The Product Capability Center with in Pfizer Digital s Enterprise Product Management (EPM) team drives the strategy, development, and adoption of consistent, high-quality product management capabilities across Pfizer. They enable product teams to move faster, make better decisions, and reduce friction by standardizing tools, processes, and governance reducing time to market and increasing value-realization rates.
As the Senior Manager , Product Capability Center , you will be responsible for optimizing the processes, tools, and workflows that support product development and management. This involves streamlining operations, improving cross-functional collaboration, and ensuring the product team can build and deliver products efficiently and effectively.
As a Capability Lead , you will be instrumental in influencing Product Managers and cross-functional teams to adopt established Product Management standards and practices. While these roles do not involve direct people management, they require strong leadership and influencing skills to drive change and ensure the Product Capability Centers mission is realized. This is an exciting opportunity to leverage your Product expertise to shape the future of product development within a dynamic and innovative environment at Pfizer.
Operational Excellence & Process Optimization :
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Manage, design and implement scalable workflows, automation, and tool integrations to reduce lead times and increase speed-to-value for Product teams.
Product Metrics & Portfolio Insights:
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Create product measurement playbooks and ingest Product team data (e.g., OKRs, user-analytics, KPIs) . Partner with Product Managers to ensure their understanding / adoption of these metrics.
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Build and maintain dashboards to analyze product performance, proactively mitigate risks , and generate data-driven insights that inform health of product investments and improve value-realization rates.
Product Model Adoption & Change :
Cross-Functional Collaboration and Go-to-Market Support :
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Build strong, collaborative relationships with Product Management, Engineering, Marketing, and other stakeholders, balancing multiple priorities and needs.
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Facilitate effective communication channels to ensure seamless alignment on product strategy , execution, go-to-market activities, and ongoing operations, serving as a strategic partner across Creation Centers, Enterprise Architecture (EA), Customer Experience (CX&E), and Digital Excellence Office (DXO) .
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C ontribute to the growth and development of the Product Capability Center by establishing best practices, mentoring colleagues informally, and fostering a culture of leading with the customer experience, outcomes over activity, and continuous discovery and experimentation.
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
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Bachelor s degree in a relevant field (e.g., Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics, or related quantitative discipline).
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Digital Product Development : Experience with Agile methodologies and their application in a product development context, including experience with Atlassian products ( e.g. Jira / JPD, Atlassian Analytics, Confluence)
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Outcome-based Reporting : Experience wrangling complex datasets and deriving actionable insights using tools (e.g., Tableau, Snowflake, Dataiku , or similar) for product and portfolio reports.
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Process Automation : Experience streamlining processes and automating workflows using methodologies like Lean/Six Sigma, or tools such as Power Automate , Celonis , or ServiceNow .
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Strong understanding of product- development lifecycle tools and processes, with a keen awareness of emerging technologies, data products, and Large Language Models (LLMs) and their potential application in product operations.
PREFERRED CANDIDATE PROFILE
The goal is to attract high performers who are passionate about operational excellence and digital innovation in the pharmaceutical industry. The ideal candidate should:
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Have 5+ years of experience in product operations, product management, or a related field, with a history of delivering impactful results.
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Demonstrate systems thinking, recognizing the connections between tools, teams, and outcomes, with a talent for building operational infrastructure that enables product teams to succeed.
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Be organized and detail-oriented, with a meticulous approach to managing processes, data, and documentation.
Work Location Assignment: Hybrid
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