ROLE SUMMARY
Digital is helping Pfizer Global Supply win the digital race in pharma and create breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Digital provides innovative digital solutions that unleash the power of our people by allowing them to focus their time and attention on value-add tasks. Our solutions accelerate key PGS initiatives and help PGS sites realize benefits of continuous improvement more rapidly.
The Digital Manufacturing team enables a world-class manufacturing and supply chain organization by increasing visibility and efficiency across diverse systems and processes, and delivering predictive analytics and insights. The team supports Pfizer’s Core Manufacturing & Engineering Solutions, while enabling a secure, seamless flow of contextualized data from the device & control levels, all the way to the top of the Enterprise. Our goal is to create persona driven, connected experiences across our shop floors to predict and optimize operations, while providing intelligence, and real-time insights to operators. Key functional areas:
1. Strategy & Operation Excellence
2. Global Supply Engineering & Sustainment
3. Manufacturing Operations Solutions (MOS)
4. E2E Network Solutions
The Manager, MOS Site Launch supports the deployment of Manufacturing Execution Solutions (MES) across PGS Manufacturing sites by coordinating and executing value-based scoping of sites, supporting the development of the long-term MES deployment roadmap. The Manager will coordinate pre-deployment activities, ensuring alignment with global Digital standards and templates. This role supports the definition and execution of MES deployment acceleration initiatives, contributing to long term strategic goals of lowering cost per Electronic Batch Record (EBR) implementation and speed to value. The manager will collaborate closely with site teams and cross-functional partners to enable a successful deployment.
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
The Manager, MOS Site Launch colleague’s responsibilities include but are not limited to:
1. Support Value-Focused MES Deployment Planning: Partner with senior team members to scope high-value business areas and contribute to defining deployment strategies that support digital and PGS priorities.
2. Develop Site-Level Roadmaps Aligned to Global Priorities:
Translate the global MES vision into tailored site-specific roadmaps, ensuring alignment with long-term manufacturing and digital transformation objectives.
3. Coordinate Pre-Deployment Readiness for Activities:
Drive all pre-deployment preparation activities — including stakeholder alignment, gap analysis, integration scoping, and process mapping, ensuring the site is fully prepared for MES execution.
4. Facilitate Cross-Functional Stakeholder Engagement
Build trusted partnerships with site operations, quality, engineering, and automation teams to ensure shared ownership of the MES strategy, scope, and launch approach.
5. Manage Handover to Deployment Teams:
Facilitate a structured transition of the site to the MES deployment team, ensuring a clear scope, defined success criteria, and readiness across people, processes, and systems.
7. Track Progress against Milestones: Monitor and communicate progress against roadmap deliverables and escalate risks or blockers as needed.
8. Embed Deployment Accelerators
Contribute to and implement repeatable launch accelerators – such as playbooks, reusable templates, standard MES functionality and integration channels, new deployment models and AI to drive greater standardization and contribute to program acceleration goals.
9. Manage Site-Level Budget Inputs
Support financial planning for site launch and readiness by estimating deployment costs, resource planning and flagging potential variances to senior team members.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
5. BS in Engineering or Technology based subjects(s) or equivalent experience.
6. 4+ years related work experience, 1-3 years of which would preferably be in a Global Solution environment focused on the build and deployment of Manufacturing Execution Solutions (MES).
7. Relevant domain experience in manufacturing and/or quality operations.
8. Experience in all stages of solution and application lifecycle from value analysis, business case development, and solution deployment through to value realization and system retirement is a significant advantage.
9. Ability to work across multiple concurrent activities and successfully adapt to changing priorities as required.
10. An understanding of system cGMP requirements and demonstrable knowledge of computer system design and maintenance lifecycle in cGMP environments.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
11. Experience working with Rockwell Pharmasuite or Siemens OpCenter Execution Pharma
12. Experience with Agile Software Delivery as a Product Owner.
13. Hands on experience in a manufacturing facility.
Work Location Assignment: Hybrid
Additional Information
14. In order to be considered for this position in Ireland you need to be legally eligible to work in Ireland.
15. Please note there is no relocation support available for this position
How to apply
16. Make a difference today, all suitable candidates should apply with CV below. We are looking forward to hearing from you!
Purpose
Breakthroughs that change patients' lives... At Pfizer we are a patient centric company, guided by our four values: courage, joy, equity and excellence. Our breakthrough culture lends itself to our dedication to transforming millions of lives.
Digital Transformation Strategy
One bold way we are achieving our purpose is through our company wide digital transformation strategy. We are leading the way in adopting new data, modelling and automated solutions to further digitize and accelerate drug discovery and development with the aim of enhancing health outcomes and the patient experience.
Equal Employment Opportunity
We believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce is crucial to building a successful business. As an employer, Pfizer is committed to celebrating this, in all its forms – allowing for us to be as diverse as the patients and communities we serve. Together, we continue to build a culture that encourages, supports and empowers our employees.
Disability Inclusion
Our mission is unleashing the power of all our people and we are proud to be a disability inclusive employer, ensuring equal employment opportunities for all candidates. We encourage you to put your best self forward with the knowledge and trust that we will make any reasonable adjustments to support your application and future career. Your journey with Pfizer starts here!
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