Job Description

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 Therapy Area (TA) Head for Hematology for the APMA region, you will lead, manage and develop the overall performance of the business franchise/unit\'s current and future product portfolio and deliver sales and profits within agreed budgets. You will also lead and develop a high-performing sales and marketing team and build effective and enduring business relationships with key customers/ stakeholders.

Your Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Manage regional performance of the Hematology portfolio to maximize the aspiration in growth within APMA with product maximization and launch excellence.
• Provide advisory and support to Therapy Area Heads to ensure the right talents in the right roles with the best robust launch preparation and execution excellence to deliver the results in key performance indicators in the growth and profit.
• Build, develop and coach talents within the Hematology to ensure their growth and robust succession pipeline to the critical roles in the TA.
• Drive & deliver on sales performance, growth and revenue of TA priority brands. Define, develop and implement short and long-term strategic marketing and sales plans in line with regional & global marketing strategy.
• Localize global TA strategy and drive launch planning & execution. Define, drive and oversee the launch planning and execution of upcoming key launches by ensuring seamless cross-functional and (as applicable) cross-divisional collaboration.
• Activate new customer engagement model for the respective TA.
• Build long-term partnerships with the TA-related external stakeholders, to deliver joint value.
• Build strong cross functional, agile teams, coach and develop talents. Partner with other franchise heads and support in the development of an agile, customer-led digital and customer solutions strategy which meets the evolving needs of the business, our customers and patients.

Minimum requirements

What you\'ll bring to the role:

• Degree in Life Sciences, Pharmacy, Biomedical or other related discipline.
• Proven success in launching a specialty product, preferable in healthcare & life science industry.
• Successful P&L management experience (bottom and top line). Experience in leading business and/or organizational transformation processes
• Significant exposure in tackling access/reimbursement challenges. Successfully delivered an outcome-oriented targeted customer (patients, HCP`s, healthcare partners, government) engagement initiative based on deep disease area insights.
• Experience in anticipating external market dynamics and translated them successfully into TA strategy.
• Learning agility - Agile, curious, and open-minded to new ideas and diverse ways of thinking.
• Able to understand changing dynamics of Pharmaceutical industry.
• Digital & Technology Savvy

Why Novartis?

Why Novartis? Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people\'s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us! Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

You\'ll receive: You can find everything you need to know about our benefits and rewards in the Novartis Life Handbook. https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards

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Functional Area

Commercial & General Management

Division

Innovative Medicines International & Chief Commercial Office

Business Unit

APMA IMI

Employment Type

Regular

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Shift Work

No

Early Talent

No

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