(Insourcing) Project Planner

● Responsible for coordinating, monitoring and reporting project schedule and

resource management information to enable alignment of PRD and partner line

schedules and FTE/dollar resources. These schedules include:

o Clinical study plans (Protocol Development to Final Clinical Study Report)

and Clinical Operation Submission activities to support Module 1 and 5 of the

submission plan.

● Identifies and raises schedule conflicts, risks, and resource peaks/troughs

appropriately for resolution.

● Directly participates in and contributes to cross-functional and functional

teams to discuss, review, and optimize protocol/project/program schedules and

study cost estimates.

● Monitors progress of project activities towards next project milestone,

anticipates and highlights potential variances, supports line/team in critical

path analyses and understanding the impact.

● Performs scenario planning of project timelines within and across protocols

and across disease area/portfolio to enable optimum use of local, global, and

outsourced resources to ensure efficient delivery of project milestones.

Project Execution and Delivery

● Partners with key team members (e.g., PM, Medicinal Sciences, CS&O, DSRD,

Commercial) to manage the project and achieve key milestones according to the

endorsed timeline, cost, and quality parameters.

● Contributes to risk management through the identification of operational and

project/program risks for discussion with appropriate team leadership.

Participates in team discussions to de-risk projects and develop new options to

resolve moderately complex issues.

● Provides the Portfolio Management group with project schedule information to

enable effective portfolio management activities.

Analysis and Reporting

● Produces what-if scenario analyses (base, optimistic and pessimistic

development) based on context obtained from project team members (e.g. PM,

Medicinal Sciences, CS&O, DSRD, Commercial). Decisions taken by the team based

on these analyses may impact project delivery, costs, and resource requirements.

● Reviews own work regarding quality of schedule and resource metadata through

utilization of quality reports and monitoring/management of such data with the

team/line members.

● Provides timely reporting to the PM, Portfolio Management, and project

teams, alerting them to the possibility of endangered/missed or conflicting

milestones and critical path activities.

● Ensures regular information updates and analysis and interpretation of

planning and forecasting data to project teams, Portfolio Management, platform

lines, and management teams.

● Utilizes available reporting and visualization tools to support governance

and team reporting needs (e.g. OnePager, Business Objects, Spotfire).

● Provides context to local customers of reports generated globally and

consolidates customer feedback to enable improvement of existing reports and

generation of new reports.

Process

● Partners with project team members (e.g. PM, Medicinal Sciences, CS&O, DSRD,

Commercial) to identify opportunities and potential solutions to realize

efficiency in the development process.

● Contributes to continuous improvement of project plans, plan generation,

plan utilization, and/or report creation/development processes.

Minimal/Must-have Requirement

Education

● Bachelors level degree.

● B.S. with 2+ years' experience or M.S. with 1-2 years' experience.

Experience

● At least 1 year experience in project planning and project management.

● At least 2 years’ experience in pharmaceutical industry or related/similar

industry.

Beneficial Relevant Capabilities

● Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred but not

required.

● Experienced in end-game/regulatory submission planning and/or product launch

planning.

● Experienced with planning and resource forecasting tools (e.g., MS Project,

Planisware, OnePager).

● Experienced user of reporting and office software (e.g., MS Office, Business

Objects, Spotfire).

● Trained/experienced in negotiation, facilitation and managing

cross-functional team dynamics.

Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal

employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.

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