Program Manager, Vaccine Development

Why Patients Need You Pfizer Worldwide Medical and Safety colleagues play a key role in connecting evidenced 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. ROLE SUMMARYSupports the Program Director in providing overall project management for Vaccine Research and Development (VRD) program teams in the development of new vaccines from Research through product registration to ensure alignment of strategic and operational objectives.A Program Manager possesses a comprehensive knowledge of vaccine/drug development, resource management concepts, associated business processes, and project planning software and applies skills and general vaccine/drug development knowledge to contribute to the achievement of team or department goals.A Program Manager typically works within a cross-functional team environment but may lead/co-lead moderately complex sub-team initiatives.A Program Manager plays a key supportive role in scenario planning, supports several clinical or regulatory workstreams/ timelines within a program.May lead operational subteams to ensure that the operational deliverables of the program are achieved on or ahead of schedule and within cost standards such that they meet the desired product profile (i.e. quality standard, value), business deliverables and/or key decision required.A Program Manager is expected to use a variety of communication methods and reporting/analytical tools to communicate critical project information to Portfolio Operations, asset, development/project and protocol teams, partner lines and others to support information updates to enable team, line and portfolio decision making.ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES Program Strategy:Collaborates with Program Leader(s) and Program Director to develop program plan that encompasses the overall strategy for the development of the vaccine in all indications ensuring alignment among the overall strategic, operational and line plansProgram planning:Applies technical, team and line knowledge along with comprehensive scheduling knowledge to contribute to the achievement of work team deliverables.Translates team’s strategic objectives into operational plans; provides insight into operational feasibility of proposed strategiesDrives cross-functional and cross-geographic alignment with strategic plans and goalsIdentifies and flags internal or external risks/impacts to strategies and plans; leads subteams in characterizing the impacts and revises plans, as appropriate Monitors progress of project activities towards next project milestone, anticipates and highlights potential variances, supports line/team in critical path analyses and understanding the impact, and partners with the Program Director and the program team to identify/recommend solutions to schedule riskEnsures development plans for all indications in a program are in place and kept currentEnsures operational plans align with and support strategic plansEnsures that cost, time and quality parameters are clearly outlined in the plansEnsures plans/timelines are up to date in Pfizer systems (Planisware, Snapshot, Glue)Drives creation of development plans, ensuring discrete deliverables are well characterized with associated timing, resources, quality parameters, interdependencies across lines, and risk and mitigation plans in collaboration with Program DirectorEnsures plans are realistic in terms of time and resources requiredSupports the process for evaluation, optimization and planning of alternative operational optionsPerforms scenario planning of project timelines to ensure efficient delivery of project milestones.Ensures cross-functional team commitment to the plansSupports negotiations in the allocation of line resources to support the endorsed development plan.Partners with Program Director to develop the VRD budget for the vaccine development plans, in partnership with the program team and VRD OperationsProgram Execution and Delivery:Supports delivery of development plans in alignment with the program team strategiesPartners with key team members (Clinical, Vaccine Research, BioTx Pharmaceutical Sciences, Regulatory, DSRD, Commercial Development, Clinical Operations, etc.) to manage the program to achieve key milestones within time, cost and quality parameters.Helps drive and monitor the delivery of the plans, anticipating and managing issues that arise and bringing forward options for resolutionContributes to risk management through the identification of operational and project/program risks for discussion with appropriate team leadership. Proposed solutions or options to de-risk projects may require developing new options to resolve moderately complex issuesSupports Program Director to work with program teams in operational risk/opportunity and mitigation identification and ensures that such activities are conducted regularlyDocuments risk plan and communicates to all stakeholdersFacilitates and supports program team, extended team and subteam functioningCoordinates and publishes agendas, minutes, and general program team meeting supportManages communications for the program teamManages meetings and communications of cross-functional subteams, as appropriateParticipates in team goal setting and monitors progress on team goalsKnows how to obtain information for the team on company, BioTxPS and VRD processes related to program planningUnderstands governance requirements and facilitates program team interactions with governance, as appropriateMonitors team performance, identifies issues and partners with Program Leader(s) and/or Program Director to recommend and develop appropriate actionInformation & Communication