Pfizer February / 2013 -2006
Mechanical Engineering Project Developments
• Weiler Label systems (Systech) reject solenoid implementation. And Lasetec validation, Resina Capper, Lakso Filler Allen Bradley panel view 300 installations, Omega Unscrabbler PLC upgrade rungs added.
• Kuka Robot Palletizer and Cyclops wrapper machine servo drives.
• Uhlmann 1040, 2205 car toner and UPS 4 thermo former related machine packaging blisters set up.
• PLC troubleshooting such as PLC-5 and Allen Bradley-Slick 500 and related in outputs and input ladder signals experience such as communicating with PLC Backup and ladder identification Software Rs-linx interface program with Allen Bradley & Omron, Reliance and troubleshooting with input sensors or relays and motor outputs. Ladder diagrams modified consulting blueprints or schematics.
• Troubleshooting with electrical contractors and 3 phase motors and generators and RPM rings were installed with red lion display meter. Variable Frequency Drivers installation and programming.
• Cleaver and Brooks Boilers modification of Control System with overhaul in Touch Screen and deliver al instrumentation inputs to PLC the PID process verified in details for accurate temperatures and signal processing outputs being from 4 to 20 MA and simulating signal for new
Control valves.
• Experience with inductive, capacitive, reflective sensors installation etc.
• Managing price quotes with vendors that arise in parts for projects or ASAP equipment
ProsNEVER PAY GOOD
ConsTHEY CLOSE UP MANY PFIZER SUBSIDIARIES NOT CONSIDERING EMPLOYEES BENEFITS
Project Manager for Clinical Trial and Drug Safety
Led projects as a Technical Project Manager for Infrastructure related projects in support of the Clinical Trial for new Drug Discovery and Submission Environment
Worked closely with FDA Compliance and Regulatory requirements associated for the full SDLC life cycle for applications implementations
Planned and managed global aviation department scheduling s/w project. Implemented via outsourced vendor resources and cross functional teams globally in US, Canada, Singapore & Switzerland in accordance to internal PM methodology. Managed several global Data project implementations simultaneously and served as project manager interfacing with business unit leaders and global infrastructure groups within IT.
Planned, coordinated and reported Pharmacovigilance and Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic results to senior management for Phase 1 and Phase 2 studies, thus allowing for timely decision making in the face of emerging medical issues.
MES and ERP (SAP) – Manufacturing Execution System design, development, testing, validation, documentation and support of manufacturing Execution System
Worked on GxP validation strategies.
Services Continuity for Global Drug Safety/Pharmacovigilance: Worked with Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance to respond to audit and build and test new infrastructure. Applications included ArisG, ArisJ and ARGUS.
Responsibilities included project planning & management, communications, financials, and timelines for database design, data entry, sta
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Executive Administrative Assistant | New York, NY | Sep 21, 2012
Was a great workplace until they begin laying off!
Begin working at Pfizer's New York City headquarters in September 2003. As long as I live I will never forget what was said to me during the hiring process. I had been offered a position after months of interview rounds and had reached the last phase which was the physical exam and drug testing. When I went into Pfizer's employee health the doctor that was conducting the physical exam said to me '"this company treats its employees so good that if you don't give 100% back you feel guilty at the end of the day....people don't leave here, they die here"!
I soon understood why the doctor said that. Upon the completion of the physical exam/drug testing a week later I would be starting to work. A gift basket arrived at my address from the director of the division I would be working for as a welcome to Pfizer gift. Talk about a class act! This was the type of company that we actually looked forward to going to work each day. Half day Fridays for most of the year, state of the art fitness center onsite complete with sauna, childcare onsite for employees that needed emergency childcare, all you can eat lunch buffet ($7.50), a food selection in the cafeteria that would rival a lot of restaurants, ATM banking right in the building, company store where Pfizer's over the counter (Listerine, Benadryl etc.) medication could be purchased at a fraction of the cost of your local drugstore....did I forget to mention that friends/relatives of employees were allowed to shop there too? Then lets
Proshalf day fridays, fitness center, childcare & yearly amusement park outings.
Contract Operations (Pharmaceutical and Consumer) strategies and provided guidance on implementing tactical plans to streamline tasks and save time.
• Collaborated with internal stakeholder groups (Legal, Sales, Brand Marketing, Finance, Compliance, Distribution, Customer Service, Credit, U.S. Pricing, Forecasting, IT, and R&D) ascertaining a solid understanding of practice areas enabling cohesive communication and productive interaction.
• Primary drive of change in educating teams on identifying contract bundle language, directed the development of intuitive proprietary system to assist in tracking contract bundled data. This enabled finance to track and calculate the Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) government pricing calculation and reporting obligations associated with Average Manufacturer Price and Best Price. Directed the development and approved standard operating procedures.
• Managed vendor relationship both contingent workers and Auditors (off and on shore staff).
• Coordinated activities during Pfizer’s acquisition of Wyeth providing transfer of contract knowledge.
• Instrumental in the creations of 70+ business processes and 50+ Job aids/SOP’s supporting contract operations.
• Motivated change and introduced valuable content to our clients via Wyeth’s first contracting intranet site.
• Skillfully negotiated vendor pricing and drove the implementation of PHS 340B Member Match software tool. This identified non-compliance situations, avoided compliance violat
Incredible opportunity to sharpen my Leadership skills. Seeing individuals evolve into world class Team was priceless!
Typical day centered around the development of each representative as well as developing 10 incredibly talented individuals into an extremely effective, dynamic and cohesive high performing Team.
Holding my Team accountable for executing and successfully accomplishing the goals, objectives and imperatives which were created as a Team.
Typically had 4 days in the field and an office day.
Key Learnings:
The faster you develop your people into a Team the easier it is to exceed revenue goals. As a Leader, communicating effectively from the very first day on is key to success. Setting expectations, creating a dynamic culture, identifying and effectively using towering strengths from each person accelerates the Teams effectiveness in key areas such as product and/or disease state knowledge, competitive advantages, networking, handling objectives, effective openers and questions. Lastly, I believe you should have a strong representative who will challenge your decisions relative to strategic initiatives, resource allocation and problem solving keeps my analytical, messaging, targeting and team dynamics skill sets sharp.
The hardest part of the job was balancing the time you must have with your Team and the onslaught of emails, phone calls, messages and the time required to make certain you're not only executing your initiatives. You have to determine the growth, rate of growth and modify plans as necessary. It becomes a challenge when you have 5 products for 5
ProsCoaching and developing your representatives, developing both their strengths and their developmental areas, having the honor to watch them do things they thought impossible, knowing that a drug you have significantly impacts, the patients life, quality of life and families and friends of the patient.
ConsProduct patents. Patent life dictates pricing and employment.
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Human Resources Representative | Carolina, PR | Jul 2, 2014
The company also offered interaction with employees and their families. Summer Family Days were part of the agenda, Christmas Galas, and the site had
At Pfizer Corporation there was no typical day.
As previously mentioned I worked all aspects of Human Resources, from recruting, United Way Campaign--travelling to HQ for training, AAP, New Hire Presentation, among other duties.
I have always said more than any university, my learning experience from the company was priceless. It was during a period of great change for any HR Department, as the Department was no longer an "attached" department of Finance and or Marketing. It was during the time period where federal laws were commencing, (such as AAP, Family Medical Leave Act, Pregnant Mothers, Discrimination Acts, among others). It was the moment of total organization and I was part of that movement.
Due to all the new changes, laws, etc., management of time and employees was of utmost importance. One had to know how to deal with changes, and although this was all new, it was a challenge, a well welcomed challenge.
During my tenure at Pfizer I can say that co-workers were excellent. Up to this date, I have never had problems with any co-worker. As a professional in HR, I have been able to work around even the most difficult people, always bringing out the best in them.
The hardest part of my job was a change in supervisor, whereas my first supervisor was more balanced towards both employees and company; my second sueprvisor was very demanding and along with many changes that were occuring within any HR Department during that time made it somewhat diff
ProsExcellent activities to celebrate company goals, presentation of motivational speakers, presenatation of Company stock option (both as gifts and to purchase). Also, educational aid, making it possible to obtain a college degree with company help.
ConsI honestly cannot find anything wrong with the company.
Poor management, no advancement, boring, and no respect towards contractors.
I'm not even sure where to start. First off, during your interview they are purposely vague about the company culture because it's absolutely non-existent. If you are a "colleague", as they call it, you have access to company benefits such as PTO, medical, and respect. But if you are a contractor you're subjected to whatever garbage benefits your agency offers, which are usually extremely expensive, if any at all. The divide between colleagues and contractors is almost scarily apparent right from the beginning. Being a contractor nothing you say is ever taken seriously and you're practically disposable and treated as such. The "top" management members have horrible communication skills. When an issue happens they are quick to point fingers and gasp in confusion but will seldom leave their offices on a daily basis to actually, you know, manage. They usually do an annual "clean house" which means that every so often they will fire 5-10 contractors for whatever menial reason they may find. Contractors have practically no room for advancement within the company because there's always the claim of a "hiring freeze"; however, when a position magically opens up you already know who will or won't be considered for the position because it's based 25% on qualifications and 75% on favoritism. The position itself is really quite monotonous...You're either doing ECGs, drawing blood, sitting on the computer, or scanning badges in the cafeteria for 8 hours. There's nothing more that contrac
ProsWork/life balance, overtime offered
ConsNo opportunities for advancement, poor communication skills amongst managers, low salary, no respect for contracted employees
Productive yet poor culture, practices, and principles
I enjoyed the work and I excelled quickly. However, the culture and particular consultant that I worked under was a micro-manager and did not allow for lunches, breaks, nor open communication among fellow team members.
I learned how to navigate within a new database and how to work with the procurement team and other licensing departments. I used skills and techniques in order to update, renew, sell and support Pfizer clients and vendors with their newer software launch program.
I was familiar with their software set up for the most part and ticketing system due to the many different applications that I used on a regular basis with my previous place of employment.
I did a great amount of database clean up and worked to update the licensing information and manage the software contracts of the different clients and vendors that worked with and for Pfizer.
The most difficult task of my everyday was overcoming the poor moral of the environment and the level of micro management that existed.
Don't get me wrong.. I can handle some of the toughest scenarios and I have had my fair share of bosses in Corporate America that had some level of micro management. However, this woman and this consultant took it to new extremes. It was unhealthy overall and I should have been more cautious when she said that her turn over was high.
None the less, I respect the nature of the position and I am flattered to have been chosen to work on her team and represent this company. I a
ProsNetworking, New skills Acquired, The Hours, Working with Software Systems and the Exposure
ConsNo Breaks, No lunches, Misleading Culture, Micro Managed and Contract Terms
Pfizer is a great place to work, the management on the other hand is bad, favoritism, gossip, not around when needed, more into the stocks Pfizer offers not the job. I was laid off due to a rumor the group lead told the supervisor. I did not get laid off due to my work ethic, I am a very hard worker. The group leader before he was the leader, called in for 3 months with no work applied for a job he had no business doing got the job, when there was a woman who also applied and was way more qualified was turned down. the group leader that was promoted was promoted to a position he did not know and the woman who had applied moved to a different room and the room I was in was chaotic, no one know what they were doing. the group leader never showed up to work, and when he did he was lazy and did not want to do anything, he always told me I wanted to learn to much, he got mad at me because I wanted to get hired on and move up, instead he talked to a supervisor whom was never there told him he didn't like me, not my work ethic but personal. I was laid off unfair but seeing I was through manpower the management would not talk to me, he would not tell me face to face I was let go, he text me and told hr I was a no call no show.
Pfizer is a wonderful place to work, the management is bad. hr is bad, no one wanted to here me due to lack of communication? I am a very hard worker, I am assertive, dependable, reliable, charismatic, thirst for knowledge, and Pfizer was job I loved, I seen P
Prosgreat work great pay great benifits
Consbad management, lack of knowledge of the employee
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Senior Research Scientist | Princeton, NJ | Aug 15, 2012
Productuve and fun work environment
Involved in the R&D of small molecule kinase inhibitors and protein therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases with a focus on tau biology, APP and its fragments βCTF and αCTF, cholesterol metabolism, and other novel Alzheimer’s targets and animal models.
• Effectively screened 30- 60 compounds each week in cell based assays that identified lead series from in house chemical equity.
• Conducted Caspase, LDH and Tunnel apoptotic assays, as well as cell-titer blue viability assays which determined target and compound toxicity.
• Developed assays that measured total Tau and phosphospecific Tau epitopes as a way to screen for selective kinase inhibitors.
• Generated and selected several cells lines that supported kinase inhibitor program.
• Analyzed the levels of expressed proteins using High-Throughput platforms such as Cellomics to screen chemical equity in an secondary cell based system.
• Studied morphological changes on the microtubule network via Fluorescent Microscopy that determined important epitopes related to disease.
• Measured the levels of kinase activity using an in house cell free FRET assay as a primary screen of chemical equity.
• Designed in house Immunoprecipitation methods which isolated sensitive target proteins.
• Characterized human and rodent tissues via Western Blot and Taqman which quantified differences in protein and RNA from control samples to disease.
• Constructed, managed and cataloged a transgenic animal database through excel.
• During monthly
Empresa lider y con un buen balance vida y trabajo.
Empresa Zoetis es una empresa líder en el mercado farmacéutico Veterinario, su principal fortaleza es que cuenta con capital humano muy diferenciado en el campo, el nivel de preparación que tiene sus equipos principalmente de ventas es muy alto, el portafolio de productos es muy completo y muchos de los programas de salud de las cuentas estratégicas mantienen principalmente nuestros biológicos.
En lo personal hacia la planeación de actividades de acuerdo a los objetivos anuales. Mi trabajo se distribuía 60% actividades administrativas en la oficina, home office y 40% en actividades de campo
En la oficina mis actividades diarias iniciaban con el análisis de ventas en nuestros sitio, documentar trabajo de campo, analisis del avance en el progreso del core curriculum, analisis de los avances en la universidad virtual de los programas asignados, planeación de salidas a campo como coaching a gerentes de distrito y planeación de mis charlas a clientes estratégicos al igual que participaba en reuniones mensuales con el equipo de liderazgo para analizar resultados y avances de estrategias por unidades de negocio.
En esta empresa aprendí a trabajar por objetivos, a enfocarme en las actividades importantes que contribuían al logro de las metas de la empresa, reportaba a la dirección de Learning&Development en US, mi jefa es Colombiana y manteníamos buena comunicación y relación de trabajo. Tenia reuniones o one on one con el country manager y mi jefa cada mes para revisar ava
ProsPrestaciones atractivas
ConsEl sueldo esta en el promedio del mercado
Questions And Answers about Pfizer Inc.
What tips or advice would you give to someone interviewing at Pfizer?
Asked Sep 8, 2016
By all means, take the interview. It is an opportunity to meet the staff, ask questions and learn about the career opportunities and how you might fit into the Pfizer family
Answered Jun 8, 2021
Don't bother at the Pearl River location. They waste your time and are looking for some UNICORN. Immediately during the interviews they trash the employee who left the role, and put you through lengthy long interviews without a smidgen of common decency to follow up. They string you along until they explain in professional speak, they don't like you or any of the candidates that they interviewed, and post the job again.
Answered Apr 3, 2020
What is the work environment and culture like at Pfizer?
Asked Sep 7, 2016
The manufacture of pharmaceuticals requires rigid compliance with procedures. Should a problem occur, it is vital that management be notified immediately of problems. You will never be disciplined for reporting a problem.
Answered Jun 8, 2021
Can be stressful at times. If u one your job or the type that speak up when you someone doing something wrong your labeled as a trouble maker. Keep to yourself and do your job is the best thing to do.
Answered Feb 11, 2018
What is the interview process like at Pfizer?
Asked Jul 7, 2016
Fair and logical
Answered Jun 6, 2020
Interview with a couple of supervisors with no walk through of the facility.
Answered Jan 30, 2020
How long does it take to get hired from start to finish at Pfizer? What are the steps along the way?
Asked Jul 7, 2016
8-10 weeks to receive an official offer and sign your agreement (one HR interview, one interview with representative of the branch you applied for, and one several hour long interview with several people from management).
2-4 weeks extra for them to complete "onboard procedures".
That's a total of 10-14 weeks at earliest before you can begin onsite work. This is for R&D development/analytical area.
Answered Mar 24, 2021
2-4 months right now.
Answered Apr 29, 2019
What is Pfizer sick leave policy? How many sick days do you get per year?
