Executive Director, Analytical Data Products & ...

Job DescriptionBringing 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.The ideal location for this role is our 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 specific 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 may require up to 20% travel. This is a US based position. No international relocation will be provided for this positionA global healthcare leader, Novartis has one of the most exciting product pipelines in the industry today. A pipeline of innovative medicines brought to life by diverse, talented, performance driven people. All of which makes us one of the most rewarding employers in our field. We''re committed to peak performance, improving the quality of life, and embracing and leveraging diverse backgrounds, cultures, and talents to achieve competitive advantage.The ED, Analytical Data Products & Reporting Solutions is responsible for leading, designing, building, and evangelizing the ''next-generation'' of what should be measured and how it should be delivered through Analytical Data Products & Reporting solutions for Novartis Innovative Medicines US. This leader will partner with IM Commercial Leadership and DIA Leadership to define the internal and external factors that affect our commercial performance, develop clear and actionable KPIs, and deliver self-service reporting solutions that provide forward visibility to our business leaders. Further, this role will partner with IM Commercial Leadership to drive business outcomes and drive value realization.The data and reporting solutions are aimed at driving actions from insights; hence, it is important that the leader can understand the key insights from data and present those insights in a compelling way. This leader will be responsible for building and launching Analytical Data Products that fit with critical management processes and which decrease the time to insights, enabling analytics at scale and speed to support new ways of working across all next generation engagement channels for patients, HCPs, pharmacists, and payers in a customer centric fashion. For this reason, it is important that the leader has experience in building data, AI and reporting ''products'' at scale. Experience in working with analytical workbenches and machine learning operations, analytics & reporting ready data models is important for this role.Data products are vital for achieving the vision of DIA of self service and automation of analytics. These data products are aimed at reducing the time for manual data preparation for analytical use cases such as dynamic targeting, resource allocation and next best actionsTo accelerate the transformation of our reporting solutions, this role will be part of the DIA Leadership team, enabling a level of alignment and decision clarity to empower this role to implement new solutions at speed. This Executive Director is also a key member of the US IM Strategic Data Products Leadership Team, reporting to the Head, Strategic Data Products. This role will have the responsibility to ensure that Novartis IM US is operating at scale and driving customer engagement with appropriate analytical data products & reporting solutions, and will be accountable for strategy, enablement, governance, processes, technologies, and policies. Strong knowledge of AI/ML trends and solutions, facilitating interactions and setting up operations is required, as this team will enable running of multiple algorithms in parallel, working with data scientists to tune and promote the algorithms with the strongest fit and explanatory value in given situations. This leader is responsible to closely partnering across IM US Integrated marketing, Customer Engagement, IT, and third-party vendors, and is responsible for the strategic and tactical decision making across the group.Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:* Be the strategic thought leader to the business for defining, aligning, and harmonizing impactful commercial KPIs, to create single source of truth and enable discoverability of these KPIs for use across the range of reporting and analytics solutions* Developing reporting solutions capabilities; rooted in deep insights and storyboarding, and effectively influence stakeholders and communicate findings cross-functionally to secure management action.* Develop and manage long term Analytical Data Products/Reporting Solutions strategy and drive execution for IM US to support the analytic priorities, business intelligence, sales operations, marketing, digital, and Patient services operations.* Lead the development and continuous improvement of groups of ML algorithms which evaluate drivers of commercial performance across a range of situations.* Focus on driving business value through product-based approach, agile execution, and effective change management to ensure efficient delivery and greater adoption and integration of analytics insights within the business processes* Define and set parameters for achieving strategic and shared goals. Anticipate potential barriers to achievement of goals and create solutions* Anticipate, attract, and build the future skills and knowledge requirements of the organization through effective Talent Management strategies* Create a work environment in which people are enabled to perform to the best of their abilities and where high performing teams flourishDiversity & Inclusion / EEOThe Novartis Group of Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers and take pride in maintaining a diverse environment. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. We are committed to building diverse teams, representative of the patients and communities we serve, and we strive to create an inclusive workplace that cultivates bold innovation through collaboration and empowers our people to unleash their full potential.Minimum RequirementsWhat will you bring to the role* Bachelor''s degree required: B.S. in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Analytics, Business or other technical degree. Preferred: MBA or M.S* 10+ years of total experience* 6+ years of pharmaceutical experience in data management, sales operations, commercial data analytics or related experience* 5+ years of hand on analytics/ insights experience* 2+ years of ML ops preferred* Solid understanding of sales/demand data (syndicated/SP/SD/APLD), customer engagement (Field activity, competitor, digital data) and ability to ''connect the dots'' across the ecosystem.* Demonstrated success in leveraging new channels and emerging technology to reach customers and drive business results* Demonstrated business expertise and knowledge (business acumen) and the ability to consult internally and/or externallytransformingforgrowthWhy Novartis?766 million lives were touched by Novartis medicines in 2021, and while we''re proud of this, we know there is so much more we could do to help improve and extend people''s lives.We believe new insights, perspectives and ground-breaking solutions can be found at the intersection of medical science and digital innovation. That a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment inspires new ways of working.We believe our potential can thrive and grow in an unbossed culture underpinned by integrity, curiosity and flexibility. And we can reinvent what''s possible, when we collaborate with courage to aggressively and ambitiously tackle the world''s toughest medical challenges. Because the greatest risk in life, is the risk of never trying!Imagine what you could do here at Novartis!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 Reasonable Accommodations: Individuals in need of a reasonable accommodation due to a medical condition or disability for any part of the application process, or to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to [email protected] or call +1 (877)395-2339 and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.COVID-19: While Novartis does not require vaccination at this time, for certain Novartis sites in the US all associates and candidates may be required to either upload an image of their COVID-19 vaccine card demonstrating proof of full vaccination for COVID-19 (or other similar evidence of vaccination) or proof of a negative COVID-19 test taken by the associate or candidate within the past seven days to enter any of our sites and/or customer office or healthcare facility, as well as prior to participating in other work related off-site meetings. Employees working in customer-facing roles must adhere to and comply with customers'' (such as hospitals, physician offices, etc.) credentialing guidelines, which may require vaccination. As required by applicable law, Novartis will consider requests for reasonable accommodation for those unable to be vaccinated. This requirement is subject to applicable state and local laws and may not be applicable to employees working in certain jurisdictions. Please send accommodation requests to [email protected].DivisionPHARMABusiness UnitUS PHARMALocationUSASiteEast Hanover, NJCompany / Legal EntityNovartis PharmaceuticalsFunctional AreaMarketingJob TypeFull TimeEmployment TypeRegularShift WorkNo

Created: 2025-10-04