Senior Director/Team Lead, Global Commercial Strategy

Pfizer

Lead Global Opinion Leader Liaison team, enhancing external stakeholder engagement and strategy for Pfizer's pharmaceutical initiatives. Responsibilities include team development and compliance oversight across therapeutic areas.

Posted 7/11/2026full-timeNew York City • Connecticut, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $214,900 - $358,100 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead, develop, and manage a team of Global Opinion Leader Liaison colleagues across therapeutic areas, such as vaccines and I&I.
Set individual and team priorities, provide coaching and performance feedback, and create a culture of accountability, collaboration, agility, and continuous learning.
Build and maintain a high-performing OLL team with deep external engagement capabilities, disease area fluency, and the ability to flex across brand and portfolio priorities.
Develop colleagues by strengthening engagement craft, insight generation, executive communication, compliant ways of working, and cross-functional leadership capabilities.
Foster a team culture that elevates quality, strengthens enterprise alignment, and reinforces Pfizer Values in every internal and external interaction.
Lead development of an integrated OLL strategy across TAs that supports brand, launch, lifecycle, and portfolio priorities.
Ensure opinion leader and key stakeholder engagement plans are strategically aligned, insight-driven, coordinated across functions, and grounded in clear objectives.
Guide the team in building and maintaining prioritized opinion leader and key stakeholder landscapes, engagement plans, and compliant interaction models.
Oversee insight gathering from 1:1 engagements, small-group interactions, advisory boards, congresses, and other external forums to inform commercial strategy and execution.
Enhance the external stakeholder engagement experience by driving consistency, preparation, follow-through, and coordination across Pfizer touchpoints while ensuring everything is done compliantly following Pfizer HCP policies and guidelines.
Provide leadership oversight for OLL contributions to congress, MedEd, advisory board, HCP consulting, and external engagement planning across TAs.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
12+ years of experience in pharmaceutical marketing, commercial strategy, medical affairs, customer engagement, opinion leader engagement, stakeholder engagement, or related field.
Demonstrated experience leading and developing teams, including managing colleagues across levels in a matrixed environment.
Experience designing, developing, and executing opinion leader or key stakeholder engagement strategies, including insight gathering, engagement planning, and performance tracking.
Strong understanding of pharmaceutical commercial strategy, brand planning, launch readiness, lifecycle management, KOL network mapping, congress engagement, and/or MedEd execution.
Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, influence without direct authority, and build alignment across complex stakeholder groups.
Strong communication, organization, analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.

Benefits

Comp & perks

401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions and an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution
paid vacation
holiday and personal days
paid caregiver/parental and medical leave
health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage

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Hard Skills & Tools

Commercial StrategyEngagement PlanningPerformance TrackingKOL Network MappingBrand PlanningLifecycle ManagementCongress EngagementMedEd Execution

Soft Skills

LeadershipCommunicationAnalytical SkillsProblem-SolvingOrganizational Skills

Certifications

Bachelor's DegreeMBA or Advanced Degree Preferred