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 external partners, driving strategic planning and integrating AI, data pipelines, and predictive analytics to enhance efficiency and decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Enablement: deliver 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, focus on AI innovation, and develop product capability roadmaps; architect an interoperable digital ecosystem; anticipate technology trends and prioritize AI investments.
• Strategic Leadership: establish a strategic product and platform operating model; govern emerging technologies; design and lead vendor frameworks; launch and scale AI programs to embed AI into core workflows.
• Program Delivery Leadership: oversee global program delivery, manage business cases and KPIs, deliver enterprise SaaS and custom software solutions, manage financials, and ensure GxP compliance and inspection readiness.
• Team Leadership: lead with a culture of continuous improvement, mentor and develop team members, foster learning and talent growth across Digital and Pfizer, solve highly complex problems, and influence beyond own area.
• Strategic Relationships: build partnerships with research leaders, align Digital & Technology strategy with evolving research needs, foster cross-functional collaboration, and embed clinical priorities into technology roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline.
• Experience/Technical Skills: 12+ years life sciences experience or equivalent leading platforms and large-scale systems; 10+ years in a leadership role; proven ability to create and implement high-impact strategic plans in a large, global organization; experience delivering technology solutions in pharmaceutical or regulated environments; strong leadership, mentoring, and talent development capabilities; data-centric, innovative technology leadership with experience managing large-scale scientific, clinical, and operational data; proven product management leadership with strategy, execution, and cross-functional alignment; ability to operate autonomously in a matrix environment; strong communication and stakeholder influence skills.
• Preferred: 15+ years of experience with advanced degree; experience building and scaling product management discipline; experience specifically 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).

Skills

• Strategic thinking and vision for digital research platforms
• Enterprise-scale systems, AI-enabled solutions, data pipelines, analytics
• Leadership of global, cross-functional teams
• Product management and program delivery in regulated environments
• Stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration

Additional Requirements

• Limited travel; capable of traveling within the region and to other regions as needed.
• Digital/IT operations may require participation outside normal business hours.
• On-premise work location.