Director, MLO

Job ID REQ-10027578

We’re a team of dedicated and smart people united by a drive to achieve together. You will focus on policy shaping with multilateral organizations, including G7, WHO, WTO and OECD. You will act as interface for integrated NVS policy positioning on key MLO topics, ensuring consistency across Public Affairs and Corporate Affairs. It will identify current and future global health, industrial, and multilateral policy risks and opportunities.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Continuously monitor and scan horizon of multilateral organizations (MLOs) to identify real-time priorities and emerging themes, particularly G7, OECD, WHO & WTO.
2. Identify current and future global health, industrial, and multilateral policy risks and opportunities.
3. Act as interface for integrated NVS policy positioning on key MLO topics, ensuring consistency across PA and Corporate Affairs.
4. Act as internal point of coordination with Global Health for relevant cross-cutting policies.
5. Work with relevant internal stakeholders to coordinate multilateral-focused advocacy, including Global Health, Policy Communications, Patient Advocacy, and the Novartis Foundation, to leverage collective insights from cross-functional activities.
6. Develop and sustain relationships with key officials in MLOs such as WHO, UN, OECD, G7 and WEF and other influential organizations to shape policy priorities in line with NVS public policy strategy.
7. Provide support for MLO-focused trade associations and/or coalitions, e.g. IFPMA BCR, ATOM.
8. Develop content for priority MLO platforms and drive our Novartis policy asks.

What you’ll bring to the role:

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

1. Strong experience in international government affairs or interfacing with multilateral organizations. Preference for experience related to life sciences industry (Pharma, Biotech, Medtech).
2. Deep understanding of MLOs' role in shaping global health and pharmaceutical industry policies and policy landscape.
3. Excellent interpersonal and diplomatic skills, and established network across key Geneva-based MLOs.
4. Ability to prioritize & maximize resources with Executive presence.
5. External orientation, with a strong external network and excellent interpersonal and partnering skills with excellent business and organizational awareness, enterprise perspective. Ability to collaborate and work effectively in a global matrix organization.

DESIRABLE CRITERIA:

1. Master’s degree in Regulatory Affairs, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Health Policy, or related field is preferred.
2. Fluency in French preferred.

Why Novartis? Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us

Accessibility and accommodation:

Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to all individuals. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to receive more detailed information about the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to inclusion.switzerland@novartis.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: The 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.