Sr Manager, Solutions Lead

Senior Manager, Sap Gmx Data & Analytics Solutions

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/4

HANA integrations.

Role Responsibilities

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

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/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.

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.

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.

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,…