Senior Manager, SAP GMX Solution Delivery

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, EarnIn submissions, GMX certifications, reconciliations, month-end and quarter-end close support, analytics enablement, and business stakeholder engagement. The role operates with global scope and partners across Finance, Controllers, Supply Chain, Digital, SAP platform teams, compliance, and strategic vendor partners to ensure GMX solutions are accurate, scalable, compliant, reliable, and aligned to Pfizer’s broader SAP modernization roadmap.

The role requires a strong combination of strong business acumen, Senior stakeholder influence, SAP BW/BPC technical depth, SAP SD and Finance functional understanding, people leadership, delivery governance, stakeholder management, and the ability to translate business needs into sustainable technology outcomes. The incumbent will serve as a primary Digital leader for GMX solution analytics delivery, partnering with Finance, GMX business leads, SAP platform teams, Digital teams, and strategic vendor partners to deliver measurable business value. The role is expected to shape the GMX analytics roadmap, provide senior judgment on complex business a nd technology issues, drive modernization and standardization, and ensure that GMX solutions continue to support critical Finance needs.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

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.
• •Drive transparency on delivery progress, risks, dependencies, resource constraints, and trade-off decisions.
• •Establish delivery KPIs, OKRs, or operational metrics to measure solution quality, adoption, reliability, and value realization.
• •Ensure portfolio decisions support enterprise priorities and avoid fragmentation of GMX data and reporting capabilities

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.

SAP Functional and Technical Leadership

• •Provide leadership and direction across SAP BW, BPC, AfO, ABAP, S/4HANA SD, Material Master, Product Costing, FI-GL, and Finance master data integration areas.
• •Guide the team in designing and supporting BW data acquisition layers, including DataSources, CDS-based extraction, ODQ framework, InfoPackages, DTPs, process chains, and delta load monitoring.
• •Oversee BW modeling design across Advanced DSOs, Composite Providers, Open ODS Views, analytic models, and transformation routines.
• •Ensure BPC planning functions, FOX formulas, input-ready queries, planning sequences, and AfO templates are designed to meet business planning and consolidation needs.
• •Support validation and reconciliation between BW/BPC outputs and source SAP systems, especially for pricing, costing, markup, inventory, and financial reporting processes.
• •Provide escalation support for complex technical issues, performance challenges, and business-critical reporting or planning defects.

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.