Vice President – GBS Global Procurement

ROLE SUMMARY

GBS is Pfizer's global engine for shared, scaled business services — Procurement, Finance Operations, Colleague Services, Meetings & Travel, and the new Platform & Enablement Services tower. 

Roughly 2,000 colleagues, now organized around five towers rather than seven, pair deep functional expertise with a shared operating discipline in service of Pfizer's purpose: Breakthroughs that Change Patients' Lives.

Procurement is Pfizer's global source-to-pay engine, putting the right supplier at the right price and risk behind every dollar Pfizer spends. Category strategy and supplier management run as one connected discipline, with compliance and continuous improvement built in rather than bolted on.

This leader owns the strategic agenda for GBS Procurement end to end:

• Set category and sourcing strategy tied to the core functions' current and future needs and the Pfizer Blueprint
• Own the operating model, budget, and resourcing decisions behind the team’s commitments
• Redesign end-to-end processes around emerging technology that earns its place — a simpler colleague experience and a leaner cost structure, not technology for its own sake
• Read industry and market shifts early enough to shape strategy, rather than reacting once competitors have moved
• Build and coach a global bench deep enough that performance doesn’t depend on any one person
• Partner across GBS and the Enabling Functions so enterprise initiatives land without Procurement as the bottleneck

Expect regular collaboration with peer senior leaders to turn supplier and sourcing strategy into decisions the business adopts. 

This role sits inside GBS's move to five towers, with Procurement absorbing vendor-facing teams from Enterprise Services and passing select activities to Platform & Enablement Services.

Today's GBS market bar: Labor arbitrage is now assumed, not impressive — leaders are measured on enterprise outcomes (working capital, supplier resilience, revenue enablement) alongside cost to serve. This leader runs category strategy at enterprise scale, holds savings to what lands in the P&L, has moved source-to-pay to a genuinely adopted digital process, and treats supplier concentration and geopolitical risk as board-level topics.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

Category Strategy & Supplier Management

• Hold category strategy, sourcing, and supplier management to one standard of execution, whether the work happens at the local, regional, and global level, so total cost, value, supplier performance, and service levels keep improving across the Pfizer supply base. 
• Own the risk posture behind that supply base, so no single supplier’s performance can materially disrupt a Pfizer strategy — across all spend categories globally and ~$25B in third party spend across 45,000+ suppliers, start to finish.

Source-to-Pay Delivery Network

• Run procurement, travel & expense, and invoice-to-pay teams across strategic hubs, PGS sites, markets, and WRD sites as one connected delivery network rather than a set of local teams, with a control environment that holds up under SOX.

Fleet Management

• Own the outsourced fleet management relationship globally
• Administer Pfizer’s captive leasing entity
• Negotiate and contract directly with automakers and fleet service providers
• Manage the ~$40M annual fleet capital plan

Service Delivery Enablement

• Co-own the systems and tools roadmap with Platform & Enablement Services and Digital, rather than building procurement-specific technology in isolation.
• Keep global policy, procedure, and compliance documentation current and enforced.

Third Party Risk Management

• Design and run Pfizer’s enterprise Third Party Risk Management framework — governance, policy, and the technology behind both. 
• Treat the program as protection for Pfizer’s regulatory standing, reputation, and business continuity wherever third parties execute Pfizer’s strategy — not a compliance checkbox.

Working Capital

• Design and run the Accounts Payable working capital strategy that feeds Pfizer’s broader working capital program.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Graduate business degree strongly preferred
• 15+ years of relevant business experience/20+ years preferred
• A track record of running a large, matrixed organization at global scale
• Demonstrated ability to lead leaders — managing managers of highly skilled specialists, not just individual contributors
• Deep command of strategic sourcing, procurement systems, and policy design, with a working understanding of the technology and supply-market shifts reshaping procurement and invoice-to-pay
• Candidate demonstrates a breadth of diverse leadership experiences and capabilities including: the ability to influence and collaborate with peers, develop and coach others, oversee and guide the work of other colleagues to achieve meaningful outcomes and create business impact.

Other Job Details:

• Last Day to Apply: 8/25/2026
• Work Location Assignment: Hybrid
• Global travel as required

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $313,100.00 to $521,900.00.* In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 35.0% of the base salary and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program. We offer comprehensive and generous benefits and programs to help our colleagues lead healthy lives and to support each of life’s moments. Benefits offered include a 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, and health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage. Learn more at Pfizer Candidate Site – U.S. Benefits | (uscandidates.mypfizerbenefits.com). Pfizer compensation structures and benefit packages are aligned based on the location of hire. The United States salary range provided does not apply to Tampa, FL or any location outside of the United States. * The annual base salary for this position in Tampa, FL ranges from $281,900.00 to $469,800.00. This role is posted in multiple locations. If you are applying for the role in an secondary job posting location where pay transparency regulations apply, your Talent Advisor will share the local pay information with you during the first interview.

Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.

Candidates must be authorized to be employed in the U.S. by any employer.

U.S. work visa sponsorship (such as TN, O-1, H-1B, etc.) is not available for this role now or in the future.

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