Global Commercial Strategy Undergraduate in Guildford

Launch readiness responsibilities:

• Keep the team's launch readiness tracker current, follow up on actions and milestones with colleagues, and present short status updates in team meetings.
• Monitor the competitor landscape using publicly available sources (news, publications, clinical trial registries, congress abstracts) and turn it into concise updates for the team.
• Be our day-to-day contact for our competitive intelligence agency, coordinating requests, tracking deliverables and keeping our materials well organised.
• Run the team's monthly calls end to end: scheduling, agendas, pre-reads, notes and follow-up of actions.
• Maintain the team's budget and spend trackers, work with Finance and Procurement on purchase orders and invoices, and flag any variances to the budget owner.
• Help the team prepare for key medical congresses, including EULAR, by supporting creative concept, planning and logistics and helping to capture and share insights afterwards.
• Contribute to brand positioning, messaging and launch materials, bringing fresh ideas and a creative perspective to how we tell the story of the medicine to customers.
• Prepare slides, meeting materials and summaries, and find practical, responsible ways to use AI tools to make the team's day-to-day work simpler and faster.
• In the second half of the year, choose a question the team needs answered and own it from brief to presentation.

What other opportunities and benefits do Pfizer offer?

• Attendance at the EULAR European Congress of Rheumatology with the team, supporting on-site activities and seeing how the latest science is shared with the medical community.
• Cross-functional projects with Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, Market Access and Insights & Analytics.
• Direct exposure to senior leaders across the US and International teams, with opportunities to present your own work.
• Pfizer-led training, including commercial capability-building through Marketing Academy.
• Hands-on experience using AI tools responsibly in a commercial setting.
• Weekly one-to-ones with your line manager, a buddy in the team and a formal mid-year review.
• Pfizer's UK undergraduate network.
• Pfizer offers a diverse and supportive environment with many opportunities to grow.

This role provides a unique opportunity to be part of the launch preparation of a new treatment for people living with a serious and rare condition. As our undergraduate placement, you'll join us as a valued member of our global commercial team, working with experienced colleagues across commercial, medical and market access on the real priorities of a live launch programme.

You’ll start by owning well-defined tasks and, as your confidence and experience grow, take on more. Along the way you’ll build the skills that matter in any business career: organising and coordinating projects, communicating with colleagues and external partners, working with numbers and budgets, researching and summarising information, and working effectively in a global, virtual, cross-functional team. You will also develop core marketing capabilities; understanding customers and the market, shaping how a brand is positioned, and bringing creativity to the way insights and ideas are turned into compelling materials. You will also see first-hand how commercial, medical and access teams work together to prepare a new medicine for launch.

Type of person we are looking for:

• Completing placement as part of University Degree either through Year In Industry/Industrial Placement or Gap Year.
• AI Literate.
• Studying Business, Marketing, Economics, Life Sciences, Pharmacy or a related subject (other disciplines welcome).
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Demonstrable AI fluency.
• Confident using Excel and PowerPoint, and comfortable working with numbers.
• Great written and verbal communication skills.
• Curious and analytical, able to summarise information clearly.
• Ability to identify what is most important and prioritise several tasks accordingly.
• Collaborative mindset, comfortable working in a global, virtual team.
• Shows initiative and is eager to learn and take on new challenges.
• Motivated by Pfizer's purpose: breakthroughs that change patients' lives.

What can I achieve and what will I be accountable for whilst completing a placement at Pfizer?

• Presented your own work to senior leaders across the US and International teams.
• Attended EULAR, Europe's largest rheumatology congress, with the team.
• Owned the competitive intelligence summaries the team relies on to understand the market.
• Developed marketing fundamentals; insight, positioning, messaging and creative development, through Marketing Academy and hands-on work on a live launch.
• Learned how a multi-million launch budget is planned and controlled.
• Built a portfolio of tangible contributions you can talk about in any graduate interview.

By the end of the year, you will have:

Pfizer offers a diverse and supportive environment with many opportunities to grow and develop. This is a great chance to be part of the bigger picture, to understand how the pharmaceutical industry works and the range of careers it offers, and to finish the year with a portfolio of tangible contributions to a live launch programme.

At Pfizer we are a patient centric company, guided by our four values: courage, joy, equity and excellence. Our breakthrough culture lends itself to our dedication to transforming millions of lives.

We aim to create a trusting, flexible workplace culture which encourages employees to achieve work life harmony, attracts talent and enables everyone to be their best working self.

We believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce is crucial to building a successful business. As an employer, Pfizer is committed to celebrating this, in all its forms - allowing for us to be as diverse as the patients and communities we serve. Together, we continue to build a culture that encourages, supports and empowers our employees.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and we encourage you to put your best self forward with the knowledge and trust that we will make any reasonable adjustments necessary to support your application and future career. Our mission is unleashing the power of our people, especially those with unique superpowers. Your journey with Pfizer starts here!