Sr Manager, Solutions Lead

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 endeavour 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/4

HANA integrations.

In order of importance, the primary responsibilities that are critical to the performance of this role:

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.

Own the global GMX data, analytics, and reporting solution portfolio across SAP BW, SAP BPC, SAP S/4

HANA 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.

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.

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.

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.

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…