Key Responsibilities:

• Leverages a deep understanding of healthcare industry, global health, health systems and data science, to identify trends that can further drive and shape the data and tech driven health innovations the Novartis Foundation decides to pioneer. Identifies opportunities to further shape NF’s thought leadership in health and care innovation, enabled by data, digital technology and AI.
• Understands complex global health problems and formulates innovative strategies for engaging with experts and thought leaders, and/or build productive alliances to address burning questions to progress understanding of the leading drivers of urban CV population health and health inequities.
• Serves as program director on critical initiatives in relation to data driven population health, from initial assessment to development and deployment/continuous improvement. This involves planning and overseeing data analytics from the foundation’s population health initiatives, integrating them in decision making with local authorities and health system managers and refining the interventions and tools we develop and/or work with, in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams.
• Develops the Novartis Foundation innovations and strategy, in collaboration with the team and relevant stakeholders, and supports the NF team to operationalize it.
• Demonstrates outstanding stakeholder engagement, relationship building and nurturing skills.
• Leads exemplary communication for different types of audiences and drives content development of key events convened or sponsored by the NF.

What you’ll bring to the role:

Essential Criteria             

• Masters or equivalent degree in public health, lifesciences or business; MBA or PhD is a plus.                                
• Extensive relevant work experience, diverse expertise from other areas within public health or pharmaceutical industry (preferably in strategy building)
• Excellent communication, negotiation and change management skills. Ability to present to Novartis senior management, corporate functions and to local executive team members, as well as to external audiences and government officials.
• Proven track record in leading large matrix teams in national and international environments and in driving agile innovation cycles
• Show high awareness of external trends and ability to proactively address needs based on external demands.
• Excellence in designing and continuously improving business processes to meet quality and compliance standards and to simplify the way we work
• English – fluent oral and written.

Desirable Criteria

• Spanish or French language

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

Accessibility and accommodation:

Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to all individuals. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to receive more detailed information about the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to inclusion.switzerland@novartis.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

Join our Novartis Network:

If this role is not suitable to your experience or career goals but you wish to stay connected to hear more about Novartis and our career opportunities, join the Novartis Network here: https://talentnetwork.novartis.com/network

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: The Novartis Group of Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers and take pride in maintaining a diverse environment. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. We are committed to building diverse teams, representative of the patients and communities we serve, and we strive to create an inclusive workplace that cultivates bold innovation through collaboration and empowers our people to unleash their full potential