Key Responsibilities:

• Brings external benchmarking, analysis and insights, and judgement to support the Neuroscience TA Strategy Head in developing a holistic Novartis TA strategy that achieves sustainable growth in short, mid and long-term.
• Brings both understanding of the pharmaceutical industry, Neuroscience and the core Therapeutic Areas (TA) and Disease area to derive insightful and differentiating competitive advantages over our peers.
• Provides key commercial insights to the R&D project teams, particularly for early phase programs. To do this effectively, in-market experience in the US is critical.
• Analyses reports and publications to extract key messages, including building product forecasts.
• Supports development and delivery of TA-specific strategic external insights to support identification of growth opportunities, emerging competitive challenges and support creation of a third-party view around key strategic levers, and commissions targeted primary research.
• Successfully ensures accurate and timely delivery of key commercial insights for early phase projects to the program teams.
• Effectively manage the commercial transition from S&G to the US and International commercial units. Actively seeks input into the TA strategy from other internal experts (e.g. the Therapeutic Areas Leadership team).
• Successfully completes ad-hoc requests as defined.
• Delivery of agreed health improvement partnership projects on time and within budget. High quality contributions to other HCS group activities.
• Feedback from project sponsors and (internal and external) key stakeholders regarding quality of project output and interaction.

Essential Requirements:

• Advanced degree (PhD, MD or other advanced University degree) or equivalent experience in life science/healthcare; MBA or consulting or equivalent experience highly desirable
• In-depth knowledge of Neuroscience, including multiple tumor types (or track record to acquire required TA expertise effectively and rapidly)
• Experience with NS or demonstrated ability to learn complex, highly technical areas quickly
• Highly agile having the capacity to support multiple strategic Disease Areas within a TA and multiple programs internal and external
• Substantial experience evaluating new product opportunities (through M&A, BD&L and internal research programs).
• At least 5-7 years of Industry pharma and/or medical devices experience in Research & Development and/or Commercial functions with experience conducting, commissioning, analyzing primary research and developing forecasts
• Experience of strategy development and asset shaping early in lifecycle (any functional perspective)
• Recent (post 2015) local US in-market experience; local US experience includes working within the US market with the local US customers, US health care systems / systems

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