Associate Director Competitive Intelligence

Bringing 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 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 Associate Director, Competitive Intelligence will provide CI leadership, drive CI innovation, and provide strategic competitive intelligence for GPS&C and IM teams. The role will play a critical interface with S&G, CE&E, US IM, and priority markets to enable exchange of competitive information and Insights across the organization through integrated platforms and automated process. Competitive Intelligence is a critical ingredient of the Integrated Insights Plans supporting key business decision making and shaping business strategies.
- Major responsibilities
- Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Provide pro-active, thought leadership on CI to enable GPSC strategy and execution
- Build capability to consistently monitor CI outlook across TA relevant portfolio and key markets
- Drive CI automation to provide relevant data points to key stakeholders timely, intuitively through digital tools
- Maintain relevant databases on actual data and anticipated market changes (e.g., clinical practice, innovation) to provide input into GPSC TA and customer engagement strategies
- Foster collaboration with S&G, CE&E, US IM, NIBR, GDD and priority markets to gather competitive information and enable exchange of Competitive Insights, incl. through automated platforms and processes
- Partner with Integrated Insights Leads and TA colleagues linking CI activities to the Integrated Insights Plan, supporting key business decisions and shaping asset/portfolio strategies
- Identify and build partnership with strategic primary CI vendors
- Guide and support offshore CI team

The role can be based in either Switzerland and/or USA.
- Our selection process will prioritize associates whose roles may be changing or may be impacted as a result of the Transforming for Growth reorganization.
- Diversity& Inclusion/EEO: 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**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._

**Minimum requirements**
- Minimum requirements:

- What you'll bring to the role:
- Strong strategic, analytical, and competitive intelligence capabilities in primary and secondary CI
- Strong leadership skills in leading and guiding the offshore CI CONEXTs team
- Strong business acumen and ability to convert data and information to business relevant insights
- Demonstrated CI functional expertise and track record of CI innovation
- Experience working cross-functionally and cross-geography
- Significant account management experience at executive-level, and business case management experience

Preferred- US pharma landscape understanding (either having worked in the US or being in a role where success of the US organization is the dominant element of achieving the goals set for this role)
- Significant above-country experience (Global / Regional) or multi-country experience

transformingforgrowth
- Why 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