Résumé
About the Role
Your key responsibilities:
• Lead project teams with respect to the timing, scenario/options development, risk management, opportunities / challenges, and requirements of interfacing with Decision Boards.
• Partner with project team leaders and functional leaders to define project strategies, develop and maintain integrated project plans, and manage diverse teams across multiple sites to meet project timelines and goals.
• Implement best practices in program management to increasing probability of success in drug discovery and development programs.
• Bring clarity to complex drug discovery/development programs by identifying core issues and developing scenarios that provide a range of risk taking.
• Adapting project strategy based on internal learnings and external competition.
• Use drug discovery and development expertise (especially preclinical and early clinical development) to integrate knowledge and planning of all line functions for project.
• Contribute scientific experience, clinical knowledge, and indication expertise to create new value-added opportunities to maximize the value of existing projects and programs.
• Ensuring that key milestones and go / no go criteria are clearly defined, data driven, and captured accurately in portfolio systems.
• Fostering effective, proactive, and open communication within and across project teams to achieve transparency and clarity of program goals, progress, and issues.
• Working to build and maintain effective and high-performing teams focused on effective cross functional communication, decision-making and resolving issues
Role Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in life sciences or Bachelor’s degree with MBA
• Master’s or Doctorate in life sciences, highly preferred
• Previous track record of success in working with multidisciplinary drug discovery & development teams.
• 5+ years pharma or related industry experience
• Demonstrated expertise in project leadership and/or program management skills.
• Expert knowledge in drug development
• PMP certification (or similar) preferred but not required.
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
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 & 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.
Novartis Compensation and Benefit Summary: The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $151,200 - $226,800/year; however, while salary ranges are effective from 1/1/24 through 12/31/24, fluctuations in the job market may necessitate adjustments to pay ranges during this period. Further, final pay determinations will depend on various factors, including, but not limited to geographical location, experience level, knowledge, skills, and abilities. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a sign-on bonus, restricted stock units, and discretionary awards in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.
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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
Join our Novartis Network: Not the right Novartis role for you? Sign up to our talent community to stay connected and learn about suitable career opportunities as soon as they come up: https://talentnetwork.novartis.com/network
