Jobs at Novartis

Leads GCP compliance across an EMEA clinical operations hub, overseeing quality issues, audits, inspections, investigations, CAPA, risk management, and inspection readiness. Manages and develops a high-performing compliance team while partnering with clinical operations, Quality Assurance, and senior leadership to strengthen regulatory compliance, operational excellence, and sustainable quality outcomes across clinical trials.

Provides legal counsel for pharmaceutical research and development across the UK and EMEA. Advises on clinical trials, regulatory requirements, data use, patient-focused research, emerging technologies, and AI adoption. Drafts and negotiates research, development, collaboration, and commercial agreements while supporting external innovation and asset integration. Partners with scientists and business leaders to manage legal risk, improve processes, and enable compliant innovation.

Provides clinical and scientific support across clinical study phases, including patient-level data review, trend analysis, data quality management, issue resolution, protocol compliance, and safety review. Supports data review plans, case report forms, regulatory documents, clinical study reports, training, and study meetings. Collaborates with cross-functional teams to identify clinical insights, protect patient safety, maintain data integrity, and improve clinical data review processes.

Leads the global Clinical Operations AI portfolio, overseeing planning, delivery, reporting, governance, risk management, roadmap alignment, adoption, change management, training, and benefits realization. Partners with clinical, technical, data, compliance, and business stakeholders to deploy scalable, compliant AI solutions and drive measurable transformation across clinical operations.

Leads the strategy, development, and adoption of AI products that improve global clinical operations. Translates clinical business challenges into AI use cases, requirements, and product roadmaps; evaluates technologies and vendors; and guides solutions from MVP through scaling. Ensures compliance with privacy, AI governance, and GxP requirements while partnering across clinical operations, technology, quality, and compliance teams to deliver measurable operational value.

Manage implementation and governance of layered data architecture (bronze/silver/gold), enforce data quality, lineage, access controls and lifecycle management, document Snowflake assets and data standards, coordinate stakeholders on compliance, and drive reusable, scalable datasets across the enterprise.

Leads strategic and tactical marketing for a pharmaceutical product, including brand planning, market analysis, customer segmentation, forecasting, lifecycle management, product launches, promotional campaigns, budget management, and stakeholder engagement. Collaborates with medical, sales, market access, and customer engagement teams to drive market share, revenue growth, customer adoption, and measurable business impact while ensuring regulatory compliance and timely product safety reporting.

Manages study grant plans and fair market value assessments for global, regional, and local clinical trials. Translates protocols into cost estimates, supports site contracting and forecasting, evaluates amendments and cost drivers, and partners with study teams, country organizations, and vendors. Provides operational insights, improves budgeting accuracy, and identifies efficiency and cost-avoidance opportunities across clinical development processes.

Leads portfolio strategy and operations for Novartis’ Cardio Renal Metabolic Development Unit. Responsibilities include leadership governance, portfolio analytics, milestone and tollgate reporting, risk assessment, resource planning, executive communications, process improvement, and strategic support for senior leaders. The role partners across development, research, medical affairs, commercial, communications, and investor relations; supports portfolio decision forums; drives digital and AI-enabled improvements; and mentors operations colleagues.

Develop and maintain production-grade R packages and Shiny apps to support clinical trial data engineering, analysis, automation, and reporting. Collaborate with statisticians and product owners, apply responsible AI to developer workflows, drive tooling rollout, document solutions, and engage open-source communities to modernize clinical reporting.

Supports the planning, coordination, and operational delivery of scientific and medical engagements, including advisory boards, congresses, external expert engagements, and medical education programs. Coordinates timelines, logistics, materials, vendors, budgets, risks, compliance documentation, and audit-ready processes. Collaborates with Medical Affairs and cross-functional teams across assigned therapeutic areas while contributing to process improvement and consistent scientific messaging.

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.

Leads data science methodology and hands-on analysis of clinical, real-world, and biomarker data to support drug development decisions. Builds predictive machine learning, deep learning, statistical models, dashboards, and data pipelines using R, Python, SQL, Bash, and Pandas. Translates business questions into analytical solutions, develops innovative algorithms, validates findings, and communicates insights to internal and external stakeholders, including regulatory and scientific audiences.

Leads the creation of reusable AI foundations, reference architectures, frameworks, and engineering practices across Development. The role focuses on agentic AI, retrieval and knowledge systems, simulation, digital twins, MLOps, LLMOps, AgentOps, lifecycle management, interoperability, scalability, and maintainability. It translates project solutions and learnings into reusable capabilities, guides senior technical teams, promotes technical consistency, and partners with reliability, product, governance, and technology leaders to evolve Novartis’s AI capability base.

The Global Labelling Associate Director will develop global labelling strategies, lead discussions, analyze competitor labelling, support regulatory queries, and mentor colleagues.

Leads global implementation of innovative, data-driven and adaptive clinical trial monitoring strategies. Partners cross-functionally to improve trial oversight, quality, processes, tools, governance and operational effectiveness. Drives monitoring transformation, analytics-enabled innovation, continuous improvement and change initiatives while tracking performance and compliance outcomes. The role requires clinical operations expertise, regulatory understanding, project leadership, stakeholder influence and strong communication in a global matrix organization.

Lead development and execution of data strategy plans for clinical programs, support assessment selection and data collection consistency (especially in Neuroscience), perform early data landscaping using internal/external sources, advise on clinical assessments and risks, and provide downstream data oversight to enable data-driven decisions and smooth handoff to trial teams.

The Clinical Development Director leads clinical development programs, ensures execution of clinical trials, manages teams, and collaborates on regulatory submissions and data quality.

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.