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Sandoz · 5 hours ago

Director, Pipeline Strategy and Innovation Excellence - Remote

Remote Position (USA)

Full-time

Remote

Director/Executive

$192K/yr - $288K/yr

10+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Reads clinical pipeline to understand emerging needs.

Understands clinical trial design for emerging NPS portfolio, risks, requirements and how they will likely translate into product label.

Compares Novartis asset therapeutic profiles to emerging competitive set to assess competitive positioning and payer dynamics.

Evaluates the design on competitive tactics to inform Novartis strategy.

Serves as key team member to present recommendations and partner with the disease state team on design and pull through.

Develops 3-year strategic roadmap and benchmarks for patient services capabilities, leveraging design menus to understand where capabilities already exist and where we need to learn more.

Develops and periodically refines detailed views of the Novartis IM portfolio, mid and long-term pipeline and synthesizes likely scenarios for Patient Services needs and Program footprints for each asset.

Creates accelerator packages to equip and train Disease State Teams and LaunchEx stakeholders as they pick up work on an asset in the T-18 timeframe.

Examines existing offerings within NPS to prioritize areas of capability evolution.

Research available offerings from other ecosystem players (e.g. Payers, Specialty Pharmacies, Health Systems and advocacy) and marries with patient insights to determine optimal design of manufacturer investments.

Partners with Insights, Innovation and Design team members to socialize findings and build the optimal strategy for transition to Launch Excellence and Disease State Teams.

Continues to partner with NPS franchise teams across the IM portfolio for upcoming new to market launches to refine and crystallize program footprints and required capabilities, enhance enterprise understanding of needs for various drug archetypes (Retail, Specialty, Buy & Bill, Advanced modalities including Radioligand therapy).

Drives inputs on launch and Program migration roadmaps and sequencing via strategic capability choices, continuously partners with NPS Franchise teams to evolve Program capabilities to business needs and readiness for migration to in house NPS technology platform.

Actively collaborates with cross functional matrix partners (e.g. medical affairs, market access, marketing) to gather data and inputs to feed strategy.

Works within ethical and compliance policies to support a diverse and inclusive environment, adheres to Novartis policies and procedures, relevant state and federal laws and regulations and ensures that others around them do the same.

Continuously monitors customer needs and competitor activity to ID risks and opportunities and associated new, patient support innovation.

Builds strong relationships with Novartis Patient Support leadership team to solicit feedback and understand needs that are bubbling up.

Ensures priority alignment across different areas of the business (product, Patient Services Center, Disease State Teams).

Partners with procurement/Vendor Management, attends congresses, and understand the capabilities and new, innovation offerings for our current NPS partners.

Prepares initial analysis to assess whether a new product or program idea delivers adequate incremental value.

Run an active external innovation funnel and appropriately prioritizes deeper diligence on attractive investments for NPS.

Serves as key budget owner across the investment portfolio and partners with Executive Director on annual planning and prioritizing big bets.

Determines best way to measure technology and build business case for investment.

Secures Quantum, PSOC, MIST governance approvals and partners with legal, data privacy, ERC and patient safety teams to issue spot and de-risk investments.

Structures test and measure exercises (betas, pilots), partner with OP/Ex, Launch Ex, Quality/Performance Excellence and DDIT, patient support center as well as consulting partners, including ERC and legal to execute pilots and document findings/risks.

Owns and continues to advance existing and new relationships with external market innovators, including startups, established and large healthcare disruptors for Novartis NPS.

Updates business case with pilot results and aligns Leadership team and Governance stakeholder on go/no go recommendations.

Drives delivery of recommendations back to business.

Seamlessly transitions work to vendor management, product and disease state stakeholders/Patient Support Center (PSC) at the appropriate time in the evolution in the program.

Works closely with Executive Director, Design Excellence, Enterprise and Portfolio planning to embed Strategic Market Investments in long-term strategic planning for NPS.

Qualification

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Patient support benchmarkingMedical regulatory complianceStrategic foresightLaunch marketing experienceChange managementTeam coordinationData-driven perspectivesCompetitive positioningEcosystem landscapingInnovation assessmentBusiness case developmentPilot testingStakeholder engagementProject managementAdvanced degreeUnstructured problem-solvingCross-functional collaboration

Required

Bachelor’s degree required in disciplines relevant to healthcare, pharmaceuticals, patient services and marketing.

10+ years’ experience in global, large pharmaceuticals or biopharma commercial functions or 10+ years of combined experience across biopharma consulting, pharma, health ecosystem, social sciences and advanced analytics with a record of increasing responsibility.

Experience with patient support benchmarking, understands data that is publicly available vs. where market research is required.

Strong understanding of medical, legal regulatory and compliance environment and how to partner with stakeholders on early risk spotting to drive approvals.

Launch marketing or pipeline and launch strategy experience desired in the late clinical space.

Change management and project management experience.

Strong unstructured problem-solving skills and ability to work effectively without a blueprint.

Experience in understanding technology and software capabilities that connect to deliver superior patient and customer experiences in pharma and healthcare.

Experience in the coordination of teams with diverse skill sets (e.g. technical, clinical, operations, etc.) and the execution of large scale, multi-disciplinary projects.

Strong unstructured problem-solving skills and strong interpersonal skills to effectively convey management needs to colleagues and functions throughout the company.