About the Role
Leads international trade and market access strategy for the International Division, defining priorities, identifying barriers, and advancing them through diplomatic engagement. Tracks trade policy developments and engages with foreign governments and multilateral institutions to shape policy environments and respond to emerging trade actions.
Responsibilities
- Define and prioritize the International Division's market access and trade agenda across key international markets.
- Identify and triage procurement barriers, IP challenges, and other commercial or trade policy risks.
- Track trade policy developments across foreign markets, anticipating regulatory, legislative, and procurement shifts.
- Engage foreign trade ministries, regulators, and policymakers to shape policy environments and coordinate responses to emerging trade actions, localization pressures, and pricing or reimbursement reforms.
- Advance International Division priorities through coordinated diplomatic engagement with the USPGR team.
- Represent Pfizer with relevant trade associations, business coalitions, and other membership organizations.
- Assess how US trade measures and foreign government responses interact and drive the International Division's action.
- Monitor and maintain high-level engagement with multilateral institutions.
- Commission data, evidence, and third-party engagement to support International advocacy.
Requirements
- Candidate demonstrates a breadth of diverse capabilities including: the ability to influence and collaborate with peers, develop and coach others, oversee and guide the work of external stakeholders to achieve meaningful outcomes and create business impact.
- Minimum 12 years+ international trade policy experience.
- Proven track record of success in government relations, and international biopharmaceutical industries.
- Expertise and demonstrated success in negotiation of trade agreements, trade regulation/legislation.
- Policy expertise with imports, exports, tariffs, country/ministerial-level negotiation/engagement.
- Expert in the economic impact of trade agreements on the bio-pharmaceutical industry.
- Proven success working collaboratively with industry colleagues, including coalition-building, to successfully mobilize stakeholders and shape strategies with external business groups.
- Strong strategic and creative thinker, able to tackle complex issues both strategically and tactically, and develop innovative, results-driven solutions.
- High emotional intelligence and an ability to work under pressure and partner effectively with internal stakeholders.
- Demonstrated success in development/execution of targeted briefings for executive leadership, senior management and business leaders.
- Well organized, highly motivated, innovative, process driven, results oriented.
- Outstanding oral and written communications skills.
- Permanent work authorization in the United States is required.
- U.S. work visa sponsorship is not available for this role now or in the future.
Skills
- International trade policy
- Market access strategy
- Government relations
- Diplomatic engagement
- Trade policy analysis
- Regulatory engagement
- Procurement barrier identification
- Intellectual property (IP) challenge resolution
- Trade agreement negotiation
- Trade regulation/legislation expertise
- Imports/exports
- Tariffs
- Multilateral institution engagement
- Coalition building
- Stakeholder mobilization
- Strategic thinking
- Tactical problem-solving
- Communication skills
Location
- Washington DC
- Belgium - Brussels
- NYHQ
- France - Rives de Paris
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior Director
- 12+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree minimum
- Advanced degree preferred
- Multilingual preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $214,900.00 - $358,100.00
- Bonus target of 22.5% of base salary
- Eligibility for share-based long-term incentive program
Benefits
- 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions
- Additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution
- Paid vacation, holiday, and personal days
- Paid caregiver/parental and medical leave
- Health benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage
About the Company
- Pfizer reports payments and other transfers of value to health care providers as required by federal and state transparency laws.
- Pfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants.
- Pfizer complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.
- Pfizer is an E-Verify employer.
- Pfizer endeavors to make www.pfizer.com/careers accessible to all users.
Equal Opportunity
- Pfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status.
- Pfizer also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA.
- Pfizer is an E-Verify employer.
- This position requires permanent work authorization in the United States.
