Director, Medical Value & Enablement

Novartis•East Hanover, NJ

6d•$185,500 - $344,500

About The Position

The Director, Medical Value & Enablement (MVE) is a highly autonomous strategic advisor, thought leader, and transformation architect within US Medical Affairs. The role operates with minimal day-to-day leadership oversight, independently identifies enterprise-critical opportunities, frames complex and ambiguous challenges, develops original points of view, and creates executive-ready strategies from concept through measurable value realization. The Director leads through expertise, influence, and sound judgment rather than positional authority, synthesizing external trends, internal data, stakeholder insight, and emerging AI capabilities to challenge assumptions and recommend differentiated solutions. The role retains strategic accountability at the MST, Disease Cluster, portfolio, and/or COE level while orchestrating execution across NOCCs, and is accountable for strategic coherence, decision quality, fit-for-purpose design, stakeholder adoption, capability uplift, and sustained business, organizational, and patient impact. The Director leads strategic planning and complex cross-functional transformations, designing future-state operating models, capability architecture, implementation roadmaps, and value-realization frameworks. The position identifies and shapes AI, automation, analytics, and digital use cases, and partners with relevant experts to design and prototype practical, scalable solutions with established human accountability. It also develops change and adoption strategies, builds organizational capabilities and AI fluency, and translates complex information into executive narratives and decision materials. The role collaborates across functions and with NOCC execution partners, providing strategic direction and escalation leadership while avoiding unnecessary involvement in tactical delivery. Candidates are required to have a bachelor's degree in business, life sciences, or healthcare and 10 or more years of cross-enterprise experience in pharmaceuticals or healthcare, including roles in strategy, transformation, organizational effectiveness, or capability leadership in a complex matrix environment. Advanced AI fluency and demonstrated experience leading complex transformations through measurable value realization are required. An advanced degree, prior agency consultancy, and direct Medical Affairs experience are preferred. The expected salary range is $185,500 to $344,500 per year, with performance-based cash incentives and potential eligibility for annual equity awards depending on role level. Eligible US-based employees receive health, life, and disability benefits, a 401(k) with company contribution and match, and paid time off and other leaves.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in business, life sciences, or healthcare.
At least 10 years of cross-enterprise experience in pharmaceuticals or healthcare, in differing roles including strategy, transformation, organizational effectiveness, or capability leadership in a complex matrix environment.
Advanced AI fluency demonstrated through recognized certification, applied experience, or a portfolio of AI-enabled solutions that improved decisions, workflows, capabilities, or measurable outcomes.
Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional transformation from opportunity identification and strategy through design, build, adoption, and measurable value realization.
Ability to independently frame ambiguous challenges, develop evidence-based points of view, create strategies and solutions from a blank page, and advance work with minimal day-to-day oversight.
Strong strategic-design capability, including operating models, capability roadmaps, change strategies, implementation approaches, and value-measurement frameworks.
Advanced ability to use quantitative and qualitative data, analytics, external evidence, and stakeholder insight to generate executive-level recommendations and inform decisions.
Agility and composure in fast-paced environments, with the ability to anticipate needs, make sound decisions with incomplete information, and adjust direction as conditions evolve.
Advanced intellectual and technical curiosity, learning agility, courage, and sound judgment; ability to challenge constructively, reflect on impact, act on feedback, and support continuous growth and capability development.
Ability to work collaboratively and transparently across functions, teams, and organizational boundaries, integrate diverse expertise, build shared ownership, and advance enterprise outcomes.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree in organizational leadership, data and analytics, or a related discipline.
Prior agency consultancy experience.
Direct Medical Affairs experience.

Responsibilities

Serve as a trusted, highly autonomous advisor to the respective Vice President and leadership team, setting the strategic agenda within the role's mandate and advancing priorities with minimal day-to-day oversight.
Frame ambiguous business questions, identify root causes, establish hypotheses, and develop original, evidence-based points of view.
Lead strategic planning across MSTs, Disease Clusters, portfolios, and/or COEs, translating enterprise and US Medical Affairs priorities into choices, integrated plans, decision rights, and measurable outcomes.
Create strategies, business cases, roadmaps, frameworks, and executive recommendations from a blank page when needed.
Anticipate needs and risks, make timely recommendations with incomplete information, and maintain momentum in fast-changing environments.
Own and orchestrate complex cross-functional transformations from opportunity identification and strategy through design, activation, adoption, and multi-year value realization.
Design future-state operating models, decision rights, capability architecture, and implementation roadmaps that are practical, scalable, and fit for Medical Affairs.
Apply appropriate transformation, capability, and change methodologies, including design, capability maturity assessments, and behavior-change approaches.
Establish strategic hypotheses, stage gates, dependencies, risk boundaries, and course-correction mechanisms while managing quality, compliance, and enterprise risk.
Mobilize senior leaders and cross-functional partners around outcomes, choices, accountabilities, and critical decisions.
Define value theses linking strategic choices and activities to stakeholder outcomes, organizational performance, and patient impact.
Build value-realization frameworks linked to KPIs, leading and lagging indicators, adoption measures, and executive dashboards.
Integrate quantitative analysis, qualitative insight, external evidence, and stakeholder feedback to assess progress and identify risks or opportunities.
Recommend trade-offs, stop or redirect low-value work, scale effective work, and establish ownership for sustained benefits.
Scan healthcare, technology, data, AI, and industry developments and translate relevant trends into strategic implications and actionable opportunities for US Medical Affairs.
Identify, prioritize, and shape AI, automation, analytics, and digital use cases based on business need, data readiness, feasibility, scalability, adoption potential, risk, and expected value.
Design and prototype practical AI-enabled workflows, decision-support tools, and scalable solutions with AI, data, digital, analytics, technology, and functional experts, maintaining human accountability.
Build organizational AI fluency by translating complex concepts into practical applications and new ways of working across the US and NOCCs.
Develop and lead integrated change and adoption strategies, including stakeholder engagement, leadership alignment, communications, readiness, capability building, reinforcement, and value sustainment.
Diagnose adoption barriers and design targeted interventions using appropriate change, capability, and behavior-adoption approaches.
Equip leaders and teams with narratives, practical tools, decision support, and capability-building experiences to embed sustained behavior change.
Establish adoption indicators, feedback loops, course-correction mechanisms, and clear ownership and dependencies for implementation.
Build alignment and trusted partnerships across the enterprise to enable collective impact.
Translate complex information, data, and strategic choices into concise executive narratives, recommendations, presentations, visual frameworks, decision materials, and impact summaries.
Create executive-ready content from a blank page and deliver strategic updates tailored to audiences at all levels, clarifying implications, choices, risks, and required actions.
Create functional organization communications, announcements, and change materials, including drafting, formatting, stakeholder review, publishing, and execution.
Design and facilitate senior-leadership discussions, cross-functional working sessions, and programs that support informed decisions, alignment, accountability, and action.
Lead relevant pillar strategic planning, prioritization, and portfolio oversight for the assigned MST, Disease Cluster, portfolio, or COE.
Provide NOCC execution partners with context, strategic direction, timely decisions, and escalation leadership while retaining accountability for strategic coherence, design quality, adoption, and value realization.
Provide cross-functional project partnering or coverage of peer MVEs during planned absences.