Senior Director, R&D & Capital Strategy Lead

** ROLE SUMMARY
** The Senior Director**, Global Workplace Experience (GWE), R&D & Capital Strategy Lead
** reports directly to the Senior Vice President, GWE and serves as the enterprise leader accountable for the strategy, governance, and performance of Pfizer’s global, mission‐critical R&D workplace and capital portfolio. This role provides executive oversight of regulated and non‐regulated research, clinical manufacturing, vivarium, and administrative facilities, as well as a complex capital investment portfolio, ensuring delivery against scope, schedule, budget, regulatory, and design standards.

As a trusted executive partner, this leader sets long‐term vision and drives operational excellence, resilience, sustainability, and risk management across all sites, aligning facilities, services, investments, and talent with enterprise priorities to support approximately 12,000 R&D colleagues and enable Pfizer’s R&D strategy and pipeline delivery.

This role leads a large, diverse organization of professional leaders and external partners, with accountability for ~200 FTEs and an annual operating budget in excess of $500M and capital portfolio exceeding $200M. The Senior Director oversees sites including:
* ** East Region:
** NHCRU, Groton, Cambridge, R&D Andover, Pearl River
* ** West Region:
** La Jolla, Bothell, & St. Louis
* ** International Region:
** London, Sandwich, & Chennai
** KEY

ACCOUNTABILITIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
**** Enterprise Strategy & Governance
*** Establish and continuously refresh the Strategic Master Plan for R&D workplaces, ensuring alignment to evolving portfolio, modality, and operating model shifts across the enterprise.
* Set the enterprise‐level vision, standards, and governance for workplace operations, services, and infrastructure across a multi‐site, multi‐regulatory environment (GxP/GMP and non‐GxP), including EH&S
* Serve as an executive advisor to senior R&D and enterprise leadership on workplace strategy, capacity, risk, and investment trade‐offs.
* Set the enterprise strategy for sustainability across R&D workplaces, defining policies, standards, and governance needed to advance Pfizer’s Net Zero Carbon goals.
** Operational Excellence & Risk Stewardship
*** Ensure uninterrupted, compliant, and resilient operations of critical R&D infrastructure supporting discovery through development and clinical manufacturing.
* Proactively identify, evaluate, and mitigate operational, regulatory, and infrastructure risks that could negatively impact the R&D pipeline, business continuity, or colleague safety.
* Lead enterprise crisis management, business resilience planning, and incident response for R&D workplaces.
* Lead the development and execution of a multi‐year decarbonization roadmap for all R&D sites, including energy transformation, building efficiency, clean‐tech adoption, and Scope 1–3 emissions reduction initiatives
** Financial Stewardship & Value Creation
*** Own and deliver financial performance across OPEX and CAPEX portfolios, driving productivity, cost discipline, and long‐term value realization.
* Champion transformational efficiency initiatives and continuous improvement programs that enhance site reliability, service quality, and colleague experience.
* Provide executive‐level financial transparency, forecasting, and investment rationale to senior leadership and governance forums.
** Executive Partnership & Stakeholder Leadership
*** Build and maintain trusted partnerships with senior stakeholders across R&D, GWS, PX, Finance, Digital, EHS, Security, and Compliance, ensuring alignment of priorities and outcomes.
* Influence executive leadership teams and site councils by clearly articulating the strategic value, risk mitigation, and return on investment of workplace initiatives.
* Balance and resolve competing enterprise priorities through strong executive presence, data‐driven decision‐making, and principled trade‐off management.
** Portfolio & Service Oversight
*** Provide executive oversight of a broad portfolio of workplace services, including:  + Facility operations and maintenance  + Capital project delivery  + Utilities and critical infrastructure  + R&D equipment…