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Role Summary\nThe AI Program & Operation Manager keeps AITO’s AI programs running smoothly - coordinating processes, tracking and documentation across AITO, D&T and business stakeholders, and supporting the CEI/AITleadershipon AI matters. The role runs the operational cadence behind AITO’s AI programs and governance: integrated tracking, SteerCo materials, dependency management and follow-up on decisions and actions.\nThis is a coordination and operations role that moves work through the right processes and forums. It requires strong organization, attention to detail, fluent English and enough understanding of AI to prepare accurate materials, track the right items and communicate clearly across technical and business audiences.\n2. Key Accountabilities\nRun AITO programs and operations - integrated tracking, status updates, action logs and a reliable reporting cadence across AITO, D&T and business stakeholders.\nPrepare SteerCo and governance materials, agendas, minutes and follow-ups, ensuring accuracy, consistency and timeliness.\nGuide AI project teams through AI governance and ramp processes - help them understand requirements, prepare submissions and evidence, navigate review and approval steps, and progress smoothly from intake to ramp and scale.\nCoordinate dependency management across teams and track China-for-Global readiness, International dependencies, acceptance decisions and ownership-transfer milestones.\nSupport China CEI/AIT leadership on AI matters, feeding AITO tracking into the enterprise portfolio view.\nCoordinate intake, funding-gate and review processes - scheduling, documentation, approvals routing and record-keeping.\nMaintain program documentation, trackers, dashboards and shared repositories with version and quality control.\nFollow up on decisions, actions and risks, chasing owners and keeping items moving through the right forums and processes.\nCoordinate approvals and compliance routing with Legal, DPO, Privacy, Risk, Compliance, Finance and Procurement.\n3. Required Capabilities & Competencies\nProgram and project coordination, PMO operations, tracking, documentation and reporting.\nStrong organization, attention to detail, process discipline and follow-through across many parallel items.\nConfident preparation of SteerCo and executive materials, minutes and dependency trackers.\nWorking understanding of AI concepts sufficient to prepare accurate materials and track the right items.\nReliability and service: keeps processes, materials and follow-ups accurate, timely and trusted, collaborating effectively across teams.\nBachelor’s degree or above in Business, Administration, Technology or a related discipline.\n5+ years of relevant experience in PMO, coordination, program support or business operations, 3+ years in the pharmaceutical industry.\nAbility to work across business, technology, data and governance stakeholders in a matrixed environment.\nFluent English and Mandarin, with strong written communication for global and executive audiences.\n4. Key Collaboration\nThe role supports AIT leadership in China, and coordinates across the AIT Acceleration Lead, AIT Value & Performance Lead, Go-to-Market Transformation (GTMx), Digital & Technology (D&T), Global Commercial Analytics(GCA), Commercial Excellence(CE)and business stakeholders. It works closely with approval and control functions - Legal, the Data Protection Officer (DPO), Privacy, Risk, Compliance, Finance and Procurement - on process, approval and routing steps, and liaises with International AIT on dependencies, acceptance decisions and ownership-transfer milestones.\n5. Measures of Success\nAccurate, timely and consistent program tracking, materials and reporting.\nWell-run SteerCo and governance forums with clear minutes, actions and follow-through.\nEffective dependency and milestone tracking, including China-for-Global readiness and ownership transfers.\nPfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.\nTo learn more about acceptable and prohibited uses of AI during the recruitment process, please review our candidate AI-use guidelines available on Pfizer Careers.\nInformation & Business Tech","description_format":"text","description_chars":4600,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"China","iso":"CN","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Prescription Drugs","Oncology Therapeutics","Infectious Disease Therapeutics"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-27T01:14:11Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":63,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.632,"p_room":1,"age_days":2,"expected_fill_days":13,"reasons":["conf:0","stale_co","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-29T05:49:05Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/pfizer-ai-program-operation-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/pfizer-ai-program-operation-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-29T13:54:36Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":20953,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-30T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3480},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3480"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fpfizer-ai-program-operation-manager"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fpfizer-ai-program-operation-manager"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fpfizer-ai-program-operation-manager"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/pfizer-ai-program-operation-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fpfizer-ai-program-operation-manager"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3305610}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"pfizer.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3305610},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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