Job ID 323880BR Position Title Chief Scientific Officer, Central Eastern Europe Apply to Job
Job Description
2x Patient Reach, 2x Faster! In CEE, we aspire to bring innovative Novartis medicines to our patients by delivering a Triple Win: a win for patients, a win for healthcare systems, and a win for Novartis.
As Chief Scientific Officer, you will be the lead cluster medical representative, responsible for shaping and driving the near and long term medical strategy across cluster countries, harnessing opportunities for shared transformation of clinical practices and guidelines across disease areas. You will be accountable for cluster countries having aligned integrated and innovative evidence plans, which are developed and executed early in order to ascertain optimal access and patient outcomes in the real world, transforming the standard of care. Furthermore, you will recruit, upskill, and develop leadership and talent in the medical function across the cluster.
Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
• Shapes and drives near and long-term medical strategy for the country regarding all scientific, medical and clinical aspects in line with Global, Regional and Cluster needs and portfolio priorities.
• Encourages earlier initiation of innovative integrated evidence generation strategies, novel research activities, and local collaborative and impactful partnership engagements. Supports utility of RWE innovative study designs and exploratory trials (where applicable) across Franchises to accelerate patient access; oversight of Managed Access Programs (MAPs), IITs etc.
• In line with the evolving healthcare ecosystem, proactively and strategically together with country teams builds bold partnerships beyond the traditional healthcare professionals and organizations. Identifies opportunities for joint value creation deploying new engagement models of broader reach. Together with cross functional colleagues engages with key patient associations, academic societies, patients, payers and reimbursement bodies as well as the relevant healthcare systems, to harness opportunities and share ownership in transforming the clinical practice with optimal access and better outcomes for real world patients.
• Foresees that all studies across the cluster are developed and timely executed based on country evidence gaps. Accountable to ensure adherence to all governance, compliance, quality, and safety measures in accordance with local standards in implementation. Ensures effective communication plans are in place at cluster country level for external stakeholder education and advocacy.
• Ensures implementation science plans in place early and holistically to systematically shape health policy and practice guidelines converging clinical innovations and treatments into better standards of care via better disease management. Depth of insight and understanding of local healthcare ecosystem and contextual system challenges to ensure early reimbursement and patient adherence.
• Maintains and drives the standards of medical and scientific excellence in the cluster through recruitment selection, deployment and capability upskilling of agile innovative and collaborative talent together with P&O, in accordance with Novartis Leadership Standards. Role models ethical standards and contribute proactively to a credible image for Novartis in the cluster. Represent Novartis at key external governmental, scientific, clinical and medical events to educate, advocate and support innovation and evidence-based research.
• Owns and optimizes medical resources and allocation: Advocates early resourcing where and when appropriate, while ensuring cost adherence in spend of Medical Affairs trials, activities and resourcing. Ability to articulate and defend priorities and needs of medical with strong influencing skills. Recruits, hires and develops talent while maximizing potential for leadership.
• Accountable that Target Patient Population Outcomes (TPOs) are updated and relevant, and that they are being tracked, resourced and impacted at each cluster CPO level with appropriate regional and global support for all franchises.
Minimum requirements
What you’ll bring to the role:
• MD or PhD/PharmD in Health Sciences or Life Sciences (requirement as per cluster strategy and/or specific regulations)
• ≥10 years of pharmaceutical industry experience and ≥5 years people management and development experience in a matrix environment.
• Accomplished medical and cutting-edge scientific and clinical understanding, with very high level of learning agility.
• Extensive experience in at minimum country, preferred to also have regional or global experience, leadership roles in the pharmaceutical industry (duration partly dependent upon cluster size) with previous role in a regional and/or HQ environment preferred.
• Superior leadership skills, including demonstrated ability to effectively lead and coach scientific/medical professionals, as well as business-oriented colleagues, at all skill and knowledge levels.
• Thought leader in all medical core and game changing competencies, including Business Acumen and Strategic & Enterprise thinking.
• Strong Pharmaceutical Business knowledge / acumen. Ability to manage operational and strategic workload.
WHY CONSIDER NOVARTIS?
769 million lives were touched by Novartis medicines in 2020, 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 you could do here at Novartis!
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:
Novartis is committed to building an outstanding,inclusive work environment and diverse team’s representative of the patients and communities we serve.
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