Director, Contract Development

Use Your Power for Purpose At Pfizer, our focus is on patients and understanding the critical role our medicines play to produce better health outcomes. As a cross-functional team of experts, we create and execute comprehensive market access strategies through the integration of pricing and reimbursement, health technology assessment, evidence-based medicine review, and health economic modeling activities. Your expertise and innovative approach will enhance the value of our medicines and the impact on patient outcomes. What You Will Achieve The Director, Contract Development is a senior individual contributor within the Global Hospital & Biosimilars (GH&B) U.S. Commercial Contracting & Rebate Operations organization. This role leads the drafting, negotiation, and enterprise-wide governance of contract language, templates, and terms and conditions supporting institutional customer segments, including Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs), Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs), hospitals, alternate sites of care, trade, and retail customers. This is a senior individual contributor role with no direct people management responsibilities. The Director, Contract Development partners closely with the Director, Contract Strategy to translate approved contracting strategies into executable contract language, and works closely with Contract Management, Rebate Operations, Account Management, Portfolio, Pricing & Commercial Operations, Government Pricing, Legal, Digital, and other cross-functional stakeholders to deliver market-responsive, compliant, and risk-managed contract language that balances commercial objectives, customer value, operational feasibility, and compliance requirements. The role serves as the senior technical expert and mentor for Contract Development, operating at the highest levels of autonomy in drafting, negotiating, and shaping contract language, including for the organization's most complex and highest-value customer relationships. This role uses discretion to determine appropriate escalation of final contract language, positions, and risk decisions to the Director/Team Lead, Contract Strategy and Development. This position plays a critical role in enabling access to essential hospital and biosimilar therapies through effective, compliant, and well-crafted contracting.

Contract Development Partner with the Director, Contract Strategy to translate approved contracting strategies into executable, negotiated contract language for assigned institutional customers. Lead the drafting, negotiation, and execution of high-value, highly complex agreements in support of GH&B U.S. Commercial strategies. Serve as the senior contract language expert for the organization's most complex, highest-value customer relationships, partnering with the Director, Contract Strategy on account strategy. Lead the ongoing development, governance, and maintenance of contract templates, standard clauses, and agreement language, ensuring consistency and compliance across customer segments, partnering with Legal to enable scalable execution. Drive innovation in contract language and constructs that create competitive advantage, assessing and managing legal and business risk. Lead critical initiatives, including new template development and risk assessment, for new customer segments and contracting channels, setting direction for how Contract Development scales into new areas. Data, Analytics & Risk Assessment Lead the early-risk identification framework, converting cross-functional input from Contract Strategy, Contract Management, Rebate Operations, Account Management, Portfolio, Pricing & Commercial Operations, Government Pricing, and Legal into executive-level risk recommendations. Lead risk evaluation of contract language and terms, including legal, financial, and operational components across the full range of contracting scenarios, recommending risk tolerance and mitigation approach. Drive development of analytical