ED, Portfolio Prioritization & Value Realization Lead
About The Position
The ED, Portfolio Prioritization & Value Realization Lead will shape how Novartis prioritizes transformational investments and realizes measurable business impact. The role leads enterprise-wide portfolio decisions and value realization, ensuring strategic transformation initiatives receive the focus, resources, and governance needed to deliver meaningful outcomes. It works across senior leaders, Finance, Strategy, Technology, and business functions to create transparency, influence priorities, and turn strategic ambitions into sustainable results. The position is based at the East Hanover, New Jersey site and cannot be performed remotely. Travel is required as defined by the business, which may include domestic and/or international travel.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in business, finance, economics, analytics, life sciences, healthcare, engineering, technology, or a related discipline.
- 12+ years of experience in portfolio management, enterprise PMO, transformation office, strategy execution, finance, consulting, business operations, or value-realization leadership.
- Experience in pharma, biotech, healthcare, technology, or consulting organizations with high-volume intake, AI/digital case review, transformation funding, and benefits realization.
- Ability to build portfolio governance, intake, prioritization logic, decision forums, value taxonomies, scorecards, and executive reporting for a complex transformation portfolio.
- Experience challenging business cases, baselines, assumptions, benefit ownership, double-counting risk, capacity constraints, and readiness gaps.
- Strong financial and analytical experience, including scenario analysis across value, capacity, timing, risk, dependencies, and investment trade-offs.
- Ability to create fact-based transparency and drive enterprise-level decisions when demand exceeds capacity or evidence does not support investment.
- Skills in portfolio prioritization, value-realization design, business-case challenge, financial acumen, KPI and benefits tracking, governance design, executive reporting, scenario modeling, stakeholder influence, and risk and dependency management.
Nice To Haves
- MBA, MS, or equivalent advanced degree.
- Experience partnering with Finance, Strategy, Commercial, Technology, P&O, Legal, ERC, and business leaders on prioritization and portfolio governance.
- Experience with transformation analytics, Power BI/Tableau, portfolio management tools, AI-use-case triage, and product/Agile portfolio models.
Responsibilities
- Lead the integrated transformation portfolio across priorities, capacity, value, dependencies, risk, and readiness.
- Drive portfolio prioritization decisions to maximize business impact and strategic value realization.
- Recommend sequencing and investment trade-offs to optimize transformation outcomes and resource allocation.
- Establish and govern enterprise-wide value realization frameworks, metrics, and benefit-tracking processes.
- Partner with Finance to validate business cases, benefit assumptions, baselines, and performance measures.
- Deliver actionable portfolio insights and scenario analyses to support executive decision-making.
- Identify risks, value leakage, capacity constraints, and execution challenges, and drive corrective actions.
- Oversee artificial intelligence use case intake, triage, governance, and cross-functional review processes.
- Foster alignment across Strategy, Finance, Technology, and business leaders on transformation priorities.
- Build and lead a high-performing team that promotes rigor, transparency, and results-driven execution.
Benefits
- Performance-based cash incentive.
- Depending on role level, eligibility to be considered for annual equity awards.
- Health, life, and disability benefits for eligible US-based employees.
- 401(k) with company contribution and match.
- Generous time off package including vacation, personal days, holidays, and other leaves.
- Other benefits as part of a comprehensive benefits package.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
