Portfolio & Operations Lead

1. Role Summary

The Commercial Excellence & Innovation Portfolio & Operations Lead provides China CEI leadership with an enterprise-level view of strategic priorities, portfolio choices, delivery progress and business outcomes across AI, innovation, technology, data and commercial excellence. The role translates CEI strategy into a prioritized portfolio roadmap, runs CEI and AIT governance, and leads selected cross-functional programs from strategy through implementation and adoption.

The role owns CEI portfolio operations, program leadership and performance management — connecting priorities, resources, delivery progress and value realization, while coordinating execution across CEI functions, China stakeholders, International AIT and Global Digital / CIO.

2. Key Accountabilities

• Translate CEI strategy into a prioritized portfolio roadmap with clear ownership, sequencing and decision points aligned with China and International priorities.

• Operate CEI and AIT portfolio governance, including intake, prioritization, funding gates, Portfolio Council cadence and scale-or-stop tracking.

• Drive CEI resource optimization across budget, capacity, controllable spend, procurement and vendor resources to maximize delivery value and efficiency.

• Integrate value, adoption, delivery and operational performance into one CEI-level executive view.

• Coordinate priorities and execution across CEI functions, China stakeholders, International AIT and Global Digital / CIO.

• Run the CEI PMO — integrated tracking, SteerCo materials, dependency management and a reliable reporting cadence.

• Lead and develop the portfolio and operations team and strengthen governance, planning and delivery discipline across CEI.

• Coordinate portfolio-level AI and data governance for CEI initiatives, ensuring responsible-AI, data governance and compliance requirements are embedded through appropriate review forums and partner functions.

• Lead selected high-priority cross-functional programs from planning through implementation and adoption, managing critical milestones, decisions, risks and dependencies, including large-scale commercial platform, system and regulatory program delivery and enterprise change management.

3. Required Capabilities & Competencies

(a) Critical Capabilities & Qualifications

• Portfolio, program and PMO leadership — governance, investment and funding-gate management, executive reporting, and cross-functional delivery with milestone, risk, dependency and operating-model management.

• Ability to define portfolio performance metrics and translate portfolio data into actionable executive insights.

• Budget, capacity, procurement and vendor management with strong financial discipline.

• Strong stakeholder and enterprise change management across business, product, technology, data, AI and governance groups in a matrixed local-and-global environment.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Technology, Finance or a closely related discipline; an advanced technical or business degree is preferred.

• Experience in a highly regulated industry and the China commercial, technology and vendor environment is preferred.

• Experience in commercial excellence, sales operations or business planning within the pharmaceutical industry is an advantage.

(b) Leadership Expectations

• Enterprise orchestration: connects strategic priorities, resources, delivery progress and outcomes into a coherent CEI operating view.

• Execution discipline: converts strategy into governed roadmaps, funding decisions, measurable benefits and reliable delivery.

• Outcome and value focus: uses portfolio insights to guide prioritization, decisions and value realization.

• Financial and operational rigor: manages budget, capacity, spend and vendor performance with control and transparency.

4. Key Collaboration

The role reports to the China CEI Head and partners closely with the AI Transformation Office (AITO) and Digital & Technology (D&T) leads, and with Go-to-Market Transformation (GTMx), Global Commercial Analytics (GCA) and the Pfizer Innovation Center (PIC). It coordinates with China Business Units and functions, and with Finance, Procurement, Legal, Privacy, Risk and Compliance on investment, spend and governance. The role also connects with International AIT and Global Digital / CIO to align China priorities and execution, and runs the Portfolio Council and SteerCo cadence across CEI.

5. Measures of Success

• One integrated CEI portfolio view with clear intake, prioritization, funding gates and scale or stop decisions.

• Priority cross-functional programs delivered against milestones, with risks and dependencies actively managed.

• Budgets, capacity and controllable spend optimized across CEI and broader China resources.

• Integrated value, adoption, delivery and operational performance reporting that informs executive decisions.

• Effective Portfolio Council and SteerCo operations and aligned priorities across China and International.

Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.

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