Manager - Brand, Medical and Finance Data Enablement

Key Responsibilities

• Guide creation and delivery of Brand enablement deliverables as per agreed timeliness, accuracy, quality.
• Designs, develop and/or maintains data enablement solutions that optimizes Brand performance activities through varied variety of evolving infrastructure landscape.
• Support leadership with appropriate documentation and communication throughout the delivery of services 
• Ensures creation and maintenance of standard operating procedures (SOPs), quality checklists that will enable excellent quality outputs for all outputs. 
• Enables knowledge sharing sessions within subject area to promote growth and quality across the function. 
• Ensures exemplary communication with all partners including internal associates, and clients through regular updates with focus on accomplishments, important metrics, standard methodologies, staffing changes and key events

Skills: Project management, Agility, cross-functional collaboration, learning agility, analytical mindset, data management, US commercial datasets or/and commercial operations knowledge, Data tools like DataIKU, SQL etc..

Essential Requirements: 

Novartis seeks an individual with extensive experience in the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry, with a deep understanding of brand enablement and brand data management. The candidate should foster a collaborative and innovative work environment.

Educational Qualifications & Minimum Work Experience  

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Marketing, or a related field or MBA in Life Sciences
• 5-8 years of experience in data enablement role in preferably in US Pharma commercial area
• Familiarity with data tools like SQL, DataIKU, PowerBI, Python, Jira etc.
• Exposure to US pharma datasets like APLD, SP, IQVIA Xponent, DDD, SMART, Affiliations, Promotional Activity, Veeva etc. 
• Previous knowledge and experience of pharma – life science industry is preferred
• Lead the delivery of multiple projects across multiple franchises and teams 
• Develop and coordinate project plans across the design, development, and production stages of a project to support the successful delivery within set KPI's 
• Proactively assist the Business to identify upcoming conflicts and resource gaps 
• Provides consultancy, advice, and assistance on strategy for commercialization of products, and influence team on decision making in most optimal ways, through delivery of proven analytics-based projects.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Good learning agility & analytical mindset

Additional qualifications are as follows:  

• Proven communication, people management, stakeholder management and leadership skills 
• Awareness on methodologies to calculate key performance & execution KPIs to support Brand insights.
• Exposure to healthcare analytics and working in cross-cultural environment

Why Novartis: Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting, and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together.  https://www.novartis.com/about/roadmap/people-and-culture 

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.