Vice President – Forward Impact Engineering and Engagement Team, Global Supply; PGS
Listed on 2026-01-25
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IT/Tech
Data Science Manager, AI Engineer
At Pfizer, our purpose is breakthroughs that change patients’ lives and our colleagues make this happen. All over the world, our colleagues work together to touch millions of lives.
Forward Impact Engineering and Engagement Teams deliver rapid outcomes by experimenting, learning fast, and proving what works.
The Forward Impact Engineering and Engagement Team Lead is a senior leader who drives innovation across Pfizer Global Supply (PGS)—leading a dedicated team of pods that transform prioritized opportunities into rapid prototypes and MVPs. This role blends strategic vision, business engagement, with technical execution
, enabling Pfizer to move faster, reduce complexity, and deliver measurable value. Working closely with senior business leaders, Portfolio Leads, Creation Centers and CoEs, the Forward Impact Engineering and Engagement VP ensures that bold ideas become real, scalable solutions.
The Forward Impact Engineering and Engagement Team Lead directs a high‑performing team that transforms bold ideas into prototypes and minimum viable products. These solutions are validated, proven in market, and transitioned into scalable enterprise capabilities in partnership with creation centers, and centers of excellence.
Role SummaryThe Forward Impact Engineering and Engagement Team Lead is accountable for advancing how PGS operates by moving ideas rapidly from concept to validated solution. This role sits at the intersection of business priorities, technical design, and product delivery, ensuring that the most important opportunities are turned into scalable outcomes. The leader will manage relationships across PGS and Digital, translate priorities into action, and ensure solutions are designed with both technical rigor and customer delight in mind.
Anideal candidate will excel at:
- Strategic Partnering: Shape innovation with senior leaders and align execution to PGS priorities.
- Technical Leadership: Guide teams across AI, data, and platforms to deliver secure, scalable prototypes and MVPs.
- Product Thinking: Drive a fast, user‑centered approach that results in solutions ready to scale.
- AI Fluency: Harness AI to accelerate experimentation and extend Pfizer’s capabilities.
- Entrepreneurial Drive: Thrive in ambiguity, lead rapid iteration, and balance acceptable risk with impact.
- Change Leadership: Shift mindsets, build adoption, and embed new ways of working across complex teams.
- Manufacturing and Supply Chain Expertise: Deep understanding of manufacturing operations and supply chain management.
Enable PGS with a digital ecosystem powered by AI that drives impactful work, paperless operations, and excellence in supply.
Set the Innovation Agenda- Define the digital innovation strategy for PGS and align it with Pfizer’s enterprise priorities.
- Identify high‑impact opportunities where technology can unlock new value and set the tone for bold experimentation and rapid iteration.
- Ensure prototypes and MVPs are designed with scalability in mind and positioned to shape Pfizer’s future operating model.
- Serve as the primary innovation lead for the PGS domain, managing relationships with senior stakeholders and ensuring business priorities are translated into action.
- Co‑create product roadmaps with business leaders that embed real needs and deliver measurable outcomes.
- Maintain momentum through tight alignment with Creation Centers, Portfolio Leads, and product teams to ensure smooth handoff from prototype to scale.
- Collaborate across PGS functions and OpUs to co‑create digital solutions that safeguard quality, automate planning, and optimize manufacturing.
- Lead agile pod teams to turn opportunities into measurable results with speed and precision.
- Guide iterative development, ensuring every solution is technically sound, commercially relevant, and designed around user experience.
- Capture and share insights from prototypes with Portfolio Leads to shape prioritization, investment, and enterprise learning.
- Manage the Forward Impact Engineering and Engagement Team’s budget, resource strategy, and portfolio…
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