Use Your Power for Purpose
The Director, Candidate Experience role, part of Pfizer’s People Experience division, plays a critical role in shaping and enhancing the experiences of candidates at Pfizer. This role is pivotal in driving our recruitment strategies and ensuring that Pfizer continues to bring in the best and brightest minds in the industry. The Director will be instrumental in creating an inclusive and engaging candidate experience, thus reinforcing Pfizer's reputation as an employer of choice.
Position Summary
This role owns full-cycle recruiting for the U.S. experienced hiring across all Pfizer divisions and functions with a focus on delivering exceptional manager and candidate experience, enabling the company to compete for exceptional scientific, clinical, digital, commercial, and enabling functions talent in an increasingly competitive market. Reporting directly to VP, Candidate Experience, you are a key strategic leader within our Global Candidate Experience team. You will partner closely with the business and people experience leaders to translate business strategy, organizational capability plans, and workforce scenarios into differentiated talent acquisition strategies and provide external talent intelligence, workforce insights, and market analytics that influence enterprise decisions, organizational planning, and long-term capability development.
Key Responsibilities
1. Recruiting Operations & Delivery
- Own full-cycle recruiting delivery for all U.S. experienced-hire roles across functions and business units.
- Set and hold the team to standards for time-to-fill, and quality of hire, candidate and hiring manager satisfaction.
- Build capacity planning that matches recruiter headcount to hiring demand and allows for flexibility.
- Ensure compliant, inclusive hiring practices while enhancing the employer brand and candidate experience
- Drive adoption and optimization of recruiting technologies, enabling enhanced recruiter effectiveness and improved candidate engagement.
2. Business & PX Partnership
- Align hiring priorities with business strategy through partnership with HR Business Partners and business leaders
- Advise leaders on external talent markets, workforce trends, and competitive hiring practices
- Represent recruiting in workforce and talent planning conversations
- Align and influence a complex ecosystem of cross-functional stakeholders to ensure seamless end-to-end hiring processes.
3. Team Leadership
- Grow and develop U.S. recruiting organization
- Build best-in-class capabilities across executive recruiting, strategic sourcing, scientific recruiting, employer branding, recruiting operations, and talent intelligence
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree required; 8+ years in talent acquisition, including experience running full-cycle recruiting at scale across multiple functions.
- People leadership experience managing recruiting managers / senior recruiters
- Experience in a large, matrixed enterprise; pharma/biotech experience is strongly preferred.
- Experience with ATS platforms and recruiting operations/reporting tools.
- Excellent knowledge of OFCCP and other U.S. hiring regulations.
Preferred Qualifications
- Advance Degree a plus
Skills & Attributes
- Proven ability to translate business strategy into talent strategies and optimal hiring models.
- Experience developing and implementing sourcing, branding, and talent attraction strategies.
- Strong track record of building trusted relationships and establishing credibility across stakeholder groups.
- Outstanding communication skills with the ability to influence and engage at all levels of the organization.
- Data-driven mindset with strong analytical capability to drive insights and decision-making.
Other Details
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.
Direct Reports:[~7 direct reports, ~40 total org]
This is an office based role
Last date to apply: September 10, 2027
The annual base salary for this position ranges from $189,200.00 to $315,400.00. In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 22.5% 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
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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.
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