Summary
Our Development Team is guided by our purpose: to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people's lives.
To do this, we are optimizing and strengthening our processes and ways of working. We are investing in new technologies and building specific therapeutic areas and platform depth and capabilities - all to bring our medicines to patients even faster.
We are seeking key talent, like you, to join us and help give people with disease and their families a brighter future to look forward to.
Apply today and welcome to where we thrive together!
This role will be based in Basel, Switzerland in a hybrid working approach.
About the Role
Major accountabilities:
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- Undertake diagnostics, study and analysis as required, suggest recommendations and drive resultant actions as approved
- Continuously looks for new and better ways to deliver CD agenda
- Prepares content for strategic initiatives on behalf of the Head of Clinical Development/Head Portfolio Strategy & Operations
- Support the streamlining and provide governance co-leadership for the Head Portfolio Strategy and Operations CD, ensuring consistent messaging across various governance forums (DevLT, CD LT)
- Support the build of the CD organization, creating and tracking rigorous and quantifiable objectives and communications; to support CD embedding best in class approaches to clinical development while growing deep therapeutic expertise
- Lead on the benchmarking of CD activities at Novartis vs. peer
Key performance indicators:
- CD KPIs including functional objectives
- Effective cross-functional collaboration to enable CD led initiatives to strengthen Development objectives
- Effective crafting and delivery of CD strategic initiatives
- Optimize the way clinical development delivers the portfolio, including better data quality, shorter timelines to approval, higher phase 3 success rates
Minimum Requirements:
- ≥5 years people and matrix management required
- Global people management experience desirable.
- Strong relationship builder and communicator with experience leading diverse work teams, driving program excellence, engaging functional partners
- Previous work and leadership in international and multidisciplinary drug development teams
- Strong knowledge of drug development strategy, Novartis experience in this area is preferred
- Strong planning and project management skills
- Organizational awareness, including significant experience working cross-functionally and in global teams.
- Fluent in English.
Why Novartis: Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients' lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
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Division
Development
Business Unit
Innovative Medicines
Location
Switzerland
Site
Basel (City)
Company / Legal Entity
C010 (FCRS = CH010) Novartis International AG
Alternative Location 1
London (The Westworks), United Kingdom
Functional Area
Research & Development
Job Type
Full time
Employment Type
Regular
Shift Work
No