Commercial Contracts Senior Manager

ROLE SUMMARY,

Our external commercial environment continues to change significantly and rapidly, centralizing NHS and Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) decision making and placing significant emphasis on meeting clinical challenges, maximizing supply resilience, delivering environmental sustainability, and maximizing the commercial effectiveness of the NHS and DHSC.

These significant advances in the NHS/DHSC’s commercial effectiveness and the introduction of tangible environmental sustainability efforts are being enacted through various forms of commercial agreements such as tenders, contracts, Patient Access Schemes (PASs), and outcomes-based agreements (OBAs).

In order to ensure our One Pfizer business maximises this opportunity to deliver optimal contracting capability and executional excellence in this evolving commercial environment, we are recruiting for a critical Commercial Contracts Senior Manager position, reporting to the UK Commercial Tenders & Contracts Director.

The Commercial Contracts Senior Manager will perform a significant and strategic internal and external tendering, contracting and executional excellence role, to influence externally with senior national-level commercial and contracting customers and stakeholders, and to collaborate internally with strategic commercial colleagues across all functions, to contribute significantly to the development of successful commercial and marketing strategies for Pfizer UK.

The Commercial Contracts Senior Manager will collaborate with internal colleagues such as the Commercial Tenders & Contracts Director, to build external customer partnerships aligned with contracting and supply resilience-related engagement with key DHSC and NHSE stakeholders, designed to ensure Pfizer’s contracting and supply resilience strategies are highly valuable and as effective as possible which in turn will contribute significantly to patient access to Pfizer medicines.

The role will also lead specific projects within the Commercial Excellence & Operations directorate, requiring collaboration with all teams and the CE&O LT.

The role will require successful collaboration with our Global Tender & Contract colleagues to maximise the digital resources of GTCS (Global Tender & Contract System) and the significant AI benefits of GTCS Prometheus.

This role requires a strategic, independent thinker, matrix leader who can be a critical part of Pfizer UK’s evolution to Contracting and Executional Excellence, enabling the delivery of this key capability for One Pfizer via the Commercial Excellence & Operations platform.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

Be a critical valued partner to all cross functional colleagues, enabling and role modelling collective advantage and executional excellence both internally and externally.

Role model our Purpose, Values & Behaviours to ensure that our Culture is diverse & inclusive where everyone can thrive. A growth orientated mindset demonstrating courageous thinking, thoughtful risk taking & a commitment to excellence.

Collaborate cross-functionally and strategically with all functions to continually develop innovative tender and contract solutions that will ensure the future commercial effectiveness of our BU portfolios and Pfizer UK’s overall performance.

SME and Business Partner/Point of Contact for TA Colleagues, incorporating:

• Tenders
• Innovative Contracts

CCT Operational Activities Leadership (requiring a good degree of data/excel analytical skills), incorporating:

• Complex Rebates oversight
• Quarterly Contract Reviews in partnership with Finance
• Completion of the Annual UKHCDO Haemophilia Tender Report
• Pfizer Lead for DHSC DASH portal
• Pfizer sustainability credentials in partnership with CSR colleagues

Project Leadership & Executional Excellence Lead (requiring a good degree of process automation/AI and analytical capability), specifically:

• GTCS OP Revenue Submissions
• Pricing Governance in partnership with A&A colleagues
• NHS Private Wings implementation
• Retail Net Pricing
• Global GTCS T&C Enhancement
• CCT Digital Transformation (tendertool, rebates, price error detection and others tbc)
• CCT activities streamlining - lead CCT resourcing resilience, working with the Commercial Tenders & Contracts Director to continually review CCT roles and tasks to maximise efficiencies and effectiveness, optimise balance of workload and accurately align functions and tasks within CCT and/or with other teams within CE&O or the GSC, TA’s.

Data & Analytics, Insights

• CCT Team performance dashboard
• GTCS data accuracy and submission
• tendertool – pricing and information/data governance

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Business Skills required:

• Strategic, independent thinking
• Creative thinking
• Influencing
• Matrix leadership
• Commercial understanding and acumen
• Stakeholder management & collaborative working
• Understanding of the purpose of Pfizer commercial and non-commercial functions.
• Project planning and management skills.
• Systems and data literate.

Business Experience:

• Environment, business, and customer insight with an understanding of the NHS tender and contract environment (policies, initiatives and needs).
• Prior experience in developing value propositions and communication for internal and external audiences
• Demonstrate a breadth of diverse project management experiences with an ability to lead strategically
• Successful track record of cross-functional working.

Competencies:

• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to self-start
• Must be able to flex and adapt rapidly to new situations
• Experience of successful creative thinking to deliver innovative solutions to problems
• Organisational sensitivity
• Strong project and organizational skills with an attention to detail.
• Critical / Analytical thinking.
• Persuasive oral and written communication skills – influencing internally

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Good healthcare and tender/contract environment knowledge

PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS

• Learning agility
• Creative thinker
• Independent thinker
• Courage
• Excellence

Work Location Assignment: Hybrid

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.

Flexibility  

We aim to create a trusting, flexible workplace culture which encourages employees to achieve work life harmony, attracts talent and enables everyone to be their best working self. Let’s start the conversation!  

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 Confident

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and we encourage you to put your best self forward with the knowledge and trust that we will make any reasonable adjustments necessary to support your application and future career. Our mission is unleashing the power of our people, especially those with unique superpowers. Your journey with Pfizer starts here!

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