Summary
The role supports the strategic evolution of the campus from a predominantly corporate site into a vibrant, mixed use Health and Science Quarter, enhancing quality of stay, innovation, and employer attractiveness while ensuring alignment with Novartis business priorities, governance, and security requirements.
Acting as an integrator across functions and stakeholders, the role ensures that spatial design, activation, investment planning, and partnerships are coordinated into a coherent, phased development roadmap that delivers long term value for Novartis and the surrounding city
Location: Basel, Switzerland
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About the Role
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure robust change management and communications throughout the program, to maximise operational stability, business continuity and stakeholder engagement
- Coordinate the revitalization of the Novartis Basel Campus as a multi‑year, campus‑wide development program, comparable to urban or district‑scale development initiatives.
- Support the strategic transformation of the campus into a mixed‑use, open and attractive environment, balancing corporate, scientific, social, and public‑facing elements.
- Contribute to the vision and roadmap for an open “Health and Science Quarter”, strengthening innovation, collaboration, and local integration while maintaining required security and compliance standards.
- Align and coordinate investments across spatial design, placemaking, activation, programming, and campus governance, ensuring coherence across initiatives and funding streams.
- Support phased implementation planning, including prioritization, sequencing, and dependency management across multiple projects, workstreams, and stakeholders.
- Build and manage partnerships with internal functions (e.g., REFS, Communications, Security, P&O, Business Units) and external stakeholders (e.g., City of Basel, universities, institutions, and potential partners).
- Contribute to strategies that attract external partners and organizations, improve space utilization, and reduce idle space and associated costs.
- Monitor progress, risks, and interdependencies across initiatives, ensuring transparency, alignment, and timely escalation where required.
- Coordinate closely with communications and engagement teams to support stakeholder alignment, narrative coherence, and change communication related to campus transformation.
Essential Requirements:
- University degree in urban development, architecture, real estate, engineering, business administration, public policy, or a related field.
- Advanced degree or certification in urban planning, real estate development, or project/program management is an advantage.
- English/German on fluent level
- Experience in campus development, urban development, large‑scale real estate projects, or mixed‑use district initiatives
- Proven background in coordinating multi‑stakeholder, multi‑initiative programs rather than single projects.
- Exposure to public‑private partnerships, institutional environments, or complex corporate campuses is an advantage.
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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
Benefits and Rewards: Learn about all the ways we’ll help you thrive personally and professionally.
Read our handbook (PDF 30 MB)
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