Team Leader - Manufacturing (Evergreen)
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Use Your Power for Purpose
Our breakthroughs would not reach the hands of patients without our dedicated pharmaceutical manufacturing team. We rely on agile members who understand the critical impact of their role in Pfizer’s mission. Patients need colleagues like you who take pride in their work and continuously strive to improve outcomes. Your efforts ensure that patients and physicians have timely access to the medicines they need.
What You Will Achieve
In this role, you will:
Manage projects and set objectives, leading people, technology, and financial resources.
Identify and develop innovative process or product improvements, taking calculated risks to achieve results.
Solve complex problems, leveraging experience from various areas as needed.
Manage the performance of direct and indirect reports, supporting team objectives and providing input to senior management.
Partner with leadership to achieve objectives and manage teams, ensuring regulatory compliance and adherence to SOPs and cGMP requirements.
Develop and manage a team of process technicians, optimizing facilities and equipment, and leading the implementation of Lean Tools.
Support the development of SMART Objectives, participate in best practice sharing programs, and manage the performance and training of shift colleagues and contingent staff.
Here Is What You Need (Minimum Requirements)
High school diploma (or equivalent) with 8+ years of experience or associate’s degree with 6+ years of experience or BA/BS with 2+ years of experience or MBA/MS with any years of relevant experience
Strong people management experience in a regulated manufacturing operations environment
Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills
A working knowledge of Upstream/Downstream Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) manufacturing operations
Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced, and goal-driven environment
Strong decision-making capability
Bonus Points If You Have (Preferred Requirements)
Relevant pharmaceutical industry experience
Experience with Lean Tools and their implementation
Excellent organizational and time management skills
Ability to recognize development needs and create opportunities for colleagues
Experience in maintaining regulatory compliance through established programs
Experience using common AI tools, including generative technologies such
as ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot, to support problem solving and enhance
Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.
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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