; 15+ years of leadership experience; experience scaling product management discipline; experience in pharmaceutical clinical development; coding or hands-on software engineering experience; experience with omics analysis.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline
• Master of Science degree in Information Management, Computer Science, Engineering or Technology Management (Preferred)

Additional Requirements

• Limited travel expected; candidate must be capable of traveling within the region and to other regions.
• Digital is a 7x24x365 endeavor; role may require participation outside normal business hours, including weekends or holidays.