Exec Dir, Integrated Insights

Key Responsabilities:

• Design and execute TA integrated insights strategy
• Provide pro-active, thought leadership on integrated insights to enable TA strategy design and execution. Provide strategic guidance relating to insight generation for TAs priority brands and or disease areas
• Play a key role in insight generation and interpretation for priority BD&L & M&A opportunities
• Build capability to consistently monitor strategic alignment with priority markets and executional success while generating insights and suggestions to course correct where required
• Establish approaches to comprehensively understand patient & customer journeys, including deep human understanding (i.e., behavior science)
• Maintain disease area and patient models based on the actual data and anticipated market changes (e.g., clinical practice, innovation) to enable country and analytics
• Act as an extended member of the TA leadership team with authority to challenge KBQs and feed Insights into TA/asset strategies
• Foster collaboration, customer centric solution design within Integrated Insights team and other teams (i.e., US Insights, CE&E)
• Ensure application of best practices generated by Integrated Insights into TA

Essential requirements:

• Strong strategic, analytical and data insights capabilities, with deep and broad expertise within I&A covering Business Analytics, Primary & Secondary Market Research, Competitive Intelligence and Forecasting
• Proven ability to create vision & purpose, and translate strategy to applicable tactics
• Extensive experience with demonstrated deep commercial savviness in pharma industry, or functional expertise and leadership in innovative research & insights, deep marketing understanding.
• Experience working cross-functionally and cross-geography and exposure to senior business leadership. Significant account management experience at executive-level, and business case management experience
• Ability to understand and apply industry-leading market research methodologies and ability synthetize into deep, integrated insights
• Ability to establish credibility and influence across a range of diverse stakeholders in a matrix organization
• Able to build and develop high-performing teams to take accountability and make decisions. Competitive and entrepreneurial mindset with proven track record of fostering innovation
• Experience in developing and executing “Best in Class” processes at scale. Successfully leveraging digital innovation to improve business outcomes and maximize customer value

Desirable requirements:

• International Healthcare Experience (Healthcare systems, data understanding, i.e., patient- and HCP-level data). Significant above-country experience (Global / Regional) or multi-country experience
• Deep TA relevant knowledge (trends, key customer groups, DAs, competitor landscape etc.). Valued for patient-centric mindset and passion for delivering personalized patient care. Confidently lead and define a new organization’s structure and ways of working

Location: This role is based in Basel, Switzerland.

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Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Accessibility and accommodation

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