Strategic Investment Lead, AI-Driven Markets

Pfizer; Fatih; On-site; TRY 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Pfizer seeks a strategic leader to own the direction of the Pfizer International investment system, co-develop AI-native roadmaps, and define the investment thesis that guides capital toward key opportunities. You will own intake, governance, and memos for the Investment Committee, ensuring a coherent strategic voice across markets.

You will drive end-to-end strategy development, collaboration with senior market leaders, and the translation of strategy into actionable investment agendas, with a

Qualifications

• Extensive relevant experience in commercial strategy, portfolio strategy, corporate strategy, investment governance, venture capital, business development or a related field.
• Exceptional pattern recognition across markets, cases and functions, with the ability to turn scattered signals into a coherent investment thesis.
• Credible in senior leadership conversations without extensive preparation: therapeutic area leads, country managers, country presidents and cluster presidents.
• Ability to understand different go-to-market models, market archetypes and healthcare systems, and to distinguish common strategic direction from necessary local variation.
• Strong commercial and strategic judgement. Able to connect market shifts, business needs and technology possibilities, and distinguish what a decision would actually change from what a proposal claims it would change.
• Outcome-oriented rather than tool-oriented. Interested in AI as a catalyst for change and equally able to conclude that technology is not the answer.
• Able to hold a position in front of the Committee, challenge unsupported enthusiasm and use precedent to keep the portfolio strategically coherent.
• Highly structured in strategy development, governance and documentation; experienced in leading complex work through a matrix without formal authority.

Responsibilities

• Co-develop market-level AI-native roadmaps with country presidents, cluster presidents, therapeutic area leaders and other senior market stakeholders. Translate the common AI-native ambition into a clear view of the capabilities and investment priorities relevant to each market archetype and context.
• Own and continuously evolve the investment thesis for International Commercial Digital & AI. Define the strategic arenas, market needs and portfolio white spaces where the organisation should seek opportunities and deploy capital, using evidence from markets, the external environment and portfolio performance.
• Convert the strategy into an active opportunity agenda. Identify where the organisation should commission internal proposals, ask Ecosystem & Partnerships to source external options, or challenge markets and functions to address a strategic gap rather than waiting for ideas to enter the funnel.
• Own intake and triage across market-referred, open internal submission and externally generated opportunities, and maintain one portfolio backlog.
• Produce the investment memo for every proposal that reaches the Committee: hypothesis, expected impact, investment, accountable owner, principal risks and the result that would stop it.
• Write the recommendation, counterfactual and open questions on every memo, across internal and external paths, so the Committee receives one coherent strategic voice across the portfolio.
• Run the Committee governance: investment memos circulated 1 week in advance, decision log and follow-through on conditions attached to approval.
• Maintain institutional memory in a system rather than in individuals: every decision and decline with reasoning, searchable and fed back into the investment thesis and future triage.
• Identify patterns across markets, functions, submissions and decisions, and convert them into changes in strategic direction, portfolio priorities or commissioned opportunities.
• Own end-to-end programme and project management for strategy development and the investment process: plan the market-roadmap and gate cycles, manage dependencies, surface risks, elevate unresolved issues, track decisions to closure and ensure accountable owners complete agreed actions.

Skills

Commercial strategy

Portfolio strategy

Investment governance

Venture capital

Executive leadership

Job description

Pfizer seeks a strategic leader to own the direction of the Pfizer International investment system, co-develop AI-native roadmaps, and define the investment thesis that guides capital toward key opportunities. You will own intake, governance, and memos for the Investment Committee, ensuring a coherent strategic voice across markets.

You will drive end-to-end strategy development, collaboration with senior market leaders, and the translation of strategy into actionable investment agendas, with a