Director of Study Management

Why Patients Need You 
Pfizer's Worldwide Medical and Safety colleagues play a key role in connecting evidence based medical decision support with colleagues and stakeholders to enable better health and treatment outcomes. Whether you are creating framework necessary to ensure our evidence is scientifically sound, providing unbiased, medically necessary expertise or investigating how to close gaps in data, our mission is simple. Empower healthcare decisions regarding the safe and appropriate use of medicines for patients.   

What You Will Achieve 
You will ensure that the clinical studies conducted in the Pfizer Biopharma Group are within time, budget and scope. You will help us plan and direct the clinical studies. You will create the timelines of the study and also communicate these timelines to the team. Your ability to meet agreed targets will help us develop plans for short-term work activities like deliverables, workplan, and timelines. 
 
As a Director, you are a subject matter expert and leverage your knowledge of industry, customer requirements and general business environment to adapt and implement strategic actions for the division. Your ability to interpret your division's strategy will establish business priorities that support and set long-term direction for the division. Your managerial skills will help us manage and lead people, technological and financial resources within the division. 
 
Through your expertise and extensive knowledge, you will be able to foster a culture that promotes innovation and thrives on doing better for patients and healthcare.  

How You Will Achieve It 

• Set objectives for and manage multiple projects and the ongoing work activities within a Global Business Unit/Global Operating Unit. 

• Act as a single, authoritative source of study information and leads study level status reporting per organizational norms and expectations. 

• Lead the study team and associated deliverables across all functions; accountable for managing and driving overall study timelines, budgets and quality targets to meet or exceed business needs. 

• Accountable to ensure effective study team scheduling, records and communications.

• Accountable for strategic planning, decision making at the study level in line with program objectives. 

• Utilize negotiation, facilitation, meeting management and conflict resolution skills to enhance cross-functional study team performance and accountable for effective study team operations. 

• Represent clinical operations on the asset level teams as per the organizational expectations and asset team charter, serve as a single point of accountability for operational delivery of clinical programs. 

• Lead clinical operations' sub-team(s) where appropriate, e.g. for large programs …