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Sr Manager, Solutions Lead

Pfizer

Collegeville, PA, US$124k – $207konsite

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ROLE SUMMARY Every day at Pfizer, we are dedicated to delivering top-notch, safe, and effective products to those who need them the most. In the Digital division, our commitment is reinforced by a science-driven, risk-aware quality culture, extending a passionate endeavor to improve patients’ lives. The Senior Manager, SAP GMX Data & Analytics Solutions is accountable for the end-to-end leadership, delivery, governance, and strategic evolution of GMX-enabled data and analytics capabilities supporting global financial, operational, and compliance-critical reporting. This role serves as a senior point of accountability for GMX data solutions, including SAP BW, SAP BPC, SAP S/4HANA integrations.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES In order of importance, the primary responsibilities that are critical to the performance of this role:   People Leadership and Vendor Management • Lead, mentor, and provide direction to matrix colleagues, analysts, managers, contractors, and vendor resources supporting GMX data and analytics work. • Set priorities, manage capacity, review deliverables, and ensure high-quality execution across internal and external resources. • Manage vendor execution, deliverable quality, responsiveness, documentation, and adherence to Pfizer standards. • Support sourcing, onboarding, knowledge transfer, succession planning, and continuity for critical GMX analytics capabilities.

SAP GMX Solution Delivery Ownership and strategic accountability • Own the global GMX data, analytics, and reporting solution portfolio across SAP BW, SAP BPC, SAP S/4HANA integrations, and related reporting platforms. • Serve as a senior Digital point of accountability for GMX-enabled analytics, reporting, reconciliation, and certification capabilities. • Provide strategic direction for GMX solution design, data architecture, reporting enablement, operational stability, and modernization. • Ensure GMX solutions support critical Finance, Controllers, Supply Chain, and enterprise reporting needs. • Drive roadmap planning for GMX data and analytics capabilities, balancing strategic transformation, regulatory expectations, business demand, and operational continuity. • Provide senior judgment on complex GMX data issues, financial reporting dependencies, SAP integration risks, and cross-functional process impacts.

Portfolio, Demand, and Prioritization Management

• Manage the GMX demand pipeline in partnership with business stakeholders, Digital leads, and portfolio governance teams. • Evaluate incoming work based on business value, urgency, regulatory/compliance impact, technical feasibility, and resource capacity. • Define delivery roadmaps that balance transformation initiatives, business enhancements, regulatory needs, and BAU stability.

Stakeholder Engagement and Business Partnership

• Act as a senior GMX solution subject matter leader for Finance, Controllers, Digital, SAP platform teams, and business stakeholders. • Lead cross-functional governance discussions, design reviews, roadmap planning sessions, escalation forums, and executive-ready updates. • Translate complex SAP, Finance, GMX, and data architecture topics into business-oriented recommendations and decisions. • Influence senior stakeholders to align priorities, solution direction, risk mitigation, and adoption strategies. • Communicate clearly on status, risks, decisions, dependencies, and outcomes at senior leadership levels. • Build trusted partnerships across business, Digital, compliance, and vendor teams to drive sustainable business value.

Delivery Leadership and Operational Excellence • Lead end-to-end delivery across requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, stabilization, and support transition. • Provide senior oversight for multiple initiatives, ensuring delivery quality, consistency, documentation, and production readiness. • Drive root-cause analysis and long-term remediation for recurring production issues, data defects, reconciliation breaks, and process inefficiencies. • Ensure development work follows approved standards, naming conventions, code review practices, testing expectations, and release governance. • Improve operational processes through automation, monitoring, standardization, knowledge management, and continuous improvement. • Ensure business-critical GMX processes have appropriate support coverage, escalation paths, and continuity planning.

Governance, Controls, Compliance and Audit Readiness

• Establish and maintain governance standards for GMX data, analytics, reporting, certifications, reconciliations, and documentation. • Ensure solutions adhere to SDLC, change control, testing, validation, audit, compliance, and data governance requirements. • Maintain ownership of audit-ready artifacts, process documentation, design decisions, control evidence, and operational playbooks. • Partner with compliance, audit, quality, Finance, and technical teams to address control gaps and improve traceability. • Ensure testing strategies include unit testing, integration testing, regression testing, reconciliation validation, business acceptance, and production readiness. • Provide senior-level risk assessment and mitigation planning for production issues, compliance concerns, data integrity risks, and business-impacting defects.

Communication, Escalation, and Executive Readiness • Provide clear and concise status updates to leadership on delivery progress, risks, issues, decisions, and business impact. • Prepare materials for governance forums, steering discussions, stakeholder reviews, and operational checkpoints. • Escalate critical risks and system issues in a timely and structured manner, including recommended mitigation options. • Drive adoption through demos, knowledge-sharing sessions, training support, and stakeholder engagement.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS • Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Finance, Engineering, Business, or a related field. • 10+ years of experience in SAP BW, SAP BPC

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