Comparative Medicine Operation Manager

Pfizer; United States; On-site; USD 99,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Paid vacation

Holiday and personal days

Parental and medical leave

Health benefits

Job summary

Pfizer is seeking a professional to lead a vivarium within the Comparative Medicine team, ensuring animal care and welfare meet regulatory and AAALAC standards. You will collaborate with researchers, manage staff, and drive program improvements across safety, training, and operational metrics.

The role requires advanced degree(s) and supervisory experience, with relocation available and on-site work at Pfizer facilities in the United States.

Qualifications

• Must have supervisory experience and strong technical skills.
• Advanced degrees or certifications with LATG are required or preferred.
• Relavant scientific/animal research background is expected.

Responsibilities

• Manage vivarium to deliver animal care and welfare in compliance with regulations and AAALAC guidelines.
• Interface with research community customers and provide specialized services.
• Collect metrics to optimize resource management and standardize operations; support budgets and procurement.
• Oversee quality assurance programs and occupational health and safety for staff working with research animals.

Skills

Supervisory experience

Technical skills

Education

BS/BA in a relevant field

MA/MBA/MS

PhD LATG certification

Job description

Why Patients Need You

Pfizer's purpose is to deliver breakthroughs that change patients' lives. Research and Development is at the heart of fulfilling Pfizer's purpose as we work to translate advanced science and technologies into the therapies and vaccines that matter most. Whether you are in the discovery sciences, ensuring drug safety and efficacy or supporting clinical trials, you will apply cutting edge design and process development capabilities to accelerate and bring the best in class medicines to patients around the world.

What You Will Achieve

As part of the Comparative Medicine team, you will support the Research & Development site by managing a vivarium to deliver flawless animal care and welfare and will assure the quality of care and the animal facility environment is in compliance with local regulations and AAALAC International guidelines partnering with Research and Development Research Units and Partner lines to facilitate study support. It is your hard work along with innovative ideas and focus that will help in making Pfizer ready to achieve new milestones and help patients across the globe.

How You Will Achieve It

• Assure that the care and welfare of laboratory animals is provided in compliance with local regulations and AAALAC International guidelines.
• Manage and engage animal care and technical staff in the pursuit of flawless animal care and welfare by ensuring adherence to established policies and procedures.
• Support the career and personal development of the animal care and technical staff.
• Assist with a centralized CM training program for research animal care and use for animal care staff, principal investigators and research technicians throughout WRD.
• Participate in the direction of a centralized CM program of occupational health and safety for all individuals having significant contact with research animals.
• Promote a culture of care for animals and enhancing the application of the 3R's to animal care and scientific projects. Contribute to the evaluation of projects involving the use of animals by considering animal welfare as it relates to research.
• Act as the interface with the research community customer and ensure basic to complex specialty technical services are provided.
• Support operational excellence by collecting metrics for efficiently managing resources. Work with CM colleagues at other sites to share practices in managing resources and standardizing operations.
• Responsible for development and implementation of appropriate quality assurance programs, planning and maintenance of operating budgets, purchase of capital equipment and supplies and effective management of physical resources within CM.
• May be required to work under one of the following: The United States Department of Agriculture Animal Welfare Act and associated Regulations and Standards, the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, Good Laboratory Practices, Public Health Service Policy and/or AAALAC accreditation standards.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• BS/BA with 5to 7 years experience OR MA/MBA/MS with 3 to 6 years experience OR PhD with LATG certification required
• Supervisory experience
• Ability to demonstrate level of technical skills and abilities

Nice-to-Have

• CMAR certification preferred
• Supervisory experience in a pharmaceutical setting

NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS

This is an Essential Personnel role: Essential Personnel are defined as the staff that are required to report to their designated work location, to ensure the operation of essential functions or departments during an emergency, as determined by Pfizer, or when the business has suspended operations. There are some individuals who may be required to perform essential services remotely and those individuals will be identified in advance and notified by their supervisors, but in most cases Essential Personnel are required to be on-site during an emergency or suspension of operations.

Other Job Details

• As needed, Ops manager may need to work on weekends.
• Relocation support available
• Work Location Assignment: On Premise

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $99,200.00 to $165,400.00. In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer's Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 12.5% of the base salary and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program.

• 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
• health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage

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