Director, Intelligence Modernization & Productivity
Novartis
Summary
The US Insights & Analytics (I&A) organization engineers the optimal decision environment for the US business by orchestrating, integrating, and synthesizing insights and analytics across therapeutic areas, functions, and the enterprise. Enterprise I&A drives enterprise decision environments through integrated executive analytics and portfolio insights that enable the organization to prioritize investments, track performance, and shape strategic direction.
Job description
Job Description Summary
The US Insights & Analytics (I&A) organization engineers the optimal decision environment for the US business by orchestrating, integrating, and synthesizing insights and analytics across therapeutic areas, functions, and the enterprise. Enterprise I&A drives enterprise decision environments through integrated executive analytics and portfolio insights that enable the organization to prioritize investments, track performance, and shape strategic direction.
The Director, Intelligence Modernization & Productivity leads the strategy, governance, prioritization, and continuous evolution of enterprise analytics modernization and productivity capabilities. Partner closely with the AI & Platform Products organization within Strategy, Platforms & Technology (SPT) and business stakeholders to transform analytics operating models, modernize workflows, accelerate adoption of AI-enabled ways of working, and improve efficiency, scalability, quality, and business impact.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as the enterprise business owner for analytics modernization, analytics productivity, process transformation, and analytics workflow reengineering, including modernization standards, operating model transformation, process redesign frameworks, productivity initiatives, workflow requirements, governance processes, prioritization frameworks, capability roadmaps, and enterprise modernization assets.
- Act as the primary business counterpart to AI & Platform Products within SPT for modernization priorities, business requirements, adoption strategies, and value realization.
- Operate within a globally integrated capability model and share accountability with HYD counterparts through common standards, coordinated roadmaps, reusable solutions, and shared outcomes.
- Define and maintain the enterprise analytics modernization strategy and roadmap.
- Align modernization priorities with enterprise analytics, AI, productivity, and workforce transformation objectives.
- Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, and modernize analytics workflows and operating models.
- Own the modernization capability backlog, roadmap, intake, prioritization, trade-off decisions, capacity planning, and value realization process.
- Establish governance frameworks, standards, methodologies, reusable patterns, reference workflows, and operating principles.
- Define the future-state analytics operating model, including AI-enabled workflows, human-plus-agent ways of working, and scalable delivery models.
- Establish adoption, change management, and measurement frameworks for modernization initiatives.
- Partner with HYD counterparts to jointly define priorities, standards, roadmaps, requirements, and reusable assets.
Essential Requirements
- Minimum 8+ years of experience in analytics, business transformation, process improvement, automation, productivity, operations, or related disciplines.
- Bachelor's degree required.
- Advanced degree in Business, Analytics, Data Science, Engineering, Technology, Operations, Organizational Effectiveness, or a related field preferred.
- Fluent English; other languages desirable.
- Experience leading cross-functional transformation, modernization, operating model, workforce evolution, organizational change, or adoption initiatives.
- Experience translating business objectives into scalable analytics, workflow, and technology capabilities and establishing governance frameworks or standards.
- Experience managing roadmaps, backlogs, prioritization processes, agile delivery partnerships, and partnerships across analytics, technology, product, and business organizations.
- Pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, life sciences, AI-enabled workflows, digital transformation, or enterprise process modernization experience preferred.
Requirements
- Minimum 8+ years of experience in analytics, business transformation, process improvement, automation, productivity, operations, or related disciplines
- Bachelor's degree required
- Advanced degree in Business, Analytics, Data Science, Engineering, Technology, Operations, Organizational Effectiveness, or a related field preferred
- Fluent English; other languages desirable
- Experience leading cross-functional transformation, modernization, operating model, workforce evolution, organizational change, or adoption initiatives
- Experience translating business objectives into scalable analytics, workflow, and technology capabilities and establishing governance frameworks or standards
- Experience managing roadmaps, backlogs, prioritization processes, agile delivery partnerships, and partnerships across analytics, technology, product, and business organizations
- Pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, life sciences, AI-enabled workflows, digital transformation, or enterprise process modernization experience preferred
Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Disability Benefits
- 401(k) Matching
- Vacation
- Personal Days
- Holidays
- Performance-Based Cash Incentive
- Annual Equity Awards
Company overview
Novartis is a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, dedicated to reimagining medicine to improve and extend people's lives. As an innovative medicines company, Novartis focuses on developing high-value treatments that address society's greatest disease burdens through technology leadership in research and development. The company operates across five core therapeutic areas: cardiovascular, renal and metabolic diseases; immunology; neuroscience; oncology; and hematology. With a workforce of approximately 75,883 employees worldwide, Novartis reaches nearly 300 million patients across 118 countries. The company leverages advanced technology platforms including targeted protein degradation, cell therapy, gene therapy, radioligand therapy, and xRNA to develop breakthrough treatments. Novartis maintains a strong portfolio of oncology drugs and generics while continuously expanding its pipeline through strategic acquisitions and internal research. The company's commitment extends beyond drug development to ensuring global access to medical innovations through novel access approaches and patient assistance programs.