ROLE SUMMARY As the AI Scaling Lead, you will play a critical role in accelerating AI adoption and value realization across GH&B global manufacturing network. Acting as the bridge between site innovation, network priorities, and enterprise transformation, you will lead the identification, development, scaling, and sustainment of AI-enabled solutions that improve operational performance, productivity, quality, and colleague experience. The Lead will connect Sites, AI Squads, Site AI Champions, and Network resources through disciplined, sprint-based execution, ensuring successful solutions are rapidly replicated, standardized, and embedded across the network. The role requires a unique blend of manufacturing expertise, strategic thinking, change leadership, and AI/digital acumen to help build an AI-native organization. This role will be instrumental in helping GH&B realize its vision of becoming an AI-native manufacturing organization by transforming successful global and local innovations into scalable enterprise capabilities that deliver measurable value. What You Will Achieve Lead and prioritize AI Squad initiatives across GH&B, ensuring delivery against business priorities and measurable outcomes. Identify, evaluate, and champion high-value AI opportunities in partnership with global and site teams. Accelerate the replication of proven AI solutions across sites, reducing duplication and maximizing enterprise impact. Establish scalable playbooks, standards, and best practices that enable rapid adoption and sustainable value creation. Partner closely with Site AI Champions and business leaders to drive engagement, adoption, and capability building. Advance AI fluency and change adoption across the network, helping colleagues confidently leverage AI tools and ways of working. Monitor value realization, adoption metrics, and implementation effectiveness while proactively removing barriers to success. Foster a culture of experimentation, learning, and continuous improvement through agile, sprint-based delivery. Serve as a trusted advisor and connector between local innovation efforts and enterprise AI governance, strategy, and standards. Contribute to building an AI-native manufacturing organization that delivers competitive advantage through scalable digital solutions. ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES Focus Areas Squad Leadership & Opportunity Development: Lead cross-functional AI Squads through sprint-based delivery, holding teams accountable for outcomes and timelines. Work with Squads and Site Teams to surface and shape new AI opportunities with clear business impact. Assess opportunities based on strategic alignment, business value, scalability, and implementation readiness. Prioritize and sequence squad capacity across sites based on impact and readiness. Facilitate decision making, stakeholder alignment, and issue resolution across multiple sites and functions. Ensure solutions are developed with sustainability, scalability, compliance, and user adoption in mind. Site-to-network Replication & Local Adoption Identify site-grown solutions ready for replication and own their rollout across the network. Codify proven solutions into playbooks and standards for fast, consistent reuse. Align replicated solutions with network standards and governance, in partnership with the AI Transformation Office. Partner with Site AI Champions to tailor rollout to local context without diluting the standard. Gather site feedback to spot adoption barriers early. Turn recurring barriers into improvements to governance, training, or documentation. Standardize and harmonize approaches to maximize impact across sites. Implement Enterprise and PGS Solution Adoption Lead AI Squads through sprint-based delivery of new AI solutions, holding teams accountable for outcomes and timelines. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS Bachelor's degree with at least 8 years of experience; OR a master's degree with at least 7 years of experience; OR a PhD with 5+ years of experience. Proven track record leading site-based manufacturing, automation, or supply chain operations. Ability to influence and align stakeholders across global, cross-functional, and matrixed organizations, including senior leaders. Experience in pharmaceutical or life sciences manufacturing within aregulated environment. Experience bridging operations with digital and AI-enabled capabilities. Experience leading cross-functional teams through sprint-based or agile delivery. Strong program management skills, with experience prioritizing and delivering multiple initiatives at once. Adaptable and resourceful in a fast-changing, ambiguous environment. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS Experience working across matrixed regional structures. Experience with AI, advanced analytics, or automation applied to manufacturing operations. Lean, Six Sigma, IMEx or Innovation Coach leadership experience. Experience building playbooks or standards for scaling solutions across multiple sites. Experience as a Site AI Champion or similar grassroots capability-building role. Candidate demonstrates a breadth of diverse leadership experiences and capabilities including: the ability to influence and collaborate with peers, develop and coach others, oversee and guide the work of other colleagues to achieve meaningful outcomes and create business impact. NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS Up to 25%. Some travel across manufacturing sites required. Occasional non-standard work hours to support global network. Other job details: Work Location Assignment: On Premise Last Date to Apply: 10/28/2026 The annual base salary for this position ranges from $162,900.00 to $271,500.00. In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 20.0% 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. Sunshine Act Pfizer reports payments and other transfers of value to health care providers as required by federal and state transparency laws and implementing regulations. These laws and regulations require Pfizer to provide government agencies with information such as a health care provider’s name, address and the type of payments or other value received, generally for public disclosure. Subject to further legal review and statutory or regulatory clarification, which Pfizer intends to pursue, reimbursement of recruiting expenses for licensed physicians may constitute a reportable transfer of value under the federal transparency law commonly known as the Sunshine Act. Therefore, if you are a licensed physician who incurs recruiting expenses as a result of interviewing with Pfizer that we pay or reimburse, your name, address and the amount of payments made currently will be reported to the government. If you have questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact your Talent Acquisition representative. EEO & Employment Eligibility 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. Pfizer endeavors to make www.pfizer.com/careers accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process and/or interviewing, please email disabilityrecruitment@pfizer.com. This is to be used solely for accommodation requests with respect to the accessibility of our website, online application process and/or interviewing. Requests for any other reason will not be returned. 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. Information & Business Tech 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.

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