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Pfizer

Makes cancer drugs, vaccines and other medicines

Administrative Assistant - Controllers

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/24/2026Deadline 10/29/26
$22.25 - $37.09/hr
Mid
Bachelor's
Tampa, FL, USA
In PersonOnsite in Tampa with periodic travel to the Memphis site; 10% travel.
Administrative & Executive AssistanceExecutive Support
No H1B Sponsorship

About the job

Requirements
  • A high school diploma or GED is required.
  • At least 4 years of progressively responsible executive administrative experience supporting Vice President-level or more senior leaders is required, reduced to 2 years for candidates with a bachelor's degree.
  • Advanced skill in Microsoft 365, including Outlook delegate and calendar management, Teams, SharePoint, PowerPoint, and Excel features such as lookups, pivot tables, and reconciliations, is required.
  • Experience managing complex calendars across multiple time zones, domestic and international travel, and multi-day leadership meetings or events is required.
  • Demonstrated judgment and discretion handling highly confidential business and people information is required.
  • Strong written communication skills to draft executive and site-wide communications ready to send with minimal edits are required.
  • Ability to work onsite in Tampa, Florida, flex hours to support regional time zones, and travel 10% to Memphis and leadership meetings is required.
  • Workday report access, Tririga access, and a signed confidentiality attestation are required.
Responsibilities
  • Own designated Leadership Team members' calendars, with delegated authority to book, move, and decline meetings for senior stakeholders.
  • Run the leadership operating rhythm, including recurring one-to-ones, monthly leadership forums, site organization-update sessions, colleague chat sessions, and skip-level meetings across locations.
  • Coordinate governance meetings with external parties, including external auditor operational reviews and decision committees.
  • Support integration of newly absorbed teams through colleague sessions, organization announcements, and leadership communications.
  • Act as mailbox delegate and send communications on behalf of designated Leadership Team members, including site-wide invitations and announcements.
  • Draft, proof, and distribute leadership communications, including survey-result messages and site-specific updates.
  • Gather and prepare human resources and organization documents, including role descriptions, job-level comparisons, and organization-chart inputs.
  • Prepare designated Leadership Team members' expense reports, manage corporate card payments and professional memberships; approval remains with the Vice President's manager.
  • Plan domestic and international travel for designated Leadership Team members, including flights, hotels, ground transportation, and site-visit itineraries.
  • Plan and run leadership team face-to-face meetings at global sites, including agendas, logistics decks, transfers, attendee communications, and onsite coordination.
  • Host executive and senior-leader visits to Tampa and Memphis, including room bookings, attendee lists, dining arrangements, and hotel room blocks with contract deadlines.
  • Organize leadership dinners, global and site town halls, award-nominee luncheons, and retirement and farewell events.
  • Coordinate event vendors, including venues, catering, and hotels, through Procurement and approved channels; purchase orders are raised and contracts executed by authorized signatories.
  • Partner with designated site leaders and local teams to coordinate colleague engagement, community-building, and site culture activities.
  • Support recurring site programs, recognition activities, leadership events, communications, and colleague resource group initiatives based on local needs.
  • Coordinate volunteers, event planning, logistics, participation tracking, and follow-up for site-specific programs.
  • Adapt and share engagement practices across supported locations using virtual and onsite formats.
  • Act as liaison to the onsite GWE team for space reservations, catering, and audiovisual setup for events.
  • Support space planning, site audits, compliance items, and vendor issues.
  • Manage the visitor and guest experience for executive and external visitors at both sites.
  • Support Tampa crisis-management planning by scheduling monthly Crisis Management Team meetings and assisting with coordination.
  • Develop and publish newsletters and other communications for supported sites in partnership with site leaders and local teams.
  • Co-maintain site digital platforms in partnership with relevant local teams.
  • Manage distribution lists, Teams channels, and Viva Engage communities.
  • Keep digital content current, consistent, and accessible across supported channels.
  • Produce site headcount, new-hire, and attrition reporting.
  • Reconcile Workday against Tririga monthly to support space and workforce reporting.
  • Provide data for organization-chart updates and governance-structure reporting.
  • Track participation and outcomes for site events and engagement programs.
  • Prepare data and slides for town halls and executive visits.
  • Support budget reporting as needed, including monthly variance analysis, forecasting, and accrual inputs; the role does not own a budget.
  • Support purchase order and cost tracking and help resolve invoice issues for in-scope activities.
  • Maintain timely and accurate supporting documentation for event and operating expenses.
Desired Qualifications
  • A bachelor's degree in business, communications, or a related field is preferred.
  • Experience in pharmaceutical, life sciences, or another regulated environment, or in a finance, accounting, or global business services organization, is preferred.
  • Experience with Workday reporting, Tririga or another workplace-management system, ServiceNow, expense and travel tools, and Viva Engage or Teams administration is preferred.
  • Experience running colleague engagement or site community programs, including volunteer networks and recognition events, is preferred.
  • Working knowledge of purchase orders, accruals, and variance tracking is preferred.
  • Curiosity and fluency with AI productivity tools, and a record of simplifying recurring work, are preferred.

About the company

Pfizer discovers, makes, and sells prescription medicines and vaccines for patients, doctors, and governments worldwide, with large businesses in vaccines, cancer, heart disease, and rare diseases. In 2020, its COVID-19 shot, developed with German partner BioNTech, became the first COVID-19 vaccine authorized in the United States. Its scientists find drug candidates and run clinical trials to prove they are safe and effective, and Pfizer then manufactures approved products in its own plants, earning most of its money from patented drugs before cheaper generic copies arrive. Pfizer was founded in 1849 as a chemicals business in Brooklyn and is based in New York City.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

1849

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What believers are saying

  • Newer drugs carry the business: launched and acquired products grew 18% operationally in Pfizer's August 2026 quarterly report.
  • The outlook improved: in August 2026, Pfizer raised its 2026 revenue guidance to $60.5 billion to $62.5 billion.
  • Vaccine scientists get room to grow: Pfizer's $470 million Pearl River, New York research expansion is designed for 370 workers.

What critics are saying

  • Expect more site cuts: in November 2025, Pfizer moved to shrink Swiss staff from about 300 to roughly 70.
  • Generics will erase sales: Pfizer expects patent losses to cut $17 billion to $18 billion of yearly revenue through 2028.
  • Pfizer is chasing obesity leaders: Metsera's monthly shot showed 12.3% weight loss at 28 weeks in February 2026 data.

What makes Pfizer unique

  • Pfizer bought its way into cancer: its Seagen buyout added antibody-drug conjugates, which carry chemotherapy straight to tumors.
  • Pfizer is betting on monthly obesity shots: Metsera's berobenatide is dosed once a month, unlike weekly Wegovy and Zepbound.
  • Pfizer leans on one partnered heart drug: blood thinner Eliquis, sold with Bristol Myers Squibb, brings about 14% of revenue.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • 401(k) Company Match
  • Paid Vacation
  • Paid Sick Leave
  • Paid Holidays
  • Hybrid Work Options
  • Relocation Assistance

Growth & Insights and Company News

6 month growth

-3%

1 year growth

-2%

2 year growth

-2%
Yahoo Finance
Oct 22nd, 2026
Pfizer's 5.7% yield signals risk: dividends took 108% of free cash flow vs Merck's 66%

Merck's dividend looks safer than Pfizer's, despite Pfizer's higher yield, according to a 24/7 Wall St. comparison. Pfizer yields about 5.7% against Merck's 2.2%. In 2025, Pfizer's dividends used 108% of free cash flow, while Merck's used 66%. In the first half of 2026, Merck's free cash flow covered 174% of its payout; Pfizer's covered about 51%. Merck has raised its quarterly dividend 39% since 2020, to $0.85. Pfizer's rose 13% and has been flat at $0.43 since January 2025. Pfizer is cheaper, at about 10 times 2026 earnings against Merck's 17. Pfizer targets a return to growth from 2029, while Merck's newer drugs are already selling.

Yahoo Finance
Oct 21st, 2026
Pfizer announces layoffs at Rocky Mount and Sanford sites, but gives no numbers

Pfizer has announced layoffs at its Rocky Mount and Sanford facilities in North Carolina, as part of a push to improve efficiency. It told employees of the cuts on Tuesday but did not say how many jobs will go, when, or in which departments. Rocky Mount makes sterile injectables, while Sanford focuses on vaccines and advanced biologics, including gene therapies. "Headcount reductions are a part of this initiative," Pfizer said, adding that it will give affected staff support services. "If indeed this happens, it's going to affect those families," said David Farris, president and chief executive officer of the Rocky Mount Area Chamber of Commerce. The impact on local economies, he said, depends on the number laid off. As of Wednesday afternoon, no Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notice had been filed with the state.

Yahoo Finance
Oct 19th, 2026
Five low-beta dividend stocks: Pfizer yields 5.83%, Coca-Cola raises payout since 1999

Five defensive dividend stocks offer income with less volatility than the broader market, according to a 24/7 Wall St. analysis. All five have a beta well below 1, meaning they have historically moved less than the market. Pfizer leads with a forward yield of 5.83% at $29.49 a share. AT&T yields 4.77% at $23.27, and its $1.11 dividend uses about 42% of 2026 free cash flow guidance of $18B+. Debt of $144B is its main risk. Dominion Energy yields 4.24%, while Coca-Cola and Colgate-Palmolive each yield 2.27%. Coca-Cola has raised its dividend every year since 1999, and Colgate's next ex-dividend date is October 20, 2026.

Yahoo Finance
Oct 15th, 2026
GSK beats Pfizer as dividend stock: 39% payout vs 89% of free cash flow

GSK looks the better dividend stock than Pfizer, according to a comparison of the two drugmakers, which both face major patent losses before 2030. Pfizer yields 6.3% and GSK 4.1%. Over the twelve months to June 2026, Pfizer paid out 89% of its free cash flow in dividends ($9.79 billion of $10.98 billion), against 39% at GSK (£2.67 billion of £6.90 billion). Pfizer's chief executive officer, Albert Bourla, said the dividend will be maintained even in "the most stretched scenarios." Pfizer raised its 2026 revenue guidance to $60.5 billion to $62.5 billion. GSK raised its dividend 17.6% in fiscal 2025 after an earlier cut, and Q2 2026 sales rose 5%. Its main risk is debt: net debt rose to £22 billion after the Nuvalent acquisition.

Yahoo Finance
Oct 14th, 2026
Pfizer's 6% dividend pays investors to wait as oncology pipeline drives growth beyond COVID-19

Pfizer offers a dividend yield of just over 6% while it builds growth beyond its COVID-19 products. The drugmaker declared a quarterly dividend of $0.43 in June 2026, its 351st consecutive quarterly payment. In the second quarter, revenue from launched and acquired products rose 18% year over year. Pfizer raised the midpoint of its full-year guidance, helped by stronger non-COVID sales from drugs such as Eliquis, Padcev, and Vyndaqel. Oncology is the next focus. Pfizer is investing in antibody-drug conjugates and bispecific antibodies, and it entered a global collaboration with Innovent Biologics covering 12 early-stage cancer programs. Not every experimental drug will succeed, but a broader pipeline improves the odds. If new medicines work, the share price could rise on top of the dividend income.