Director – Early Commercial

Responsibilities

• This role is an individual contributor within the Vaccines Early Commercial Business
• The Director, Early Commercial, is the Commercial lead for Pfizer's pre-clinical EBV program responsible for leading the commercial strategy and progressing the emerging asset through governance stage-gates, endorsements, and prioritization decisions.
• Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to, comprehensively articulating the market opportunity and generating insights required to drive strategy, guide development decisions and inform long-range forecasting
• Oversee market research plan to generate key insights and fill in knowledge gaps to directly shape product concepts, potential target product profile(s) and related clinical strategy
• Support the annual strategic and operating plan process, and manage associated Commercial budget
• Lead development of commercial opportunity scenarios and related assessments, including market-sizing, competitive scenarios, price, market share, etc.
• Continuously monitor the competitive landscape and highlight points of differentiation and Commercial implications
• Build trusted working partnerships across Research & Development, Medical Affairs, Global Access Strategy & Pricing, Business Analytics & Insights, Competitive Intelligence, Business Development, and US and International Commercial teams

Requirements

• Applicant must have a bachelor's degree with at least 8 years of experience; OR a master's degree with at least 7 years of experience; OR a PhD with 5+ years of experience
• Experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences or strategic consulting (e.g., Commercial Development, Marketing, strategic consulting, analytics, forecasting)
• Ability to understand complex scientific and clinical data and translate implications for differentiation, commercial opportunity and asset value
• Proven leadership and demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional collaboration, challenge the status quo and manage stakeholders
• Strong strategic skills including ability to identify key issues early and address major challenges (e.g., emerging competition, shifting landscape)
• Adept at synthesizing complex scientific, clinical, market, access, and competitive information into clear insights, perspectives, recommendations and action plans
• Excellent interpersonal skills, verbal communication and presentation skills
• Ability to lead projects with no clear precedent roadmap and prioritize efforts across the team and the organization.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality work in a matrixed environment.
• Demonstrated ability to make decisions with limited information and propose alternative scenarios or mitigation strategies
• Comfort working in an AI-native or AI-augmented environment