Senior Manager, Portfolio Sourcing

Role Summary

Senior Manager, Portfolio Sourcing leads internal and external stakeholder alignment to deliver Pfizer’s R&D portfolio sourcing, contract negotiation, and applicable Pfizer policies. The role focuses on minimizing business risk and maximizing R&D value, serving as a central point for business and vendor performance issues, and guiding sourcing activities for assigned program/study-level support. This position collaborates with Sourcing, Enterprise Solutions, Finance, and Legal to implement sourcing strategies, negotiate budgets, terms, and service scopes with providers.

Responsibilities

• Leads all assignments using knowledge and work experience in sourcing to achieve desired results.
• Liaises frequently with stakeholders to ensure they understand and have realistic expectations of sourcing to contract process and systems.
• Partners with stakeholders to identify and evaluate available sourcing intelligence to support decision-making relative to service/resourcing need at global and local levels.
• Manages the sourcing process as an agent of BVSM.
• In collaboration with stakeholders (study team/vendor lead/business owner), gains an in-depth understanding of needs and requirements, in order to secure appropriate level of services from vendors.
• Facilitate study-level Sourcing Strategy Meetings to ensure alignment of all internal stakeholders.
• Prepare Request for Information and initiate investigation for alternative vendor solutions, in the absence of an established sourcing strategy.
• Responsible for the preparation of Requests for Proposals and bid analyses.
• Requests competitive bids/proposals from CRO Preferred Providers and other technical service providers.
• Pressure-tests and analyzes budget proposals and provides recommendations and analysis to internal customer for decision making.
• Confirms and completes vendor selection process.
• Negotiates budgets with vendors and challenges costs when appropriate.
• Directly negotiates proposed changes to standard contract language within guidelines provided by the Legal Division; escalates requested changes outside guidelines as required.
• Participates in special projects and/or initiatives to help achieve business objectives.
• Actively supports Pfizer’s culture.

Qualifications

• Required: Applicants must have a bachelor’s degree with 7+ years of experience OR a master’s degree with 5+ years of experience OR PhD with 1+ years of experience.
• Required: Relevant work experience in drug development across various phases of drug development.
• Required: Relevant work experience in program and/or project management experience in a pharmaceutical or biotech environment.
• Required: Understanding of FDA regulations, Good Clinical Practice (GCP), and ICH guidelines; experience working in process improvement.
• Required: Ability to manage continuous change and complex projects.
• Required: Excellent communication.
• Required: Effective interpersonal skills to ensure productive collaborations.
• Required: Effective time management.
• Required: Keen insight into the drug development process.
• Preferred: MBA preferred.
• Preferred: At least 7 years of experience in drug development across various phases of drug development.
• Preferred: A minimum of 3 years of program and/or project management experience in a pharmaceutical or biotech environment.
• Preferred: Strong outsourcing and contract management experience.
• Preferred: Financial modeling experience, and past experience in cash flow optimization.

Additional Requirements

• This is a hybrid role requiring you to live within commuting distance and work on-site an average of 2.5 days per week.
• Some travel, as needed, for BVSM offsite meetings, usually 1x per year.