Global Program Head, Neuroscience (MD, PHD)

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About the role:
As the Global Program Head, Neuroscience, you will have critical impact of delivering innovation, which drives Novartis’ mission to embark on a journey to reimagine medicine. In this role, you will lead programs through the end-to-end development cycle to seek successful registration and market access. This includes all medical and scientific aspects of clinical trials, programs and studies from the design phase, through implementation and finalization to include scientific and medical input into the final review and sign-off of all pertinent clinical trial.

Job Description

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Establish program strategy and execute implementation through milestones and decision points by leveraging cross-functional teams.
• Drives and implements short- and long-term project vision and strategy, while ensuring alignment across global functions, regions and CPOs in regard to strategy and direction.  Communicate clear strategy to program team and functions and ensures that is reflected in the operation.
• Key contributor to development leadership team and influences direction of area of responsibility with long term approach.  May be responsible for strategy at the disease area level encompassing multiple indications, spanning multiple products.
• Lead multidisciplinary team of functional experts focused on securing global regulatory approval, market access and optimized commercial value of the program, while ensuring quality, compliance (internal and external), within budget, and in a competitive and timely manner, utilizing both internal and external resources necessary.
• Leverage knowledge, experience, understanding of external stakeholders, internal team capabilities and portfolio needs to develop a compelling and innovative vision and strategy for the program.
• Deploys and prioritizes resources across development units.
• Ensures rigorous adherence to quality and compliance.
• Reports technical complaints, adverse events, special case scenarios related to products within established timelines and protocols.
• Drives talent acquisition among team members and within their sub-teams, including active selection and de-selection and performance management of the core membership of the program team.
• Expected travel: approximately 20% US domestic and/or international travel.

Role Requirements:

Essential Requirements:

• PhD degree in the related discipline with 10+years of drug development experience, including experience in Global Program Teams and with dossier submission for new or supplemental indication.
• Deep drug development experience in neuroscience or related disease area.
• Prior exposure to and strong awareness of regulatory / market access / commercialization requirements particularly for US
• Clinical background relevant to the programs in the development franchise (medical training or experience in program teams).
• Experience in product registration and major health authority interactions.
• Longstanding experience of leading multidisciplinary teams.
• Innovative strategic attitude.
   

Desirable Requirements:

• M.D. highly desirable.
• Clinical and or research experience in neurology/neuroscience, preferably neurodegeneration
• Strong external network in field of neuroscience.
• Strong publication record with expertise recognized in the field of neurodegeneration or other compelling credentials relevant to neuroscience drug development.
• Experience in using AI/digital in research and or development.

Why Novartis:  Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us! Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

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

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Skills Desired

Accountability, Agility, Cross-Functional Teams, Decision Making Skills, Drug Development, Entrepreneurship, Health Authorities Interactions, Leadership, Program Management, Project Delivery, R&D, Risk Management, Strategy