Digital Medicines Head, Pharma

Location: Basel, Switzerland
Job Type: Full-Time
Employer: Novartis
The Digital Medicines Head is responsible for leveraging world-class digital medicines capabilities to transform how we deliver value to our customers at scale. You will enrich and improve the patient journey and experience through digital interventions to accelerate access to treatment, reduce pain points, increase awareness of medicines and improve treatment adherence. You will expand healthcare solutions beyond the drug and solve future patient challenges by gaining real-time data and real-world evidence through digital solutions and technologies and enable future launch success by addressing key customer needs across the entire customer journey prior to, during and post launch.

We are looking for a self-aware, inspired and curious leader who empowers and supports others in an unbossed manner. This leader should have a strong focus on people development and help teams collaborate in a matrix organization.

Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Deliver a clear and compelling vision and strategy for the digital patient journey vision that aligns and enriches the commercial portfolio and enables launch excellence and execution, taking the business with them
  • Inspire and empower the team in an unbossed leadership manner allowing people to be at their best to deliver on the digital vision and strategy
  • Ensure co-creation and tight collaboration with key stakeholders including Commercial, Medical and Access and execution in close partnership with the Regions and Countries
  • Create a clear plan to build innovative digital solutions that deliver desired outcomes and includes a multichannel approach
  • Create platform solutions that can join up Health Care Professionals / patients / health systems seamlessly, and can be leveraged across various brands or launches to deliver business impact
  • Build internal capabilities to enable re-thinking and/or enhancing of go-to-market strategies
  • Identify and collaborate with external partners to identify optimal digital solutions and solve digital challenges most applicable to the patient journey and commercial excellence
  • Ensure scalability and future deployment of digital solutions in key markets

Minimum requirements

What you'll bring to the role:
  • University degree in business and/or innovation technology (preferred)
  • 10+ years of Business experience (ideally in the health care industry), including 5+ years digital experience
  • Inspirational leadership with high level of self-awareness and curiosity with focus on empowering others, people development and collaboration in a matrix
  • Digital marketing experience with proven track record of success and knowledge of User/patients Experience (UX) and customer experience, and applicable customer-oriented digital healthcare solutions at scale
  • Prior experience creating and utilizing digital solutions to solve challenging and complex problems and to generate revenue
  • Previous experience managing digital platforms, technology and large-scale data
  • Innovative and entrepreneurial mindset with ability to turn opportunities into high value outcomes

Apply for this job

About Novartis

Novartis is reimagining medicine to improve and extend people's lives. As a leading global medicines company, we use innovative science and digital technologies to create transformative treatments in areas of great medical need. In our quest to find new medicines, we consistently rank among the world's top companies investing in research and development. Novartis products reach more than 750 million people globally and we are finding innovative ways to expand access to our latest treatments. About 105,000 people of more than 140 nationalities work at Novartis around the world.

Post your job offer now to start hiring the best digital health talent! For further information, please contact us.

Most Popular Now

Researchers Invent AI Model to Design Ne…

Researchers at McMaster University and Stanford University have invented a new generative artificial intelligence (AI) model which can design billions of new antibiotic molecules that are inexpensive and easy to...

Two Artificial Intelligences Talk to Eac…

Performing a new task based solely on verbal or written instructions, and then describing it to others so that they can reproduce it, is a cornerstone of human communication that...

Powerful New AI can Predict People'…

A powerful new tool in artificial intelligence is able to predict whether someone is willing to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The predictive system uses a small set of data from demographics...

AI-Based App can Help Physicians Find Sk…

A mobile app that uses artificial intelligence, AI, to analyse images of suspected skin lesions can diagnose melanoma with very high precision. This is shown in a study led from...

Greater Manchester Reaches New Milestone…

Radiologists and radiographers at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust have become the first in Greater Manchester to use the Sectra picture archiving and communication system (PACS) to report on...

Alcidion and Novari Health Forge Strateg…

Alcidion Group Limited, a leading provider of FHIR-native patient flow solutions for healthcare, and Novari Health, a market leader in waitlist management and referral management technologies, have joined forces to...

Researchers Develop Deep Learning Model …

Researchers have developed a new, interpretable artificial intelligence (AI) model to predict 5-year breast cancer risk from mammograms, according to a new study published today in Radiology, a journal of...

ChatGPT can Produce Medical Record Notes…

The AI model ChatGPT can write administrative medical notes up to ten times faster than doctors without compromising quality. This is according to a new study conducted by researchers at...

Can Language Models Read the Genome? Thi…

The same class of artificial intelligence that made headlines coding software and passing the bar exam has learned to read a different kind of text - the genetic code. That code...

Advancing Drug Discovery with AI: Introd…

A transformative study published in Health Data Science, a Science Partner Journal, introduces a groundbreaking end-to-end deep learning framework, known as Knowledge-Empowered Drug Discovery (KEDD), aimed at revolutionizing the field...

Wanted: Young Talents. DMEA Sparks Bring…

9 - 11 April 2024, Berlin, Germany. The digital health industry urgently needs skilled workers, which is why DMEA sparks focuses on careers, jobs and supporting young people. Against the backdrop of...

Study Shows Human Medical Professionals …

When looking for medical information, people can use web search engines or large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT-4 or Google Bard. However, these artificial intelligence (AI) tools have their limitations...