Novartis

Director

• Lead U.S. launch strategy for a Neuromuscular Rare Disease asset
• Partner with Executive Director Marketing Strategy to develop a cohesive and integrated brand marketing strategy
• Establish brand strategy and create engaging brand-centered experiences
• Work with Customer Experience Planning and Optimization, Media COE and Agency of Record to deliver orchestrated strategy and integrated campaigns
• Implement best in class digital marketing strategies that align to brand goals and maximize business results
• Foster a high performing team that proactively and effectively interface across key functions to achieve the product strategies and objectives
• Support and deliver an integrated plan for the brand to achieve the Product strategy and objectives

Director, Brand Lead – Neuromuscular Disease

Marketing

• Partner with the Director, Marketing Strategy, to develop a cohesive and integrated brand marketing strategy and campaign grounded in customer insight for a new launch
• Establish brand-relevant behavior-based strategies, create engaging and relevant content and concepts for adaptation into personalized and tailored experiences
• Share and embed knowledge on best practices to engage HCPs and patients and change behavior across the full brand lifecycle
• Implement best in class professional promotion and digital marketing strategies that align to brand goals and maximize business results.
• Ensure HCP and Patient Personal Promotion and Digital plans are appropriately implemented and optimized.
• Support and deliver an integrated plan for the brand to achieve the Product strategy and objectives; define resourcing required and managing the allocated budget for HCPs, collaborating effectively across strategic partners including Novartis Patient Support and Communications and Engagement
• Drive excellence in developing the assets and ensure a holistic ecosystem of channels that deliver impact and engagement to enable adaptation across the end-end experience, partnering closely with the Customer Experience Planning and Optimization team
• Drive the understanding of market conditions and competitive readiness. Provide business requirements and input into selecting the agency (AoR) for brand marketing and partner with Operations to maximize agency relationships.

AD, Marketing Strategy

• Lead U.S. launch strategy for a Neuromuscular Rare Disease asset
• Partner across insights, customer experience, content, and media teams to translate deep human insights into integrated strategies
• Drive creative excellence and campaign effectiveness by shaping brand strategy, validating messaging and concepts
• Implement best in class digital marketing strategies
• Foster a high performing team that proactively interfaces across key functions to achieve product strategies and objectives
• Drive creative excellence partnering closely with the Content Lab & Customer Experience Planning and Optimization team

Director, Brand Lead – Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

• Partner with the Director, Marketing Strategy, to develop a cohesive and integrated brand marketing strategy and campaign grounded in customer insight for a new launch
• Establish brand-relevant behavior-based strategies, create engaging and relevant content and concepts for adaptation into personalized and tailored experiences
• Share and embed knowledge on best practices to engage HCPs and patients and change behavior across the full brand lifecycle
• Implement best in class professional promotion and digital marketing strategies that align to brand goals and maximize business results
• Ensure HCP, Patient Personal Promotion and Digital plans are appropriately implemented and optimized.
• Support and deliver an integrated plan for the brand to achieve the Product strategy and objectives; define resourcing required and managing the allocated budget for HCPs, collaborating effectively across strategic partners including Novartis Patient Support and Communications and Engagement
• Drive excellence in developing the assets and ensure a holistic ecosystem of channels that deliver impact and engagement to enable adaptation across the end-end experience, partnering closely with the Customer Experience Planning and Optimization team
• Drive the understanding of market conditions and competitive readiness. Provide business requirements and input into selecting the agency (AoR) for brand marketing and partner with Operations to maximize agency relationships

AD, Marketing Strategy – Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Events

• Develop and execute US Medical CV pipeline and CV prevention strategies
• Ensure delivery of development activities across all compounds related to the disease area(s)
• Ensure effective team dynamics, performance, prioritization, and communication across multidisciplinary team
• Act as key point of contact with US Medical Affairs Leadership team and Global teams
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with counterparts in cross-functional and Global Line Functions
• Accountable for elaborating and establishing strategic plan activities and timelines for US Medical Affairs CV pipeline
• Partner with external experts in disease area(s) to gain insights
• Proactively identify issues and potential bottlenecks
• Lead analysis of present and future disease projections
• Drive development of strategy documents, risk log, and phase transition tollgates

Executive Director, Medical Team Leader – Cardiovascular Pipeline and Prevention

Clinical Operations

• Accountable for the day-to-day planning, executing and reporting, of assigned Global Drug Development (GDD) studies
• Supports SSO Study Start-up Managers in the development of country/cluster/hub study execution plans and timeline commitments
• Proactively identifies risk and opportunities for the assigned studies within the country/cluster/hub and develops respective mitigation plans
• Drives the conduct of the study to ensure all study operational aspects are on track
• Ensures recruitment targets are met and reviews enrollment at the site level
• Oversees local study team activities to achieve study timelines and quality execution
• Maintains oversight of country/cluster/hub level data management activities
• Coordinates the study handover process with CRAs and their managers
• Conducts or coordinates training, as needed, for CRAs to support site readiness to recruit and study execution.

SSO Clinical Project Manager

Manager

• Assist the Associate Director, Systems Training with creating product programs and system curricula
• Conduct trainings using adult learning principles to enhance agent competency and knowledge retention
• Ensure high-quality delivery of training through various methods such as live and virtual facilitation
• Execute pull-through opportunities and provide refresher trainings for curricula
• Implement competency models, needs assessments, simulations, and certifications
• Demonstrate subject matter and technical expertise in the assigned function
• Maintain up-to-date trainings that emphasize compliance reporting requirements
• Collaborate with many individuals across NPS and PSC leaders

Manager, Programs and System Training

• Maintain and improve customer (HCP & Account) targeting strategy for all Novartis field teams
• Improve overall targeting methods by identifying and propagating the most up-to-date, effective, and efficient approaches within the team
• Recommend priority accounts / HCPs for field force engagement based on various factors like reimbursement trends, access positioning, network influence, historic responsiveness, brand strategy, competitive pressures, in-depth understanding of the local healthcare ecosystem, etc.
• Address specific account and HCP needs while also adhering to compliance guidelines
• Devise the call plan for accounts / HCP to balance workload across field force, while also catering to each account stakeholder’s unique needs and business objectives
• Support quarterly targeting and field NBA review with key stakeholders
• Support CRM and Field operations to ensure targeting and field NBAs are successfully implemented
• Work with Launch I&A team’s best practices to develop launch targeting and field NBA ahead of disease state education as well as product approval
• Provide insights on prioritization of accounts / HCPs for field force engagement based on various factors like reimbursement trends, access positioning, depth understanding of the local healthcare ecosystem, etc.
• Implement Next Best Action models across core marketing and field functions to drive better engagement with patients and HCPs
• Work with I&A marketing analytics team to ensure NBA provides a coordinated customer experience
• Coordinate targeting & NBA strategy across all field functions to drive a better customer experience
• Work with AI/Data science team to develop an NBA decision engine
• Develop a feedback mechanism to gather insights from the field to push for continuous improvement

Director, Integrated Field Targeting – Rare Disease

Pricing Analyst

• Develops account specific and portfolio contract strategies in line with Business Unit sales goals
• Drive strategic account development integrating deeper and broader with large accounts
• Develops pricing, contracting and channel strategies for optimal patient access and profitability
• Responsible for the strategic and financial evaluation of potential contracting efforts
• Support the development of market access strategies for inline and pipeline products

Director, Channel & Pricing Strategy

Program Manager

• Lead, coach and motivate a dedicated team of Case Managers
• Manage all aspects of Patient Support Center program operations
• Form strong partnerships with Central Operations functions
• Collaborate with Performance, Quality, and Excellence (PQE)
• Schedule coaching, huddles, and other sessions to positively impact overall performance
• Responsible for identifying and reporting adverse events

Associate Director, Program Management – Neuromuscular

• Functioning as the key point of contact for US and Global product teams, participating in all relevant product meetings and ensuring that other Market Access functions are involved and present as appropriate
• Ensuring the US Leadership Team is well-informed of product opportunities and challenges at any given time
• Socializing US market access product strategies as appropriate with US and Global Product Leads and Executive Leadership
• Developing an integrated 3- to 5-year Market Access product plan, which includes integration of short- and long-term access strategies in an annual Brand Planning processes
• Engaging with the Integrating Marketing and Customer Engagement Organizations to ensure that we are working efficiently, and market access strategies are seamlessly executed upon
• Partnering with Market Access Acct Management and Pricing & Channel Strategy to ensure that annual forecasts are accurate and reflect the latest market events
• Partnering with brand and other Market Access teams to secure annual budgets and ensure tactical plans support the Market Access product strategies.
• Responsible for managing multiple budgets and deliverables, including organizing interim project read-outs to ensure cross-functional alignment and ensuring deliverables do not exceed allocated budget
• Working closely and engaging with Legal, Compliance, Brand and Marketing teams to ensure tactics are aligned and implemented in an expeditious and compliant manner
• Mastering the NVS Material Approval Process, including FUSE platform, compliance with pharma/FDA marketing policies, and vendor payment systems
• Oversee development of critical market research including development of qualitative and quantitative areas of study, and determining fundamental go-to-market principles to achieve optimal product commercialization
• Manage vendor RFP process and ensuring contracting compliance

Director, Market Access Strategy – Neuroscience

• Translate priority rare disease business questions into an integrated data strategy roadmap (sourcing, enrichment, decommissioning) with clear sequencing, dependencies, and outcomes.
• Lead cross-functional alignment on data needs, definitions, and success measures; establish fit-for-purpose data standards and minimum metadata to enable portfolio visibility and reuse.
• Partner with Data Partnerships and Procurement stakeholders to inform vendor evaluations, data acquisition approaches, and ongoing portfolio optimization (including contract/renewal inputs as applicable).
• Coordinate delivery across Strategy, Platforms & Transformation and business teams by managing risks, issues, and interlocks; drive adoption of agreed ways of working and ensure timely decision-making.
• Provide regular, concise updates to senior stakeholders on progress, value delivered, and trade-offs; recommend course corrections based on data, insights, and changing business priorities.
• Ensure data strategy activities comply with applicable policies, data privacy requirements, and relevant regulations.

Associate Director – Data Strategy, Neuroscience

• Collaborate cross-functionally in the collection and organization of data for market research projects, focusing on HCP market perception and patient feedback
• Support the gathering of data on patient attitudes and perceptions of Novartis products and patient support programs related to their TA
• Provide initial analysis and summaries of market research data to support the execution team's strategic initiatives
• Compile reports on payer needs, pricing strategies, and market access barriers for review by the execution team
• Facilitate communication between the execution team and external vendors to ensure research projects align with business needs
• Coordinate meetings and workshops with internal teams and external partners to discuss research findings and strategies
• Assist in the documentation of research findings and insights to support internal functions and strategic planning
• Support the development of standardized templates for research instrument design and analysis
• Track progress on various research initiatives and provide regular updates to the execution team
• Assist in the preparation of performance reports and dashboards to support decision-making

Associate Director, Market Research – Neuroscience

Product Manager

• Design and implement the US medical communications strategy supporting product launches, lifecycle management, and scientific engagement.
• Define and execute publication strategies, including manuscripts, abstracts, posters, and scientific congress presentations.
• Co‑create the scientific communications platform and core scientific narratives to guide consistent, high‑impact messaging.
• Oversee development of scientifically accurate medical content across education programs, digital channels, symposia, MSL tools, and congresses.
• Ensure consistency and alignment of medical messaging across all communication channels and materials.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Medical Affairs, Regulatory, Clinical Development, and Commercial partners across the organization.
• Serve as the US Medical Affairs single point of contact to the Novartis Corporate Center for content development.
• Partner with external agencies, key opinion leaders, and scientific experts to strengthen relevance and impact.
• Ensure all materials meet regulatory requirements, company policies, and industry publication guidelines (e.g., GPP, ICMJE).
• Lead, mentor, and develop medical writers and communication specialists, driving quality, compliance, and timely delivery.

Director, HEOR Product Lead, Neuroscience

Strategy

• lead the creation, implementation, orchestration and measurement of the integrated product strategies for an indication of a product within a given therapeutic area in the US
• contribute to the key decision making for maximizing the impact of the product under their remit while actively and appropriately managing resource allocation across multiple teams
• partner closely with functional heads for decision-making of resource allocation to deliver the most accelerated impact for the product