Manager: Business Analyst, Pfizer Digital

ROLE SUMMARY
In line with the Pfizer Digital Operating Model, the Client Partners play a crucial role in establishing strong partnerships and developing strategies with business leaders to drive breakthroughs that change patients' lives. This role will report to the Digital Client Partner for the Pharmaceutical Sciences line. As a Business Analyst, you will play a key role in shaping the overall Digital strategy for that line. In this global role, you will be working in close partnership with the user community and stakeholders across Pfizer Digital to drive projects that deliver powerful, functional, and well-integrated digital products that generate novel scientific insights, enhance productivity, and drive a superior user experience.
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
The primary responsibilities for this role include the following:

• The job holder is expected to work closely with the client partner to develop and implement digital strategy that aligns with the overall business objectives of the Pharmaceutical Sciences line, leveraging emerging technologies and trends to drive digital transformation.
  
• Use your business analysis expertise to analyse systems and process workflows to understand user needs and improvement opportunities ; solicit, interpret, and synthesize user requirements, and drive design activities to translate these requirements into elegant, workable, and well-integrated systems and products that maximise R&D value.
  
• Provide strategic oversight, spearhead moderately complex, cross-functional projects involving multiple stakeholders, and effectively employ matrix management techniques to drive successful outcomes.
  
• Influence and communicate effectively and present complex ideas to varied stakeholders at all levels, both business and digital
  
• Act as a product owner, where necessary, for R&D digital products and manage external partners.
  
• Work closely with Digital Creation Centres to communicate requirements and design solution to deliver technology solutions.
  

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in technology related field
  
• Demonstrable experience in combined in similar roles in IT or consulting domain with particular focus on the life sciences industry
  
• Proficient in business analysis skills to identify opportunities to define, structure, lead and deliver appropriate technology solutions.
  
• Prior experience in strategy and delivering digital transformation projects with particular focus on R&D lab infrastructure, systems and process automation, analytics, and modelling.
  
• Effective stakeholder and matrix management at various levels and domains
  
• Organizational agility, understand organizational structures, policy, procedures, processes, roles & responsibilities across business and Digital groups; skillful in navigating through and working with different functional groups to get the work done.
  
• Self-driven and self-learning to adapt to changes or new environment using knowledge, experience, and judgement to guide teams and make decisions in ambiguous situations and/or to resolve complex situations and achieve desired results.
  

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Advanced degree in computer science, data science, or a business-related discipline
  
• Good understanding of R&D lab systems, automation, data science, artificial intelligence and machine learning workflows
  
• Good understanding of the pharmaceutical drug development process
  

Work Location Assignment: Flexible