Director, Marketing Strategy - Radical Early Action
Novartis
Summary
Shape the future of early detection by transforming enterprise strategy into measurable action that reaches millions of people. The Director, Marketing Strategy - Radical Early Action will lead the translation of enterprise screening strategy into scalable, connected playbooks across Relax, Your Attention Please (YAP), NFL partnerships, and future therapeutic-area expansion. The role will integrate strategy, activation, measurement, and cross-functional governance to drive measurable health action, protect attribution, and enable consistent execution across markets and partners.
Job description
This position will be based in either East Hanover, NJ or the NYC office and will not have the ability to be located remotely. This position will require up to 25% travel as defined by the business (domestic and/or international).
Key Responsibilities
- Enterprise Screening Strategy: Set and operationalize the Radical Early Action and screening strategy, connecting Relax, YAP, NFL, team, and Hall of Fame efforts through a common enterprise model.
- Scalable Playbooks: Translate strategy into reusable playbooks, briefs, ecosystem plans, and market-ready activation guidance that can scale across therapeutic areas and partnerships.
- Cross-Platform Integration: Integrate Relax, YAP, and NFL screening efforts to deliver a cohesive consumer experience and coordinated health-action journey across touchpoints.
- Measurement and Optimization: Define outcomes and endpoints with analytics partners; use screening data, dashboards, market diagnostics, and test-and-learn plans to improve performance and support executive reporting.
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Coordinate agency, advocacy, analytics, medical, legal, content review, media, operations, market access, communications, and therapeutic-area teams to enable aligned and timely delivery.
- Market and Therapeutic-Area Expansion: Identify opportunities to extend screening platforms into additional therapeutic areas, markets, and enterprise partnership ecosystems while maintaining strategic consistency.
- Agency and Workstream Leadership: Lead integrated agency workstreams, scopes, milestones, and deliverables; ensure strategy is translated into high-quality execution.
- Governance and Decision Support: Establish operating discipline, clarify ownership, surface decisions and risks, and provide leadership updates across the screening portfolio.
- Partner and Stakeholder Management: Build strong relationships with external partners and internal stakeholders, align priorities, and resolve issues that could affect readiness or execution.
- Budget and Compliance: Manage resources and budgets responsibly and partner with legal, medical, and review teams to ensure activities meet company and industry requirements.
Essential Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a related field is required; Master of Science and/or MBA preferred
- At least 8 years of experience in commercial Marketing with multi-functional experience in the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry preferred
- Proven experience leading enterprise marketing strategy, health-action or screening initiatives, partnership platforms, or integrated campaigns in a complex organization.
- Ability to translate strategy into scalable operating models, briefs, playbooks, activation plans, and measurable outcomes.
- Strong cross-functional leadership skills, with experience aligning marketing, analytics, advocacy, medical, legal, content review, media, communications, operations, and market teams.
- Strong analytical orientation and experience using performance data, dashboards, market insights, and test-and-learn approaches to optimize programs.
- Experience leading integrated agency teams, complex workstreams, scopes, budgets, and executive-level updates.
- Executive presence, sound judgment, and the ability to influence without direct authority across senior stakeholders and external partners.
- Understanding of consumer journeys, behavior-change principles, omnichannel marketing, and partnership ecosystems.
Desirable Requirements
- Experience in disease state education
- MBA or Master of Science degree preferred
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a related field is required
- At least 8 years of experience in commercial Marketing with multi-functional experience in the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry preferred
- Proven experience leading enterprise marketing strategy, health-action or screening initiatives, partnership platforms, or integrated campaigns in a complex organization
- Ability to translate strategy into scalable operating models, briefs, playbooks, activation plans, and measurable outcomes
- Strong cross-functional leadership skills, with experience aligning marketing, analytics, advocacy, medical, legal, content review, media, communications, operations, and market teams
- Strong analytical orientation and experience using performance data, dashboards, market insights, and test-and-learn approaches to optimize programs
- Experience leading integrated agency teams, complex workstreams, scopes, budgets, and executive-level updates
- Executive presence, sound judgment, and the ability to influence without direct authority across senior stakeholders and external partners
- Understanding of consumer journeys, behavior-change principles, omnichannel marketing, and partnership ecosystems
- Experience in disease state education
- MBA or Master of Science degree preferred
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Disability benefits
- 401(k) with company contribution and match
- Paid time off
- Vacation
- Personal days
- Holidays
- Annual equity awards
- Performance-based cash incentive
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.