Sr Manager, R&D Product Analyst

ROLE SUMMARY
Pfizer's commitment to creating breakthroughs that change patients' lives is deeply embedded in our culture as a science-driven and patient-focused company. Central to this commitment is our use of digital technologies, AI, data, and analytics, which drive innovation across our organization.
The Sr Manager, R&D Product Analyst within the Forward Impact Engineering & Impact Team (FIT) at Pfizer Digital is a critical role responsible for defining, designing, and creating AI and products to support Pfizer's R&D objectives. This includes examining customer needs with respect to business processes and data, identifying requirements, and ensuring intended value of products is achieved. This role will develop and maintain strong partnerships with product managers, business and technical teams to design, prototype, and deliver high-quality, secure, innovative solutions based on overarching strategies and roadmaps. Effectively translating stakeholder needs into AI and data solutions that enhance user experiences and drive effective decision making is the cornerstone of success for this role.
The Sr Manager, R&D Product Analyst responsibilities include developing subject matter expertise in various business areas, foundational data, application, AI, and platform functionality to transform business use cases into requirements, designs, and solutions. This role will collaborate with Product Managers to translate roadmaps into value propositions, impact assessments, and recommendations that support defining priorities based on overarching goals. This includes driving the discovery, ideation, and problem definition process in alignment with business priorities, presenting multiple solutions, and evaluating platforms to meet user needs.
The Sr Manager, R&D Product Analyst leads product design and analysis. This includes leveraging HCD (human centered design) principles to develop proof of concepts and wireframes, source to target mapping, data profiling, quality verification, research, and schema design. Additionally, collaborating with engineering teams to understand standards and technical constraints will be key to designing solutions that are effective, scalable, and secure. This requires strong critical thinking, technical acumen, human centered design and agile delivery expertise. This role is involved at every phase of a product lifecycle ensuring the successful delivery of the product vision.
Ability to operate within fast‑moving, multidisciplinary teams where discovery, design, prototyping, and evaluation occur within days or weeks instead of months. Strong comfort with rapid experimentation, iterative learning, and pivoting based on new information or technical constraints. Hands-on involvement across the entire problem-to-solution cycle: understanding needs, designing approaches, validating feasibility, building prototypes, and assessing impact. This role is responsible for developing and maintaining strong relationships with multi-disciplinary teams, including Product Managers, technical teams, Digital and Technology leaders, R&D leaders, and technology vendors. The Product Analyst will also be responsible for developing and delivering content to support communications and stakeholder management related to the product portfolio they are responsible for.
Strong user experience, technical acumen, and effective communication skills are critical in this role. This includes creating and delivering executive level design, requirements, and product roadmap deliverables that are easily leveraged by the team
The successful candidate for this role will have a deep understanding of AI and product analysis discipline, HCD and UX principles, agile delivery and technical execution, with a proven track record of delivering impactful solutions in a complex organizational environment.
Ideation & Problem Definition

• In close partnership with Product Managers and business stakeholders, support discovery, ideation, and achieving definition of ready to support backlog grooming and work prioritization.
• Apply Human Centered Design principles such as persona development, experience diagramming, stakeholder mapping, and impact matrixing to support discovery, ideation, and capturing business value.
• Develop user stories and proposals that effectively communicate business value of data-related efforts.
• Evaluate and advise on opportunities for continuous improvement of product design and delivery.
• Lead EDA (exploratory data analysis) as part of product discovery and work intake.
• In close collaboration with business and technical teams, apply deep functional domain expertise and strong methodologies to guide solution options analysis, with consideration of technical and non-technical implications and trade-offs.
• Work with Product Managers and business stakeholders to translate product roadmaps into value propositions and impact assessments that effectively capture voice of the customer.
• In collaboration with Product Managers, provide recommendations to senior management to support defining priorities based on overarching corporate goals, strategies, and objectives.

Product Design

• Approach stakeholder engagement with curiosity to understand downstream value being created by operationalizing data and translate that knowledge back to technical teams.
• Lead discussions with business stakeholders and generate associated outputs that translate product design to value.
• Contribute to and execute on framework for incorporating requirements, design, and user stories into agile teams.
• Adhere to and provide recommendations to optimize Product Documentation framework that will evolve based on business needs, compliance requirements and changing technologies.
• Apply UX and HCD thinking principles to product requirements, development, and delivery.
• Understand current and potential technical tools, capabilities, system, and platform boundaries to design effective and scalable solutions.
• Effectively engage in feedback loops with various stakeholders, including business and development teams.
• Develop proof of concepts and wireframes as needed to support design and development.
• Coordinate and lead prototype development, participate in user acceptance reviews and demos, partner with technical leads on creation of design documents and artifacts.
• Develop feature files to support testing and ensure adherence to compliance framework.
• Lead analysis on agile teams, including source to target mapping, data profiling, quality verification, research, and schema design.
• Conduct application, platform, and/or integration impact assessments based on data, technology, and business logic changes.
• Support defining baseline and target business architectures with objective of modelling intersections of information and data.
• Collaborate with your peers to thread fabric of how work across product roadmaps is connected to support knowledge sharing, gain efficiencies, and enhance insights.
• Provide UAT support and ensure product design and documentation adheres to compliance guardrails where applicable.

Engagement & Communications

• Foster a culture of creativity, curiosity, inclusion, and excellence.
• Deliver on portfolio value within quarter while partnering with AI & Product Manager to provide forward-looking discovery.
• Collaborate with Product Manager to provide recommendations that inform both backlog prioritization and continuous improvement of existing portfolio of data solutions.
• Partner with Product Managers in development and delivery of content to support communications and stakeholder management throughout product lifecycle.
• Support value-capture of solutions throughout product lifecycle.
• Provide decision making coordination on product design and UX with buy-in from other key stakeholders.
• Assist with development and delivery of content to support communications and stakeholder management.
• Engage with data engineers and developers to effectively execute and iterate on design plans.
• Participate in feedback loops and capture metrics on developer efficiency, velocity.
• Contribute to an active data community where employees are sharing best practices and learning from each other and from industry leaders.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline.
• 7+ years of relevant professional experience. Any design and/or analysis experience, with pharmaceutical or healthcare experience is a strong plus.
• Hands on experience applying HCD principles to enable product lifecycle activities.
• Experience in product design and data & analytics.
• Ability to manage transformation of ideas into solution recommendations and delivery across multiple workstreams.
• Familiarity with reviewing and creating logical and conceptual data models.
• Proven track record of facilitating decision making processes, including leadership presentations.
• Demonstrated success in effectively communicating business value of data related efforts.
• Experience leading stakeholder engagement, building partnerships and collaboration across divers business teams and facilitating the process of defining project goals and requirements.
• Passion for creating user-centric digital and interactive experiences.
• Agile/Lean Development knowledge, training or experience.
• Strong communication with great written and verbal skills.
• Experience working in cross-functional teams combining design, engineering, AI, data, and product disciplines.
• Comfortable working directly with end users, scientists, and business partners to rapidly understand and document current processes and translate them into actionable requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to adopt and apply AI‑augmented tools to accelerate analysis, prototyping, and delivery.
• Strong ability to thrive in ambiguous, high-velocity environments with evolving goals and limited initial structure.
• Comfortable validating ideas with users early and often, even before full requirements are defined.
• A curious and highly motivated self-starter who can work effectively across cross-functional teams and can independently drive progress toward completion with proper planning and management.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Certification in Agile and Scrum development practices is a plus.
• Ability to rapidly produce low‑ to mid‑fidelity prototypes (AI-assisted or otherwise) to evaluate assumptions and align stakeholders.

CULTURE / TEAMWORK

• Excited by pushing the boundaries of innovation within R&D and experimenting with emerging tools, technologies, and methods.
• Embraces a mindset of continuous learning, iteration, and rapid improvement.

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.
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