Key Responsibilities:  

• Drive and implement communication and patient advocacy strategy for therapeutic area and product-related initiatives. 

• Proactively manage interdependencies with International TA Comm & Patient Advocacy team, overseeing global and country launch sequences and strategy implementation. 

• Promote a predictive mindset, seeking multidirectional insights, embracing experimentation, and driving measurable actions. 

• High level of data-fluency, ability to consistently improve tactical focus and execution through appropriate insights generation, data interpretation and rigorous, ongoing measurement to deliver desired long-term behaviour change in defined audiences 

• Represent function on respective TA LT/product team and become trusted strategic business partner to TA Head/relevant internal stakeholders.  

• Establish strategic and ongoing relationships with internal and external stakeholders, leading to business-aligned, long-term collaborations that are valued by and valuable for key audiences, and most importantly, patients. 

• Proactively collaborate with other TA C&PA Managers, Public Affairs, cross-functional TA teams and regional peers to align country TA/product performance and strategic objectives. 

• Embrace the Corporate Affairs and Novartis culture to drive external and internal impact consistently through new and different ways of working. High level of accountability, agility and curiosesity in current and emerging work and how to constantly improve.  

• Essential Requirements:  

• Higher degree level in relevant subject matter area (communications, policy, patient advocacy, marketing) 

• Proven experience in diversified healthcare communications & patient advocacy in a matrix environment 

• Brand communications, digital communications including social media strategy and implementation  

• Patient advocacy including relationship development and HTA engagement 

• Proactive influencing: Excellent people & communication skills ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct line management 

• Highly evolved strategic thinking skills with proven ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels both internal and external  

• Demonstrable data fluency, with significant knowledge of how to generate communications insights, set metrics based on insight and measure Leading medium/ large multi-functional teams   

• Desirable Requirements:  

• High sense of personal accountability, agility in executing work, curiosesity about opportunities to iterate and improve 

• Bias to action: clear sense of urgency, ability to prioritize evolving stakeholder needs and proactively take action to solve problems

Commitment to Diversity:

We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams’ representative of the patients and communities we serve.