Senior Director, Seasonal Vaccines Job at Pfizer (Pearl River)

Job Description

You will help set scientific strategy for a seasonal viral vaccine program based on extensive industry and basic scientific experience in virology, synthetic biology, immunology, and vaccinology. You will provide scientific leadership to a diverse research team, communicate with external stakeholders and collaborators to advance our programs, and demonstrate deep, institutional working knowledge of seasonal vaccine updates and pandemic response systems.

Job Responsibility

Support and enhance the current infrastructure and processes required to enable robust and rapid development and licensure of variant-adapted COVID-19 vaccines
Represent Research on the cross-functional Vaccine Product Team, operating at the interface between research and development and coordinating with non-research functions to meet program goals, including life cycle management
Establish relationships with and serve as a primary scientific liaison with external alliance partners, including collaborating companies, government agencies and non-governmental organizations
Actively manage project risks, devising and implementing appropriate mitigation activities with multidisciplinary teams
Lead timely and effective communication of project risks and impact to senior leaders
Ensures that intellectual property is appropriately obtained and safeguarded
Take a key role in communication about vaccine programs in internal Pfizer documents and external patent applications, regulatory submissions, scientific papers, and conferences
Leads a motivated, committed and engaged research team to provide preclinical data to support annual strain change activities as well as exploration of next-generation vaccine technologies, leading direct reports and non-reports, reviewing experimental designs and data

Requirements

PhD in Virology or a related field
10+ years industry or biotech experience in pre-clinical research and in vaccine technical development, with basic scientific expertise in SARS-CoV-2 research, immunology, serology, RNA vaccine technologies, and synthetic virology
Practical knowledge of global SAR-CoV-2 surveillance, recommendation, and regulatory systems
Experience providing scientific leadership for projects in the pharmaceutical industry, and proven track record of project advancement and delivery in vaccines
Global scientific reputation as evidenced by publication record and interaction with NIH or other established government research agencies
Understanding the scientific and non-scientific aspects of vaccines, and viral vaccine scientific, clinical and competitive landscape
Demonstrated innovation and experience to applying knowledge, techniques and skills to identify and validate best new technologies
Strong communication skills including public speaking experience and scientific writing
Experience collaborating cross functionally
Scientific analysis experience
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

What we offer

eligibility for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 22.5% of the base salary
eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program
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
health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage
Relocation Support Available

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