Director, Portfolio Prioritization
About The Position
This position can be based remotely anywhere in the U.S. (there may be some restrictions based on legal entity). Please note that this role would not provide relocation as a result. The expectation of working hours and travel (domestic and/or international) will be defined by the hiring manager. Are you passionate about shaping how an organization invests in its most important priorities? As Director, Portfolio Prioritization, you will play a critical role in driving the future of Novartis' Reimagining Work transformation by creating transparency across a complex portfolio of initiatives and helping ensure the highest-value opportunities receive the right focus, resources, and governance. Working at the intersection of strategy, innovation, artificial intelligence, and enterprise transformation, you'll partner with senior leaders across the organization to evaluate emerging opportunities, guide portfolio decisions, and help accelerate meaningful business impact. This is a unique opportunity to influence how work gets done across Novartis while advancing transformative solutions that improve outcomes for our people and patients.
Requirements
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in a related field required. Advanced degree preferred.
- 10+ years of experience in strategic planning, transformation governance, program management, business operations, management consulting, digital/AI portfolio management, or a related field.
- Demonstrated experience managing complex portfolios across demand intake, prioritization, capacity, dependencies, risk, readiness, governance, performance reporting, and accountable handoff to delivery teams.
- Strong analytical ability to synthesize strategic, operational, financial, delivery, and resource information into clear portfolio insights, trade-offs, and decision-ready recommendations.
- Experience leading structured intake and cross-functional review processes, including assessing business value, strategic alignment, feasibility, readiness, duplication, dependencies, risk, and resource requirements.
- Strong executive communication, structured problem solving, stakeholder orchestration, governance facilitation, and influence without authority across business, technology, data, Finance, risk, and enabling functions.
Nice To Haves
- Advanced degree preferred.
Responsibilities
- Lead portfolio reporting across Reimagining Work initiatives, providing transparency into priorities, progress, risks, and outcomes.
- Establish reporting standards, data quality requirements, governance processes, and portfolio performance metrics.
- Develop executive-ready insights that inform strategic decisions, resource allocation, and portfolio prioritization.
- Own the AI use case intake process, ensuring requests are evaluated consistently and aligned to business priorities.
- Partner with stakeholders to refine submissions, clarify requirements, and identify opportunities for solution reuse.
- Facilitate cross-functional reviews involving business, technology, data, and artificial intelligence stakeholders.
- Assess opportunities based on strategic alignment, value realization, feasibility, readiness, adoption, and risk.
- Prepare governance recommendations and decision packages supported by data, analysis, and business impact.
- Ensure approved initiatives have clear ownership, roadmap alignment, governance oversight, and execution accountability.
- Drive continuous improvement of portfolio governance, intake processes, stakeholder engagement, and decision effectiveness.
Benefits
- health, life and disability benefits
- a 401(k) with company contribution and match
- a variety of other benefits
- a generous time off package including vacation, personal days, holidays and other leaves
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
