Strategic Director – Neuroscience

Marketing     ·        Montreal, Canada           ·      Full time

Job ID: 370757BR

Date Posted: May 12, 2023

Location: Canada

Job Description

1 in 400 Canadian people are living with multiple Sclerosis (MS). There are 4377 people diagnosed with MS each year. Here at Novartis we have a strong purpose and commitment to help solve Canadians biggest health challenges and making a difference for people living with MS in Canada. We are excited to announce that we have an opening for a Strategic Director in MS. This role will lead and drive the ONE TA strategy ensuring strong competitive leadership and maintaining functional strategic alignment and collaboration through ruthless focus on key priorities to maximize brand performance and impact including launch readiness for future pipeline assets/indications within the therapeutic area.

Your responsibilities:

Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Overall brand performance and overall P&L responsibilities
• Lead with a “one-team” cross functional mindset role-modelling clear expectations on focused prioritization co-created with key cross functional partners
• Foster and maintain strong customer relationships with top KOL’s in the therapeutic area
• Lead strategy development and execution of key marketing initiatives to support business performance
• Work closely with BE&E team to identify capabilities/resources needed for executional excellence and to understand in real time impact of execution in order to tweak accordingly
• Lead development of competitive strategies /tactical plans and oversee strategic directions of the TA portfolio
• Lead launch readiness for future indications within TA and lead with NPP future pipeline assets
• Continuous engagement with Global/region to provide insights and to manage the local execution of strategy to the Canadian market
• Devise and recommend appropriate product strategies through the analysis of available data (performance report, customer experience impact etc)
• Work closely with Sales Director/ASD, Strategic Partnership Director and BE&E team to explore and leverage opportunities/synergies to maximize product strategy through customer experiences, omni channel and patient journeys

Diversity & Inclusion / EEO

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

Minimum Requirements

Experience managing multi – functional teams within a large organization

• Experience leading successfully without authority
• Experience with various product life-cycles – launch, growth phase etc
• 10+ years in marketing excellence fundamentals
• Analytics
• Operations Management and Execution
• Experience in sales, access or medical functions
• Fluent in French an asset

Why consider Novartis?

236 million lives were touched by Novartis medicines in 2022. That’s how many lives our products touch. And while we’re proud of that fact, in this world of digital and technological transformation, we must also ask ourselves this: how can we continue to improve and extend even more people’s lives?

We believe the answers are found when curious, courageous and collaborative people like you are brought together in an inspiring environment. Where you’re given opportunities to explore the power of digital and data. Where you’re empowered to risk failure by taking smart risks, and where you’re surrounded by people who share your determination to tackle the world’s toughest medical challenges.

Imagine what you could do at Novartis!

Division:  Innovative Medicines International & Chief Commercial Office

Business Unit:  LACan IMI

Location:  Canada

Site:  Montreal

Company / Legal Entity:  Novartis Pharma Canada

Functional Area:  Marketing

Job Type:  Full Time

Employment Type:  Regular

Shift Work:  No

Job ID :  370757BR

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