Responsibilities

• Oversee the design, implementation, and operational excellence of enterprise and divisional early talent programs—including internships, co-ops, and rotational opportunities.
• In partnership with Divisional Early talent leads build effective partnerships with universities, colleges, and other educational institutions.
• Represent Pfizer at career fairs, university events, and early-talent industry forums as Pfizer's representative when it matters.
• Develop and monitor program metrics, regularly assessing and refining processes to boost effectiveness and improve outcomes.
• Collaborate with leaders across business functions to align early talent programs with workforce needs.
• Drive branding and outreach initiatives to promote the organization as an employer of choice for early talent.
• Inspire and lead a team, manage program budgets and resources with excellence and accountability.
• Own the employer brand and ensure best candidate experience across all candidate touchpoints: careers site, job postings, social, campus materials, etc.
• Run recruitment marketing campaigns from first impression through application, for both early talent and experienced-hire audiences.
• Own GEO (how Pfizer's employer content shows up in AI-driven search) alongside the more familiar SEO/SEM work on the careers site and job listings.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required and 8+ years in talent acquisition, early talent/campus recruiting, employer branding, or recruitment marketing, including experience in a large, matrixed enterprise.
• Successful track record of developing, running or scaling a large-scale internship or early talent program.
• Experience managing employer brand and recruitment marketing campaigns, including digital/paid channels; familiarity with SEO and emerging GEO/AI-search practices strongly preferred.
• People leadership experience, including managing managers or senior individual contributors.
• Experience coordinating across a matrixed or divisional structure to drive consistency without direct authority over all stakeholders.

Preferred

• Advanced degree in HR, Marketing, Business, or related field a plus.
• Strategic thinker who can also operate at execution level — comfortable owning both the roadmap and the details of a campus event or a campaign brief.
• Strong stakeholder management; able to align Divisional and Enterprise priorities without creating friction.
• Comfortable making decisions off funnel metrics, campaign analytics, and program KPIs
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to represent the brand externally and translate strategy for senior leadership.
• Familiarity with modern recruitment marketing and search technology (ATS, CRM, programmatic ad platforms, GEO/SEO tools).

Benefits

• 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.