Manager - Strategy - Pharmaceuticals

About the Role:

The role will have cross-franchise/ cross-functional impact to generate growth opportunities for current portfolio and drive future business beyond the current business model. Some of these initiatives are transformational in nature.

The role provides an opportunity to work closely with the CP & Leadership teams on critical Strategic projects. Since the need is to continuously observe, understand and act on new trends related to customers, market and innovation happening within and out of pharmaceutical industry, the incumbent will have the opportunity to spearhead the efforts.

Key Responsibilities

- Primary responsibility is to support strategic business projects for Novartis Group, the CEO and the Executive Committee, with the aim of maximizing economic value and securing future competitive advantage. Support Senior Strategy Managers and Directors in projects around key Novartis products in major markets, that -Deliver substantially greater outcome improvement than from the product alone

- Deliver substantially greater financial rewards for Novartis based on this. Manage Novartis Strategy Community-The project manager maintains the contact with the divisional strategy teams and plans/organizes regular update meetings. In addition, the project manager also leads small projects at any time from project scoping, creating content and managing of stakeholders to generate insights and prepare outputs which enable informed decisions.

- Prepare regular exchange between community members, e.g. independent organization of the annual Strategy offsite meeting (including agenda, speakers, etc). Ensure transparent communication across the divisional Strategy teams.

- Support the managers and directors in project work and provide expert consultation during all project phases. Align closely with stakeholders at country, functional and global level as defined by the requirements of the different projects and initiatives.

- Independently monitor milestones of the projects as well as completion. Assists Head of Strategy on larger strategy projects across units and functions as well as countries. Take ownership for subparts of the overall project and ensure completion of these. Proactively apply project management methodologies. Provide change management support and appropriate communications for the implementation of projects and initiatives.

- Reporting of technical complaints / adverse events / special case scenarios related to Novartis products within 24 hours of receipt -Distribution of marketing samples (where applicable). Support business transformation projects across functions to ensure efficiency & effectiveness, analyze business data to derive insights that help make business choices, support enhancement of the Commercial excellence & digital functions Work closely with the CP & LT on strategic Projects of the enterprise

- Successfully lead a small project to final output, feedback from internal and external stakeholders on quality of deliverable -Performance against annual objectives and milestones as in workplan -Feedback from internal and external partners regarding interaction, prioritization, time management, etc.

- Business Mindset Operational Excellence Stakeholder Engagement Project Excellence Continuous Learning (Dyn. Knowledge Development) Being resilient Digital & Technology Savvy Organizational Savvy Interpersonal Savvy Breakthrough Analysis Healthcare systems thinking

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: :

We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Role Requirements :

Essential Requirements:

- Operations Management and Execution Project Management Collaborating across boundaries Geographic Scope Major Change English Communicating with different customer groups Managing resources Organizing and planning Analyzing stakeholder requirements

- Modeling and Quantifying Business and Investment Cases with High Uncertainty Engineer, MBA with total 2-4 years of experience preferred.

Desirable Requirements: Strategy experience

Why Novartis: Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people's lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us!

Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

You'll receive: You can find everything you need to know about our benefits and rewards in the Novartis Life Handbook. https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion: Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.

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