Senior Director – R&D, Capital Strategy Lead
Pfizer
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • California • Illinois • United States
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Salary
💰 $230,900 - $384,800 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Establish and continuously refresh the Strategic Master Plan for R&D workplaces
- Set the enterprise‑level vision, standards, and governance for workplace operations, services, and infrastructure across a multi‑site, multi‑regulatory environment (GxP/GMP and non‑GxP)
- Serve as an executive advisor to senior R&D and enterprise leadership on workplace strategy, capacity, risk, and investment trade‑offs
- Lead enterprise crisis management, business resilience planning, and incident response for R&D workplaces
- Ensure uninterrupted, compliant, and resilient operations of critical R&D infrastructure supporting discovery through development and clinical manufacturing
- Own and deliver financial performance across OPEX and CAPEX portfolios
- Build and maintain trusted partnerships with senior stakeholders across R&D, GWS, PX, Finance, Digital, EHS, Security, and Compliance
- Provide executive oversight of a broad portfolio of workplace services
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science or relevant technical field
- 12+ years relevant work experience
- 3 years of direct facilities operations, capital management, and project execution preferably in pharmaceutical labs or manufacturing industries
- Experience successfully navigating a large organization and managing multiple stakeholder interests on global, complex projects or operations
- Strong business acumen and professionalism with the ability to interact effectively with colleagues in all functional areas, including Senior Leadership
- Excellent oral, written and overall communication skills
- Outstanding project management and organizational skills
- Ability to influence and motivate others without express authority
- Demonstrates highly developed team leadership skills and the ability to manage internal / external resources to achieve project objectives
- Ability to identify business issues/opportunities and to frame business questions
- Discretion and the ability to deal with confidential information
- Track record of strong networking/influencing skills and for working collaboratively with others across functions and markets
- Embraces, supports and leads change
- Advanced Microsoft Office capabilities, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
- Advanced technical capabilities, CADD, CMMS, CAFM and other facilities management systems
Benefits
- 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions
- Additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution
- Paid vacation
- Holiday and personal days
- Paid caregiver/parental and medical leave
- Health benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
facilities operationscapital managementproject executionbusiness resilience planningincident responsefinancial performance managementstrategic planningrisk managementcompliance managementstakeholder management
Soft Skills
business acumencommunication skillsproject managementorganizational skillsinfluencing skillsteam leadershipnetworking skillscollaborationchange managementdiscretion