Director, Product Strategy Lead - CSU

Bringing life-changing medicines to millions of people, Novartis sits at the intersection of cutting-edge medical science and innovative digital technology. As a global company, the resources and opportunities for growth and development are plentiful including global and local cross functional careers, a diverse learning suite of thousands of programs & an in-house marketplace for rotations & project work. With a strong medicines pipeline our current transformation will not just deliver growth for our business but continue to allow us to bring innovative medicines to patients quickly.<br><br>The Director and Product Strategy Lead will lead the creation, implementation, orchestration and measurement of the integrated product strategies for an indication of a product within a given therapeutic area in the US, under the leadership of a General Manager for the Product or Portfolio. This individual will contribute to the key decision making for maximizing the impact of the product under their remit while actively and appropriately managing resource allocation across multiple teams, and multiple functions. This will be done in consultation with various teams and functions, including: Marketing, Sales, Patient Specialty Services, Market Access, Managed Markets and Medical about their respective strategies, plans and proposed resourcing. This leader will impact the Novartis legacy in their responsibility for accelerating impact in the product/while leading through a business-critical transformation. <br><br>This role will contribute to the management of the full P&L for the assigned product, under the final leadership of the Product General Manager for the Product or Portfolio and will partner closely with functional heads for decision-making of resource allocation to deliver the most accelerated impact for the product.<br><br>This leader will be a key member of the General Manager team in the Integrated Product Strategy Organization and is expected to demonstrate accountability for the assigned product or indication and responsibility for broader enterprise leadership in their decisions and engagement across the US Pharma organization and the Global Pharma Organization. Additionally, this leader will be responsible for ensuring that customer engagement and relationship building are factored into the product/indications’ strategic approach and performance metrics to optimize the approach and identify potential areas of risk.<br><br>Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:<br>· Define critical and specific integrated priorities and key impact measures for assigned product/indication in consultation with the cross-functional product strategy team un-der the final leadership of the Product / Portfolio General Manager.<br>· Integrate, lead, measure and take decisive action against the KPIs on the integrated product strategy to raise impact for product<br>· Significant contribution to the P&L of a product/indication while enabling partner functions to manage day-to-day resource management<br>· Integrate key insights and data in partnership with functional heads to have an adaptive strategy and tactical plan in service of higher impact for our medicines<br>· Significant contribution to the topline results as an outcome of strategic choices<br>· Significant contribution to the integrated cross-functional resource allocation to deliver highest impact <br>· Establish and coordinate management of KPI’s across all functions accountable for the integrated product strategy<br>· Appropriately partner with functional heads in trade-off decisions<br><br>Our selection process will prioritize US-based associates whose roles may be changing or may be impacted as a result of the Transforming for Growth reorganization. This is a US based position. No international relocation will be provided for this position.<br><br>The ideal location for this role is the East Hanover site but remote work may be possible (there may be some restrictions based on legal entity). Please note that this role would not provide relocation as a result. If associate is remote, all home office expenses and any travel/lodging to the East Hanover site for periodic live meetings will be at the employee’s expense. The expectation of working hours and travel (domestic and/or international) will be defined by the hiring manager. This position will require 20% travel.<br><br>[#video#o https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/ggbnzRY9z8w{#400,300#}#/video#]