Business Management, Office of the CVO (Secondment 9-12 Months)

WHY PATIENTS NEED YOU

Every high-performing leadership team depends on a strong operator behind the scenes, someone who keeps things organized, moves work forward, and helps the team execute well. This secondment offers a Pfizer colleague the chance to do that work for the global Vaccines leadership team and to see from the inside how it sets priorities, makes decisions, and delivers.

In the Business Management, Office of the CVO (Secondment) role, you will run the day-to-day operations of the Office of the Chief Vaccines Officer (CVO) as a trusted operational partner to the CVO and the Vaccines Chief of Staff (CoS). You will help prepare the groundwork for executive engagements, support cross-functional workstreams with guidance from the CoS, exercise sound judgment on day-to-day sequencing, and flag trade-offs as they arise. We are looking for someone organized, curious, and comfortable with ambiguity, who will not only keep things running but look for ways to make them run better.

WHAT YOU WILL ACHIEVE

The CVO Office is a small, high-trust, collaborative team. You will report directly to the Chief of Staff, who helps translate the CVO's priorities into execution, advises the CVO and the Vaccines Leadership Team, and drives alignment across Vaccines and its key partners. You will take direction from the CoS on scope and sequencing while owning execution end to end.

As you build a track record over the assignment, your scope will grow. You will be expected to anticipate needs, take initiative within your remit, and keep the CoS informed and aligned.

HOW YOU WILL ACHIEVE IT

Strategic Operations & Meeting Discipline (40%)

Executive forums: Coordinate the planning, sequencing, and execution of core leadership forums, strategy meetings, and CVO engagements. Support agenda design and topic sequencing with the CoS as priorities shift.

Execution and follow-through: Drive meeting discipline. Capture decisions and action items, assign clear ownership, and follow up with tact across senior stakeholders to keep work moving.

Administrative network: Serve as the operational link to the executive and administrative assistant network across Vaccines, keeping calendars, logistics, and priorities aligned with the CoS and CVO.

Core Operations & Business Management (25%)

Recognition and reward programs: Manage the end-to-end coordination of colleague recognition and reward programs across the Vaccines organization.

Systems and tracking: Build simple dashboards, trackers, and document structures that keep the CVO Office organized, responsive, and data-informed.

Cross-Functional Partnership (20%)

Navigate the R&D matrix: Build working relationships across the broader Pfizer R&D organization and within Vaccines, including teams across Vaccines, Leadership Team functions, and Site Affairs & Business Operations.

Partner with enabling functions: Act as a day-to-day operational contact for partner functions outside Vaccines, including People Experience (PX), Global Workplace Experience (GWE), Digital, and Legal.

Executive Communications & Digital Tools (15%)

Executive communications: Turn scientific, organizational, and operational information into clear briefings, presentations, and memos with strong attention to detail.

Digital infrastructure: Maintain and improve SharePoint sites, Teams hubs, and shared repositories that support information flow across the organization.

AI and automation: Use approved digital productivity and AI tools in your daily work to speed up synthesis and drafting, and create templates that help the broader team work smarter.

Who Will Thrive in This Role

An owner: You see what needs to be done, often before being asked, and follow through from planning to the final detail while keeping stakeholders informed.

Discreet: You handle sensitive organizational, personnel, and strategic information with integrity and confidentiality.

Comfortable with ambiguity: You can bring order to unstructured situations and build the processes others rely on.

Curious: You pull information together quickly, ask good questions, and look for smarter ways of working.

Digitally fluent: You use approved digital and AI tools to reduce manual work and improve the speed and quality of your output.

What Success LooksLike

By Day 30: You have built working relationships with the CoS, the Vaccines Leadership Team, and the administrative network, and you understand the office's operating rhythm, budget, and PO processes.

By Day 90: You own the executive meeting cadence, meeting discipline, and action tracking. You have improved at least one cross-functional workflow, for example with GWE or PX.

By the end of the secondment: The CVO Office is running with more speed and clarity because of the systems you built. You have delivered at least one colleague recognition initiative and documented processes so they continue after you return to your home role.

What You Will Take Back

This secondment is designed as a development experience. While it does not guarantee a future role, colleagues who complete it can expect to gain:

A first-hand understanding of how Vaccines leadership sets priorities and makes decisions.

Practical experience running executive operating rhythms across a global matrix.

A broader network across Vaccines, R&D, and enabling functions.

Stronger executive communication, synthesis, and influencing skills.

QUALIFICATIONS

Must-Have

Applicant must have a bachelor's degree with at least 5+ years of experience.

Typically 3 to 6 years of experience in operations, strategy, program or project management, or business support roles in a complex, matrixed environment. Colleagues at other levels who meet the requirements are encouraged to apply.

Hands-on use of digital productivity tools (such as Microsoft 365 and Copilot) to improve speed, efficiency, and quality.

Strong written and verbal communication skills, including turning complex information into clear, executive-ready materials.

Nice-to-Have

• •Master's degree with at least 3+ years of experience; OR a PhD with 1+ years of experience; OR as associate's degree with 8+ years of experience; OR a high school diploma (or equivalent) and 10+ years of relevant experience.
• •Familiarity with Pfizer systems, processes, and the Vaccines or broader R&D organization.

Experience in biopharma, healthcare, life sciences, or scientific R&D environments.

Experience applying continuous improvement (e.g., Lean) or structured project management methods.

SECONDMENT TERMS

The selected colleague steps away from their current role for the duration of the secondment and keeps their existing employment terms, including compensation, benefits, global job level, and grade. No grade or salary change applies.

Funding is as noted above. Final terms, including start and end dates, are agreed between the home and host managers before an offer is made.

Home and host managers will partner on performance conversations and the annual compensation cycle during the assignment.

A transition plan will be developed before the start date, and a return plan at least one month before the secondment ends.

BEFORE YOU APPLY

Please talk with your current manager to confirm that the timing and your workload make a secondment feasible. Applications are submitted through the standard Workday posting, followed by the usual interview process.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Physical/Mental requirements: Sitting, standing, walking, ability to perform mathematical calculations, and ability to perform complex data analysis.

US/PR colleagues who are issued an Incident Final Warning (IFW) disciplinary action are not eligible to post and compete for a position for a period of 12 months from the date an IFW is issued.

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