Senior Director, International Vaccines Portfolio Strategy and AI-Enabled Medical Excellence

ROLE SUMMARY

You will define and integrate portfolio strategy, evidence generation priorities, medical analytics, and digital innovation across the International Vaccines Medical Affairs organization.

You will serve as the primary strategic partner to the VP, International Vaccines Medical Affairs Lead, helping transform Medical Affairs into a more data-driven, insight-led, and AI-enabled organization. You will provide portfolio-wide leadership across inline and pipeline vaccine assets, aligning Global Medical strategies with International market needs, evidence generation, organizational priorities, and public health objectives.

You will establish governance frameworks for portfolio prioritization, resource allocation, evidence investments, performance monitoring, and innovation initiatives while leveraging AI, advanced analytics, and digital capabilities to strengthen organizational effectiveness and scientific impact.

As a member of the International Medical Leadership Team, you will drive strategic planning, portfolio excellence, organizational transformation, predictive insights, and adoption of future-state Medical Affairs capabilities to maximize patient, stakeholder, and public health outcomes across International Developed Markets and Emerging Markets.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategic Portfolio Leadership and Governance

• Help the development, integration, and execution of International Vaccines Medical Affairs strategy across all inline and pipeline vaccine assets.
• Collaborate with the establish portfolio governance mechanisms supporting prioritization of countries, assets, medical investments, evidence generation activities, and organizational resources.
• Drive long-range portfolio planning, including annual operating plans, multi-year strategy development, risk assessments, scenario planning, and investment prioritization.

• Provide strategic recommendations to senior leadership regarding portfolio opportunities, scientific priorities, evidence-generation investments, organizational design, and future capability development.

• Serve as a strategic advisor to the VP, International Vaccines Medical Affairs Lead and support executive-level decision making through data-driven portfolio insights and performance reviews..

Evidence Generation Strategy and Scientific Insights

• Help the development of an integrated International Evidence Generation strategy across all vaccine assets.
• Identify and prioritize evidence gaps across burden of disease, vaccine effectiveness, epidemiology, safety, health outcomes, implementation science, health systems research, and public health value.
• Partner with Global Medical Affairs, Epidemiology, Real World Evidence, Clinical Research, and Commercial colleagues to optimize evidence-generation investments and maximize scientific impact.
• Establish evidence-generation governance processes and lead prioritization of epidemiological, observational, effectiveness, outcomes research, and policy-focused studies.
• Ensure evidence generated across International markets supports vaccine recommendations, policy development, product differentiation, market access activities, and public health decision making.

Medical Analytics and Performance Excellence

• Develop and implement portfolio-wide performance measurement frameworks and executive dashboards that track medical impact, operational execution, evidence-generation outcomes, and strategic objective achievement.
• Integrate epidemiological data, healthcare system information, public health trends, scientific intelligence, market dynamics, and competitive insights into portfolio planning processes.
• Help the development of predictive analytics models supporting resource allocation, portfolio prioritization, launch readiness, evidence planning, and strategic decision making.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that improve organizational effectiveness, transparency, accountability, and performance across International Medical Affairs.
• Support executive reviews through generation of integrated scientific, strategic, operational, and portfolio insights.

AI-Enabled Medical Affairs and Digital Transformation

• Develop and implement a multi-year vision for AI-enabled Medical Affairs across the International Vaccines organization.
• Identify opportunities to leverage artificial intelligence, machine learning, advanced analytics, automation technologies, and digital innovation to improve sc…