Summary

Summary When we put our heads together, we can do brilliant work. And when we do brilliant work, we can achieve remarkable things for patients as we positively transform healthcare. We are looking for an Early Portfolio Global Program Head (GPH).

The Global Program Head is a key player in the strategic leadership of Novartis, inspiring action through transformative vision and robust strategies for our programs. They drive the entire program lifecycle, having sole accountability and responsibility to deliver enterprise value by defining the program’s strategic vision, optimizing life cycle management, and driving the integrated development plans to ensure successful regulatory and access outcomes. As an integrative leader, the GPH represents the program internally and externally, embodies its values, maintains program commitments, and safely navigates the complex, ever changing healthcare landscape to deliver innovative medicines that improve and extend patients’ lives. Their role includes managing the Global Program Team, fostering career growth and equally emphasizing performance accountability within a high-performance and collaborative environment.
The GPH holds a crucial and pivotal role in managing stakeholder relationships using exceptional communication skills, effectively influencing and involving stakeholders in decision-making processes, and anticipating and flexibly adjusting strategies to meet stakeholder expectations and responses.

This role can be based in Basel Switzerland or East Hanover, US.