Sr Director, Inventory Intelligence Lead

Use Your Power for Purpose

Our manufacturing logistics and supply team ensures that customers and patients receive the medicines they need precisely when they need them. By embracing challenges, imagining new possibilities, and taking decisive action, you will play a crucial role in bringing medicines to the world more swiftly. Your efforts will help us meet the needs of patients everywhere, making a significant impact on global health.

What You Will Achieve

Role Summary

The Inventory Intelligence Lead is a newly created global role within the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Central Platform, accountable for building Pfizer Global Supply Chain’s enterprise inventory intelligence capability. The role will enable better decisions across service, cost, risk, and working capital by creating one forward-looking view of inventory health, trajectory, and required actions.

This leader will transform inventory management from a largely manual and financially oriented reporting process into a predictive, intelligence-driven capability that informs enterprise choices on inventory targets, deployment, replenishment, risk mitigation, and cash-flow impact.

The role owns the enterprise inventory planning process end-to-end, from forecasting and target setting through deployment, risk trade-offs, and write-off mitigation. The Inventory Intelligence Lead will publish the Statement of Inventory as the recurring enterprise view of current inventory position, projected trajectory, key risks, mitigation actions, and 3+ year outlook.

The leader will govern forward-looking inventory projections and optimization models, embedding advanced analytics and AI-enabled capabilities to guide where inventory should be held, how much is needed, and in what form. They will also establish early-warning analytics for at-risk inventory, lead cross-functional mitigation programs, and create standardized self-service inventory insights and reporting across site, market, and enterprise stakeholders.

Through Integrated Manufacturing Excellence (IMEx) principles, the role will ensure standard ways of working, process replication, and consistent quality and compliance requirements across inventory planning activities. The incumbent will work in close partnership with other Central Platform and Operations intelligence leads, Finance, Commercial, Quality, site teams, and market supply chain leaders.

The incumbent will report to the Vice President, Integrated Business Planning, serve as a member of the IBP Leadership Team, and help advance the broader IBP transformation agenda through enterprise governance, capability building, and selected transformation initiatives.

Enterprise Inventory Planning Governance

Own and continuously improve the enterprise inventory planning governance model, ensuring one aligned inventory plan across supply, demand, financial, and network views.

• Define inventory target setting and policy design (safety stock, cycle stock, strategic/risk stock) across the network

• Integrate inventory planning into the tiered IBP review cadence and Budget/ Latest Estimate (LE) financial cycles

• Ensure one agreed set of inventory plans reconciled across supply, demand and financial views

Inventory Forecasting and Optimization

• Develop and govern forward-looking inventory projections balancing service, cost and cash objectives

• Embed advanced optimization capabilities (multi-echelon inventory optimization, statistical modelling, AI-enabled tools) in partnership with Supply Planning Data Intelligence

• Support scenario modelling of inventory strategies and their service and working-capital implications

Inventory Deployment and Risk Trade-offs

• Define the framework for deployment decisions across the network – where to hold, how much and in what form

• Lead structured risk trade-off analyses (service risk vs. obsolescence risk vs. working capital) with documented options and rationale

• Escalate material trade-offs through IBP governance with quantified impacts

Write-off Mitigation and Inventory Risk Reduction

• Build early-warning analytics for at-risk inventory (expiry, obsolescence, slow-moving and excess stock)

• Lead cross-functional mitigation programs with sites, markets and Finance to reduce write-offs and destruction costs

• Drive measurable mitigation performance against agreed targets, including reduction of write-offs, destruction costs, and Excess or Obsolete (E&O) inventory exposure

Inventory Intelligence, Analytics, and Statement of Inventory

• Establish standardized, self-service inventory insights and reporting for site, market, and enterprise stakeholders, anchored in one consistent set of inventory metrics, definitions, and decision standards

• Publish the enterprise Statement of Inventory – a recurring, authoritative view of current position, projected trajectory, key risks and actions – feeding IBP reviews and financial planning

Leadership, Capability Building, and Change Adoption

• Build and lead a team of inventory planners, analysts and optimization specialists; deploy comprehensive onboarding, training and development programs in alignment with GSC global programs

• Partner with the Demand Intelligence, Production & Capacity Intelligence, IBP Intelligence, and Supply Planning Data Intelligence
  leads, as well as Finance, to align inventory plans with production, demand and cash targets

• Build an inclusive, high-performing team culture that develops inventory planning, analytics, and optimization talent while supporting cross-functional career growth across Global Supply Chain and Pfizer Global Supply
  

Basic Qualifications

• Applicant must have a bachelor's degree with at least 12 years of​ experience in pharmaceutical supply chain, inventory management, supply planning, or related operational planning roles; OR a master's degree with at least 10+ years of experience; OR​ a PhD with 7+ years of experience
• 5+ years of leadership experience in inventory management, supply planning, supply chain analytics, or global/regional planning transformation

• Deep expertise in inventory optimization methods, including multi-echelon inventory optimization, safety stock modeling, statistical forecasting, and scenario planning

• Experience with planning and optimization platforms, such as SAP, Kinaxis, or equivalent, and modern analytics environments

• Strong financial acumen, including working capital, excess and obsolete inventory reserves, write-off accounting, and inventory cash-flow dynamics

• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders across geographies, functions, and operating levels

• Strong digital acumen, including practical use of AI-enabled tools and standard Microsoft applications
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree (MBA/MS) in Supply Chain, Operations Research, Engineering, Finance or related field

• Extended supply chain experience in other functions beyond inventory/planning, inclusive of areas such as manufacturing, quality or procurement

• Proven track record leading cross-functional initiatives that materially reduced inventory cost or write-offs while protecting service

• Experience with advanced digital technologies including AI and their application to supply chain transformation

• Sound knowledge of IMEx principles and the leadership ecosystem

• Experience of organizational design / transformation; Supply Chain education and professional qualifications (e.g., APICS/ASCM)

NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS

Global role requiring flexibility to work across time zones (Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific) for planning cycles, governance forums and tiered IBP reviews.

Ability to travel domestically and internationally for internal and external meetings – approximately 10–20% of role (higher in Year 1 during organization stand-up).

Last date to apply: October 28, 2026

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $214,900.00 to $358,100.00. In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 22.5% of the base salary and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program. We offer comprehensive and generous benefits and programs to help our colleagues lead healthy lives and to support each of life’s moments. Benefits offered include a 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions and an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution, paid vacation, holiday and personal days, paid caregiver/parental and medical leave, and health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage. Learn more at Pfizer Candidate Site – U.S. Benefits | (uscandidates.mypfizerbenefits.com). Pfizer compensation structures and benefit packages are aligned based on the location of hire. The United States salary range provided does not apply to Tampa, FL or any location outside of the United States.

This role is posted in multiple locations. If you are applying for the role in an secondary job posting location where pay transparency regulations apply, your Talent Advisor will share the local pay information with you during the first interview.

Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.

Candidates must be authorized to be employed in the U.S. by any employer.

U.S. work visa sponsorship (such as TN, O-1, H-1B, etc.) is not available for this role now or in the future.

To learn more about acceptable and prohibited uses of AI during the recruitment process, please review our candidate AI-use guidelines available on Pfizer Careers.

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A career at Pfizer offers opportunity, ownership and impact.

All over the world, Pfizer colleagues work together to positively impact health for everyone, everywhere. Our colleagues have the opportunity to grow and develop a career that offers both individual and company success; be part of an ownership culture that values diversity and where all colleagues are energized and engaged; and the ability to impact the health and lives of millions of people. Pfizer, a global leader in the bio pharmaceutical industry, is continuously seeking top talent who are inspired by our purpose to innovate to bring therapies to patients that significantly improve their lives.