Summary
Location: Bratislava, Slovakia
Relocation Support: This role is based in Bratislava, Slovakia. Novartis is unable to offer relocation support: please only apply if accessible.
Shape the future of healthcare engagement. As a Portfolio Engagement Lead, you’ll design and execute innovative strategies that connect non-TA brands with customers through field and digital channels. Your work will drive brand performance, foster collaboration, and create meaningful impact for patients.
About the Role
Key Responsibilities:
- Execute tactical brand plans to drive growth and engagement across non-TA portfolios.
- Develop and implement promotional activities aligned with compliance and internal guidelines.
- Monitor brand performance and market trends, taking corrective actions when needed.
- Manage budgets, forecasts, and expenses to ensure cost-effective marketing strategies.
- Identify market insights and opportunities through customer interactions and data analysis.
- Collaborate cross functionally with Medical and other teams to maximize impact.
- Scout canters, key opinion leaders, and influencers within assigned territory.
- Tailor engagement strategies to patient segments and disease-specific needs.
- Ensure timely reporting of technical complaints and adverse events.
- Support distribution of marketing samples and compliance with regulatory requirements.
Essential Requirements:
- At least 1 year of professional experience in commercial activation in healthcare or other industries.
- University degree in a relevant area.
- Strong project management skills with timely delivery of initiatives.
- Ability to analyse market trends and turn insights into strategies.
- Excellent collaboration skills across cross-functional teams.
- Strong communication and influencing skills with customer focus.
- Budget management and cost-effective marketing execution.
- Fluency in English and Slovak/Czech, written and spoken.
Desirable Requirements
- Expertise in digital marketing and innovative engagement models.
Benefits & Rewards
- Monthly pension contribution matching your contribution up to 3% of your gross monthly base salary
- Company Shares Program
- Risk Life Insurance (full cost covered by Novartis)
- 1 week of holiday above the Labour Law requirement
- MultiSport Card contribution
- 4 paid sick days within one calendar year in case of absence due to sickness without a medical sickness report
- Cafeteria employee benefit program – choice of benefits from Benefit Plus for 500 EUR per year
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Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion / EEO paragraph:
Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.
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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 di.sk@novartis.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.
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
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Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.
