Jobs at Novartis

Leads strategy, operational excellence, innovation, transformation, and change initiatives across Study & Site Operations in the EMEA cluster. The role translates hub strategy into execution, improves clinical trial productivity and performance, manages risks and resources, strengthens stakeholder communication, and partners with senior leaders to optimize portfolio delivery. It requires pharmaceutical or clinical research experience, knowledge of clinical development and Good Clinical Practice, and the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders in a global matrix organization.

Leads legal strategy and a small legal team supporting international pharmaceutical operations, AI, data platforms, launch excellence, customer and market activation, communications, patient advocacy, and business integrations. Advises on regulatory, commercial, transactional, privacy, digital, AI, compliance, contracting, partnerships, and post-acquisition matters. Builds legal capabilities, simplifies processes, manages legal and regulatory risks, and enables compliant innovation and growth across global markets.

Leads the global strategy, architecture, and delivery of technology, data, AI, and generative AI capabilities for clinical development. Oversees scalable platforms, analytics ecosystems, AI use-case industrialization, data integration, governance, vendor partnerships, compliance, and operational resilience. Advises senior leadership, manages multidisciplinary teams, and drives digital transformation across the clinical development lifecycle from study design through regulatory submission.

Leads global HEOR and HTA strategy for Novartis’ Immunology portfolio. Develops value evidence, global value dossiers, economic models, evidence syntheses, and real-world evidence studies to support payer value propositions, reimbursement, pricing, and patient access. Partners with Access, Medical Affairs, Development, Commercial, and country teams, while engaging HTA bodies, external experts, and policy stakeholders. Monitors international reimbursement and healthcare policy trends and translates complex evidence into compelling value stories.

Leads global pricing and contracting strategy for the Immunology portfolio, maximizing patient access and long-term asset value. Responsibilities include managing a high-performing team, advising senior leaders and markets, developing launch and in-market pricing strategies, guiding reimbursement and contracting approaches, monitoring policy and market trends, and leading strategic pricing projects. The role requires extensive pharmaceutical market access, Health Technology Assessment, payer negotiation, cross-functional leadership, and people management experience.

Leads international scientific content strategy and execution for an immunology portfolio. Develops scientifically rigorous slide decks, training materials, congress assets, digital content, and omnichannel materials supporting launches, lifecycle management, and healthcare professional engagement. Partners with global, regional, and country Medical Affairs teams, manages vendors, enables modular content reuse and localization, and ensures compliance, governance, quality, and strategic consistency.

Leads international market access strategy for immunology therapies across development and commercialization. Develops payer value propositions, evidence plans, pricing and reimbursement strategies, and negotiation approaches. Partners with Medical Affairs, HEOR, Development, Commercial, Pricing, and country teams to support launches, anticipate payer and HTA trends, manage resources, and maximize sustainable patient access globally.

Leads end-to-end medical safety strategy for global oncology programs across development and lifecycle management. Responsibilities include identifying and managing safety signals, chairing safety management teams, preparing regulatory safety documents, conducting benefit-risk evaluations, supporting health authority interactions, ensuring compliant governance, and mentoring colleagues. The role requires pharmaceutical drug development, clinical experience, pharmacovigilance expertise, and cross-functional leadership.

Provides strategic statistical leadership for health technology assessment, pricing, reimbursement, and market access evidence. Leads advanced methods including population adjustment, evidence synthesis, survival extrapolation, causal inference, and real-world evidence analysis. Partners with global cross-functional teams, supports reimbursement and Joint Clinical Assessment dossiers, oversees vendors and parallel projects, communicates findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders, contributes to publications and standards, and mentors biostatisticians.

Leads program-level clinical data strategy across multiple clinical trials, ensuring consistent data collection, quality management, regulatory alignment, risk oversight, and operational delivery. Represents Clinical Data Operations in governance forums, guides Study Data Leads, manages stakeholders, and drives quality-by-design, efficiency, and continuous improvement across development programs. The role also includes people leadership, strategic planning, and translating cross-study trends and risks into program-level actions.

Lead the development and harmonization of global financial controls and compliance processes. Coordinate Global Process Owners, IT controls specialists, auditors, methodology teams, and operations to improve control design, remediation, testing, and cross-process collaboration. Promote automated, system-enabled controls and support S/4HANA transformation. Identify opportunities to simplify, digitize, and improve monitoring while managing projects, stakeholders, dependencies, and change across a global matrixed organization.

Manages global regulatory maintenance activities for a complex pharmaceutical portfolio, ensuring compliant submissions, renewals, variations, safety reports, and timely approvals. Provides strategic regulatory input, interprets safety, efficacy, and labeling requirements, leads health authority responses, identifies risks and gaps, and supports process improvement. Collaborates across global, cross-functional teams and mentors junior associates.

Lead and coordinate statistical programming across complex clinical programs (Phase I-IV). Develop programming strategy, adopt tools (R, Tidyverse, Shiny, Git, AI-enabled), ensure quality, validation, and audit readiness, manage resources and mentor programmers, and represent statistical programming in cross-functional teams and submissions.

Lead global regulatory strategy for precision and companion diagnostics, manage submissions and health-authority interactions across lifecycle stages, integrate diagnostics into drug development, ensure regulatory compliance, and support cross-functional training and processes.