Major Accountabilities

• Provide people leadership to a TAaligned Access team (5–8 associates), fostering high performance, engagement, and capability development.
• Support the development and execution of integrated access strategies across the product lifecycle (early assets to inmarket), in alignment with TA and enterprise priorities.
• Coordinate development and updates of IPAS deliverables (Opportunity, Strategy, Execution) and Serve as BSI workstream lead within IPAT/IPAS governance
• Act as a core access partner to TA leadership, contributing to brand strategy, disease area planning, and key decision forums.
• Ensure strong payer value propositions, evidence alignment, and access positioning in collaboration with HEOR, Medical, Pricing, Commercial, and Regions.
• support TA access team on key deliverables, ensuring timely, high quality outputs and clear accountability.
• Drive consistent ways of working, governance, and best practices across the team, including process standardization and continuous improvement.
• Coach and develop BSI team members through clear objectives, feedback, and talent planning, building a robust pipeline of future BSI access leaders.
• Represent BSI Access in cross functional and matrix forums, influencing stakeholders and aligning diverse perspectives toward shared outcomes.

Requirements:

• Post-graduate degree (Masters or PhD) in relevant discipline (including health economics, epidemiology, health services research, public health, or business management)
• 10-12 years conducting research / activities for pharmaceutical products in pharma industry, contract research organization, or academic institute; or experience in a closely related discipline within the pharma industry (e.g. clinical research, statistics, epidemiology, pricing analytics)
• Prior experience with CRM TA preferred
• Ability to work, prioritize, and drive projects independently
• Proven leadership (people management and project management)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

• Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive workplace and diverse teams that reflect the patients and communities we serve.

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