Sourcing Operations & Enablement Project Manager

For more than 170 years, Pfizer has continuously worked to make a difference by delivering innovative therapies that improve the lives of our patients. By building a talented community of colleagues that align with our patient-focused purpose and core values, Pfizer has improved global health and impacted more than 780 million patients around the world.

In 2021, Pfizer expanded its global footprint to Tampa, establishing a strategic powerhouse that brings together multi-disciplinary, professional services including Finance, Accounting, Treasury, Digital, HR Services, Sourcing, Commercial and Project Management into a single, centralized location. With so many diverse and highly-skilled colleagues supporting multiple functions and services across the organization, Pfizer Tampa offers ample opportunity to engage in newer ways of working that enhance, simplify, and transform how we deliver treatments to our patients.

Located in Heights Union, the Pfizer Tampa site offers a modern industrial design, the latest in innovative technology, and close proximity to Downtown with views of the Tampa Riverwalk and access to the Channel district and Bayshore Boulevard. From an onsite fitness center to top floor panoramic balconies and outdoor patio, our activity-based space will provide various ways of working to offer collaboration and flexibility to colleagues. The Pfizer Tampa site has constructed an atmosphere that fosters interaction and prioritizes colleague health and wellness.

Additionally, to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives, Pfizer is revolutionizing and evolving how colleagues work today. This year, Pfizer launched a new initiative that we call Log In For Your Day where a majority of colleagues can arrange with their manager to work remotely two or three days a week while still maintaining the ability to collaborate regularly in person at our sites. This flexible working model blends the best of remote work and on-site collaboration to drive greater flexibility, support work-life balance, and promote a vibrant, agile, and innovative culture.

Why Patients Need You

Creating value though procurement processes is keeping our products in production and our innovators innovating. Whether you are part of negotiating contracts, managing vendors or forecasting requirements, your role is critical to getting our medicines in the hands of the people who need them most, faster and more efficiently than ever before.

What You Will Achieve

Working with a dynamic team of procurement experts, you will play an important role in negotiating contracts with suppliers for the procurement of goods, services and supplies. You will facilitate category management, purchase goods and services for ongoing operations and manage corporate services.

As a Manager, you will provide guidance to operational teams for managing procurement projects. Your planning skills will help in preparing forecasts for resource requirements, and providing areas of improvement for products, processes or services. Through your comprehensive knowledge of principles, concepts and theories of this discipline, you will work towards advancing new concepts and methodologies. You will be able to take a leadership role to facilitate agreements between different teams.

It is your hard work and focus that will make Pfizer ready to achieve new milestones and help patients across the globe.

How You Will Achieve It

• Provide guidance and lead projects, managing own time to meet objectives and plan resource requirements for projects across the department.
• Deliver site category management, including the development of specific strategies for complex capital projects and management of cross-functional teams.
• Enable supplier selection, decision and approval processes, risk management, business case development, project execution, and facilitate contract development and support negotiations as applicable.
• Execute the elements of Pfizer's Supplier Management process in accordance with program guidelines.
• Continually evaluate and monitor market conditions and adjust sourcing strategies accordingly.
• Ensure efficient operation of transactional activity to meet cost, quality and customer expectations.
• Effectively utilize Pfizer's eSourcing capabilities globally and regionally in advancing sourcing initiatives.
• Identify cost savings opportunities and work with the applicable business colleagues.
• Lead and/or participate in CCT (Category Collaboration Teams) comprised of regional leads/representation.
• Assure the integrity and compliance with the current Pfizer procurement guidelines and corporate procedures.
• Partner with HR and regions to establish and revise global temporary labor strategy that is consistent with Pfizer's talent acquisition need.
• Take a lead role in Local and Regional client relationship management with senior stakeholders.
• Mediate to resolve service related issues with internal and external stakeholders.
• Establish appropriate tools (scorecards, etc.) for communication, monitoring progress of implementation and ongoing compliance.

ROLE SUMMARY

Sourcing & Enterprise Services (SES) delivers world-class procurement capabilities to Pfizer, partnering with internal Pfizer customers to ensure they receive maximum value for every dollar spent with Pfizer suppliers. We accomplish this by executing effective strategic processes, including category management, supplier management and sourcing projects, all supported by efficient procure to pay processes. We add value by aligning Pfizer with the best suppliers, promoting continuous improvement in supplier performance and driving compliance with Pfizer’s intellectual property and privacy requirements. We strive to obtain the right price for the right product or service.

As part of the Sourcing & Enterprise Services (SES) Sourcing Operations & Enablement (SOE) team, the Global Project Manager serves as a Subject Matter Expert & provides project management and thought leadership support for Pfizer’s overall strategy. This role to help advance Pfizer’s training and change management capabilities. The Colleague Engagement and Training Lead will serve as a business process owner and facilitate training across various systems (e.g., Ariba BOD, Fuse integrations, supplier enablement, etc), This role will also serve as a subject matter expert in the SOE systems to help resolve issues and support Pfizer colleagues interpret complex issues. In addition, they will be expected to drive other special projects in the area.

The Colleague Engagement and Training Lead will play a critical role enabling and optimizing the efficiency of tools used at Pfizer by defining and establishing a comprehensive, easy to use, modern training program. This role will need to work closely with SES,SOE, Global Business Services, Business Finance and Digital (Information Technology) to understand the spectrum of training and change management needs. The resource will be required to develop a deep understand of all tools used and independently

Qualifications

Role Responsibilities

• Oversee the Enterprise BOD Training and Change Management Program:
  • Serve as Business Process Owner
  • Maintain and refresh program’s vision
  • Facilitate and administer program
  • Serve as subject matter expert to resolve issues
• Coordinate across project team, larger SOE team, Digital, SES, and GBS partners to implement training improvements. Identify additional improvement opportunities and leverage new emerging tools and capabilities.
• Support User Group sessions with customers to ensure their understanding of new functionality and to collect feedback on system challenges
• Ensure that program improvements are appropriately communicated across Pfizer business groups and divisions.
• Continuously support and develop a collaborative cross-functional team environment and continuous improvement mindset.

Must-Have

• Bachelor's Degree
• 5+ years of demonstrated experience?
• Excellent understanding of the end to end procurement process, including category management, strategic sourcing and supplier management
• Demonstrated proficiency in managing complex, cross-functional activities
• Understanding of analytical models and techniques
• Strong negotiating techniques and knowledge of procurement procedures
• Basic knowledge Ariba, System Application & Products eSourcing, and other system related activities
• Good client engagement and customer relationship management skills
• Articulate communicator with effective interpersonal skills

Nice-to-Have

• Procurement experience in a comparable Blue chip organization and/ or customer service environment

NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS

• Minimal travel
• Occasional early morning or evening meetings in order to connect with colleagues in different Pfizer locations and time zones

Other Job Details

• Last day to apply: May 24, 2022

Pfizer requires all U.S. new hires to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 prior to the first date of employment. As required by applicable law, Pfizer will consider requests for Reasonable Accommodations.

Sunshine Act

Pfizer reports payments and other transfers of value to health care providers as required by federal and state transparency laws and implementing regulations. These laws and regulations require Pfizer to provide government agencies with information such as a health care provider’s name, address and the type of payments or other value received, generally for public disclosure. Subject to further legal review and statutory or regulatory clarification, which Pfizer intends to pursue, reimbursement of recruiting expenses for licensed physicians may constitute a reportable transfer of value under the federal transparency law commonly known as the Sunshine Act. Therefore, if you are a licensed physician who incurs recruiting expenses as a result of interviewing with Pfizer that we pay or reimburse, your name, address and the amount of payments made currently will be reported to the government. If you have questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact your Talent Acquisition representative.

EEO & Employment Eligibility

Pfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status. Pfizer also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA. Pfizer is an E-Verify employer.