TA Head, Neuroscience, APMA

at  Novartis

SUMMARY

4! The 4 essential elements that shape our culture: Inspired. Curious. Unbossed. Integrity. Our mission is to discover new ways to improve and extend peoples’ lives. Your passion to build, execute business plans to meet the sales goals, develop effective professional business relationships with Healthcare Professionals will help the world understand what these medicines do, why they matter and how Novartis is striving to reimagine medicine. As TA Head of Neuroscience, APMA, you will be responsible for a consistent, cross-functional brand strategy shaping and implementation, for all assets as well as evolve globally created early brand strategies, such as the Integrated Product Strategies (IPS) into a competitive, truly cross-functional launch plan that is fit-for-purpose for core IMI markets and sets a foundation of launch success for Novartis’ next blockbusters.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Degree in Life Sciences, Pharmacy, Biomedical or other related field.
• 10 years of experience and proven track-record of P&L and commercial management responsibility within the pharmaceutical industry
• Proven sales and marketing management skills
• Strong understanding of country regulatory and market environments
• Strategic approach and high learning agility. Able to think innovatively. Strong analytical skills and business acumen, able to bring outside-in perspectives.
• Structured and organized, hands-on and detail oriented.
• Able to engage with senior customers and lead by influence. Courage and speak up.
• Resilient, results-oriented, calm under pressure. Excellent communicator, culturally adaptive, can work effectively across different levels within the matrix

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES:

Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Lead strategic, cross-functional decisions for International and above-brand strategic initiatives, incl. partnerships, policy shaping, and for launched assets, will monitor and respond to major events and competitive landscape developments.
• Close interaction with core IMI markets, collaboration with MAP and CE&E teams to shape launch deliverables and TA-relevant customer experiences/ journeys and campaigns/ content for major IMI markets, and with respective IM-US counterpart to ensure consistent brand positioning worldwide, leverage learnings and transferable practices.
• Lead, manage and develop the overall performance of the TAs current and future product portfolio and deliver sales and profits within agreed budgets
• Lead and develop a high-performing sales and marketing team and build effective and enduring business relationships with key customers/ stakeholders.
• Ensures appropriate compliance against company policies and procedures. Responsible for the budget and financial performance of the unit.
• Develop and implement a regional strategic and operational plan for the TA in close collaboration with local and global teams. Closely follow competitors on the market and provides local marketers with tools to evaluate and counteract competitive entrance on the market.
• Work with external key opinion leaders in the field to implement projects to optimize patient management and drive the TA forward.
• Reporting of technical complaints / adverse events / special case scenarios related to Novartis products within 24 hours of receipt -Distribution of marketing samples (where applicable)