Head of Strategy & Operations

About this role

Responsibilities

• Drive strategic planning and operational excellence across priority brands, translating insights into measurable country performance.
• Lead
• five
• year
• portfolio strategy, aligning financial plans, resources, and growth drivers across the full product lifecycle.
• Own Launch Excellence governance, ensuring pre
• launch readiness and market shaping meet global standards and metrics.
• Act as single point of contact for launch execution, partnering with
• cross
• functional
• teams to deliver
• high
• quality
• launches.
• Oversee
• enterprise
• wide
• strategic projects, ensuring alignment, risk mitigation, and
• timely
• delivery of key milestones.
• Provide
• consulting
• style
• portfolio assessments to inform leadership decisions and strengthen competitive positioning.
• Streamline leadership governance,
• optimizing
• agendas,
• decision
• making
• , and action tracking with clear accountability.
• Serve as trusted advisor to the Country President and Leadership Team on strategy, performance, and external engagement.
• Build strong collaboration across NOCC, cluster, and international stakeholders to share best practices and learnings.
• Lead with an enterprise mindset, fostering accountability, innovation, and alignment with Novartis culture and values.

Requirements

• Significant experience
• leading
• cross
• functional
• initiatives within complex, matrixed organizations.
• Proven strategic thinking ability, applying
• consulting
• style
• approaches to portfolio and performance management.
• Strong project and process management experience, with clear progress tracking and milestone delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to translate customer and market insights into actionable strategies.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, influencing senior leaders and diverse teams effectively.
• High level
• of analytical capability, supporting
• data
• driven
• decision making.
• Strong communication
• skills, with the ability to simplify complexity and drive alignment.
• Resilience and adaptability when navigating ambiguity, change, and competing priorities.
• Desirable Requirements
• Experience in pharmaceutical, healthcare, or life sciences environments with exposure to product launches.
• Prior involvement in launch excellence, portfolio strategy, or market shaping initiatives at country or regional level.
• Why Novartis?
• Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating,
• supporting
• and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that
• change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together?
• https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
• Disclaimer*: Some restrictions on flexible working options may apply and will be discussed during interview if applicable
• Benefits and Rewards:
• Read our handbook to learn about all the ways
• we’ll
• help you thrive personally and professionally:
• https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards
• Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion / EEO:
• Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse
• teams
• representative of the patients and communities we serve.