Summary
About the Role
Key responsibilities:
- Drives translation, implementation, and execution of the global/hub strategic plan in the country
- Provides country feedback and insights to the Global/Hub Head S&O community and ensures country needs are incorporated into the global/hub strategy as needed
- Identifies country-specific opportunities, challenges, and risks, supports mitigation with regards to systems and processes
- Responsible for local implementation of global systems and processes; Subject Matter Expert role for IT systems and processes in the country (including continuous feedback sharing and optimization regarding harmonization, simplification, performance, and efficiency)
- Prepares and analyzes country-specific metrics and business insights and communicates them to the Country S&O Head, LT, and other internal and external stakeholders
- Drives overall country data quality mindset and initiatives (e.g., for CTMS, Site Cockpit, CMI, etc.)
- Supports innovation and change management processes, identifies strategic solutions to improve clinical study execution
- Supports implementation of country-specific communication strategy in line with global/hub strategy
- Develops country-specific communication, transformation and change management plans as needed
- Collects, compiles, and communicates feedback from/to internal and external stakeholders
- Drives implementation of information management and communication standards and their further development and optimization
- Supports global/hub information and transformation initiatives, change management and SSO evolution incl. culture and mindset change
- Analyzes external benchmarking, trends, and regulations in the country
- Provides country-specific input to be considered in the global/hub SSO strategy
Essential requirements：
- Bachelor’s Degree in life sciences required; Advanced Degree in scientific or business preferred
- Fluent in both written and spoken English
- Country language is of advantage
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in pharmaceutical development, preferably in clinical research
- Demonstrated thorough change agile mind-set
- Experienced in Operations and Strategy of pharmaceutical development processes and in technical approaches
- Experience in performance management and productivity projects preferred (incl. application of quantitative approaches to re-designing processes, improving productivity and/or improving efficiency)
Desirable requirements：
- Thorough understanding of the international and national aspects of drug development process, incl. international standards (GCP/ICH), health authorities (FDA/EMA), local/National Health Authorities regulations and Novartis standards
- Good strategic thinking skills, ability to manage multiple projects, flexibility to quickly adapt priorities according to business and strategic needs
- Demonstrated experience in matrix organizations and ability to influence without authority
- Strong communication, presentation, and networking skills
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Accessibility and accommodation
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