The Role
The Senior Brand Manager defines product strategy and implements tactical plans to ensure brand growth, monitors budgets, and collaborates with internal teams while reporting technical issues related to products.
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Job Description Summary
Define product strategy in agreement with local management and global marketing department and implement supporting tactical plans/projects.
Job Description
Major Accountabilities:
- Prepares content of Integrated Brand Teams and Launch Teams.
- Responsible for execution, monitoring and analysis of the agreed tactical plans in order to ensure the growth of the brand(s).
- Lead the development of promotional activities in line with internal SOPs and Code of Conduct guidelines.
- Monitor and control brand budgets, forecasts and expenses and assess the marketing mix of the product to evaluate cost effectiveness and results.
- Identifies area market insights and opportunity via customer interactions.
- Executes central marketing activities as well as regional initiated marketing activities.
- Monitors product performance and external environment using appropriate tools and taking corrective action if required to meet business objectives.
- Collaborate with Marketing and Medical teams to maximize activities.
- Identify specific needs for each segment of patients and the implications of the disease for each of them within assigned territory.
- Reporting of technical complaints / adverse events / special case scenarios related to Novartis products within 24 hours of receipt.
Minimum Requirements:
Work Experience:
- Cross Cultural Experience
- Project Management
- Operations Management and Execution
Skills:
- Agility
- Commercial Excellence
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Customer Orientation
- Digital Marketing
- Healthcare Sector Understanding
- Influencing Skills
- Marketing Strategy
- Negotiation Skills
- Operational Excellence
- Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
- Product Marketing
- Product Strategy
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Stakeholder Management
- Strategic Partnerships
Languages:
- English
Skills Desired
Agility, Asset Management, Commercial Excellence, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Customer Orientation, Digital Marketing, Healthcare Sector Understanding, Influencing Skills, Marketing Strategy, Negotiation Skills, Operational Excellence, Priority Disease Areas Expertise, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Product Marketing, Product Strategy, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Management, Strategic PartnershipsSkills Required
- Cross Cultural Experience
- Project Management
- Operations Management and Execution
Novartis Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Novartis and has not been reviewed or approved by Novartis.
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Healthcare Strength — Pay and benefits are described as a strong overall package, supported by medical, dental, and vision insurance alongside FSAs/HSAs and disability and life coverage. Mental-health support is reinforced through an employee assistance program with psychological support and a network of mental health first aiders.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a standout element, with an automatic company contribution plus dollar-for-dollar matching in the 401(k). Additional retirement funding is described through an age-based defined contribution program and access to an employee share purchase plan discount.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-related benefits are framed as robust, including a global minimum of paid parental leave for new parents following birth or adoption. Added supports include domestic partner coverage, dependent-care resources, and benefits such as adoption assistance and child/elder care options.
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The Company
What We Do
Novartis is an innovative medicines company. Every day, working to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives so that patients, healthcare professionals and societies are empowered in the face of serious disease. Our medicines reach more than 250 million people worldwide.







