Job Description

ROLE SUMMARY
The Project Leader role is a USA/MA based role and is responsible for building and executing innovative project strategies for 1 or more projects that will focus on identifying and developing scientific and technological solutions for validating and qualifying novel digital endpoints to measure the impact of therapeutic interventions across the enterprise. The Project Leader will lead a multidisciplinary project team and is accountable for progression of clinical methodological studies utilizing digital devices/sensors and advanced analytics. The Project Lead will interact with key internal and external stakeholders, collaborate with individuals and teams across research and development

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

* Exhibits substantial scientific and operational bandwidth simultaneously leading up to 2 projects ranging across different therapeutic areas and stages of development from Phase 1 through commercialization.

* Responsible for championing innovative scientific and technical strategies to deliver differentiated solutions for client teams.

* Exhibits significant learning agility and build deep knowledge around disease biology, biomedical engineering or data analytics for the programs they lead.

* Responsible for determining the most effective technical or analytical solution for a given project considering cost, technical and operational feasibility and time to delivery.

* Leverages experience to not only lead the project internally, but also collaborate with partners in other units within Pfizer or in the external academic, medical and technology community to identify and advance their project(s).

* Manages investment risk in individual projects through early identification of key questions, the development of a clear technical, clinical and experimental plan to build confidence in the approach and ability to ultimately deliver the required solution.

* Identifies major operational and logistical risks and develop effective mitigation options.

* Inspires strategic and operational excellence from team members in a matrixed organization.

* Coordinates with client research or development teams to ensure alignment on the project objectives and deliverables.

* Demonstrated ability to be an effective communicator; keeping leadership, partners and team members well informed of strategy and progress and will also be able to effectively represent projects to governance organizations, external advisors and potential partners.

* Contributes to the broader Project Leader community through sharing best-practice and may mentor and coach other project leaders as required.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

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.

* Candidate will have PhD in life sciences, mathematics or engineering.

* Expertise in mathematical modeling encompassing model design, algorithm development and implementation.

* Background in developing models, utilizing mathematics, signal processing, and data extraction.

* Experience in leading clinical studies and complex study teams.

* Ten years related experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

* The idea candidate will have PhD in in Electrical Engineering with 10 or more years in acoustic and voice analysis.

* Experience in design & development of user facing software solutions (web-based or app-based) for the collection of patient data.

* Experience developing requirements for digital solutions and/or device component selection.

* Capable of leading team of internal or external data scientists in the selection of voice metrics.

* Capable of developing code extraction solutions for voice metrics using signal processing techniques.

* Capable of guiding the data science team in the development of machine learning models to process voice and determine the most appropriate approach to advance projects and evaluate new technologies and methods.

PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS

* Ability to perform mathematical calculations and ability to perform complex data analysis.

NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS

* May require some travel (<10 %).

Other Job Details:

* Eligible for Relocation Package: YES
* Eligible for Employee Referral Bonus: YES

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