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Our goal is to build a world-class research team of dedicated scientists committed to developing a deep mechanistic understanding of the metabolic pathways underlying disease pathogenesis.\nAs a senior scientific leader and member of the obesity discovery biology team, this individual will play a significant role in shaping the scientific direction for the obesity therapeutic area and influencing broader IMRU research strategy and portfolio priorities. The individual will help create and drive discovery research strategy across multiple programs, including target ideation, validation, translational biomarker strategy, hypothesis testing, and early clinical development within the IMRU obesity portfolio.\nThe successful candidate will lead through both direct team leadership and influence across multidisciplinary partners, helping align scientific decisions across discovery biology, translational sciences, clinical, computational, and external collaborators. The individual will identify emerging therapeutic opportunities, advance portfolio programs with scientific rigor and urgency, and represent research strategies to internal leadership and the external scientific community. Knowledge and experience in the study of metabolic pathways are essential, and familiarity with the pathophysiology of dysmetabolic states would be advantageous. Strong self-motivation, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to lead, mentor, and build scientific capability in a highly collaborative environment are essential.\nROLE RESPONSIBILITIES:\nShape and influence the scientific direction for discovery research programs aligned with IMRU therapeutic area and portfolio strategy.\nApply creative thinking and scientific expertise to formulate strategies that identify, prioritize, and validate therapeutic targets in key areas of interest to the Internal Medicine Research Unit.\nMaintain awareness of cutting-edge scientific and technical developments in preclinical-to-clinical translation and apply these insights to advance portfolio programs and identify emerging opportunities.\nGuide research priorities across multiple programs by integrating mechanistic biology, translational feasibility, biomarker strategy, and portfolio impact.\nConceptualize, design, and oversee rigorous in vivo, ex vivo, and in vitro studies, including experimental design, data collection, interpretation, and presentation.\nQuantify and translate experimental results to advance understanding of how metabolic pathways and complex physiological systems are altered by disease and respond to therapeutic intervention.\nLead a research team of lab heads and scientists, providing supervision, coaching, and mentorship to develop skills essential to rigorous scientific research and drug discovery execution.\nLead through influence across multidisciplinary teams and key stakeholders, driving scientific alignment and decision-making where accountability extends beyond direct reporting lines.\nBuild and facilitate strategic collaborations with partners in the academic scientific community, the broader Pfizer network, and external experts to strengthen scientific insight and portfolio impact.\nEstablish external scientific leadership through peer-reviewed publications, scientific presentations, conference engagement, and thought leadership in relevant areas of metabolic disease biology.\nPresent and represent research programs, portfolio recommendations, and scientific strategy to Pfizer leadership and governance forums.\nEnsure that all research and discovery work is conducted with the highest quality and ethical standards and in accordance with relevant regulatory, QC, and compliance guidelines.\nBASIC QUALIFICATIONS:\nPhD, MD, or MD/PhD with postdoctoral research experience and 8+ years of experience in an industry or academic setting. \nSuccessful track record of scientific achievement through high-impact publications, presentations, and recognized contributions to the scientific community.\nDemonstrated ability to critically review complex data, think creatively, formulate novel hypotheses, and translate scientific insight into actionable discovery strategy.\nDeep expertise in metabolism and/or signaling pathways relevant to obesity (CNS neurocircuitry or peripheral metabolism), with the ability to apply mechanistic insight to therapeutic target identification and validation.\nExperience performing and/or leading in vitro, in vivo, and ex vivo experiments relevant to metabolic disease biology.\nDemonstrated ability to influence multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders, including the ability to drive decisions and align priorities without direct authority.\nDemonstrated ability to contribute to and advance multiple projects in parallel with learning agility, scientific rigor, and portfolio-level judgment.\nExperience developing scientific talent through mentorship, coaching, and building organizational capability.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to represent research strategy and portfolio recommendations to scientific, governance, and leadership audiences.\nCandidate 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.\nNON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS:\nSome travel to scientific conferences and other Pfizer sites expected.\nADDITIONAL DETAILS:\nLast date to apply is November 18, 2026\nWork Location Assignment: This is a hybrid role requiring you to live within commuting distance and work on-site an average of 2.5 days per week.\nThe 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.Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.\nSunshine Act\nPfizer 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.\nEEO & Employment Eligibility\nPfizer 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.\nPfizer endeavors to makewww.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 . 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.\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.\nResearch and Development","description_format":"text","description_chars":9427,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"phd","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Relocation assistance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":true,"industries":["Prescription Drugs","Oncology Therapeutics","Infectious Disease Therapeutics"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-12T20:55:37Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"adverts_offering_sponsorship_24m":114,"sanctioned_now":false,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 47 · green card filings: 2","filings_12m":47,"filings_prev_12m":91,"green_card_filings_12m":2,"median_offered_wage_usd":127296,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-11-12T07:36:15+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)","Alion: sponsorship offered in the employer's own job adverts (24 months)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":13,"reasons":["conf:10","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-13T21:43:36Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":271500,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/pfizer-associate-research-fellow","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/pfizer-associate-research-fellow.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-13T21:43:36Z","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":43336,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-14T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"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-associate-research-fellow"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"free","price":{"credits":0,"usd":0},"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-associate-research-fellow"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"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-associate-research-fellow"},{"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-associate-research-fellow\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fpfizer-associate-research-fellow"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":4197293}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"pfizer.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":4197293},"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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