Global Head Global Clinical Supply (m/f/d)

Novartis AG; Basel; On-site; CHF 208,000 - 386,000; Full time

Job summary

Novartis AG in Basel, Switzerland, seeks the Global Head Global Clinical Supply to lead end-to-end clinical supply performance, ensuring medicines reach patients on time and enabling development portfolio delivery. This role defines the GCS strategy and drives transformation toward integrated, data-driven supply orchestration.

As a member of the TRD Global Leadership Team, you will align clinical and technical decisions, oversee digital adoption, governance, and ensure quality, compliance and

Responsibilities

• Owns global clinical supply strategy and end-to-end performance.
• Leads digital transformation of the clinical supply chain.
• Ensures regulatory compliance, quality, and patient supply continuity.

Job description

Salary Range:

CHF207,900.00 - CHF386,100.00

Job Description Summary

Location: Basel, Switzerland #onsite

Role Purpose:

The Global Head Global Clinical Supply is accountable for global, end-to-end clinical supply performance, ensuring Novartis medicines reach patients on time, every time and enabling successful delivery of the development portfolio. The role sets GCS strategic direction and translates it into supply strategies, investment priorities and organizational capabilities that deliver reliable execution and sustainable value. As the strategic interface between clinical and technical teams, the role aligns enterprise decisions and partnerships to anticipate risk, navigate complexity and respond to evolving portfolio needs. The role leads a significant digital and organizational transformation, moving GCS from manual coordination towards integrated, data-driven and AI-enabled supply orchestration. It owns adoption and business outcomes-not technology implementation alone-while safeguarding quality, compliance and uninterrupted patient supply. As a member of the TRD Global Leadership Team, the role shapes TRD strategy and builds the leadership, capabilities and culture required to sustain performance through transformation.

Job Description

Patient supply accountability , strategy and enterprise partnerships

Is ultimately accountable to ensure the availability of our medicines worldwide for all global and local clinical studies by driving an agile Clinical Supply Chain through streamlined and robust processes and systems; As a member of TRD Global Leadership Team, actively contribute to TRD strategy, vision and operations; represent TRD at cross-functional decision-/ governance boards (as appropriate). Establish and maintain strong business relations and interfaces to key partners and stakeholders outside TRD such as Development Operations / Clinical, BR;

Digital transformation , data, AI and change

Seeks for opportunities & drives continuous performance improvement programs on the supply chain structure, organization, processes and supporting systems to ensure optimal positioning of GCS organization towards future trends; Leads the significant digital transformation of the end-to-end clinical supply chain, building on the LDC/SAP S4 and IC SMC foundation. Embeds process simplification, standardization, clear ownership and operational discipline before scaling advanced analytics, intelligent automation and AI-enabled workflows. Prioritizes high-value use cases across planning, sourcing, packaging, labelling and distribution, and drives sustained adoption, integration into daily work and measurable business impact; Owns business accountability for the integrated GCS digital, systems and data landscape, in partnership with Digital CMC and enterprise technology teams. Establishes clear data ownership and stewardship, robust data quality and reusable data products to enable trusted analytics, predictive planning and scalable AI adoption;

Supply governance, execution, compliance and financial performance

Ensures cross-functional demand and supply oversight and governance, Ensure optimal resource allocation and appropriate make vs. Leads cross-functional, end-to-end demand and supply oversight and decision governance through TRD-level Clinical Sales and Operations Planning (CS&OP), enabling consolidated visibility, scenario-based prioritization and timely decisions across demand, supply, packaging and distribution. Ensures optimal resource allocation and make-versus-buy decisions aligned with portfolio priorities, capacity, technology strategy, supply risk and sustainable value; Ensure embedding best practices on key processes such as global development project planning (incl. life-cycle management), warehouse & distribution logistics execution. Ensures scalable capabilities for increasing portfolio and modality complexity, including radioligand therapies, and the timely integration of new assets and platforms through robust planning, compliant logistics and trade flows, and effective strategic vendor management. Ensures fully compliant processes and execution within our quality systems regulations such as but not limited to product quality and compliance, HSE, good logistics practices, security, finance and accounting; Ensure compliance and target achievement in areas of Cost, Quality (GMP & GCP) and Supply/ Delivery Performance; Embeds a balanced performance framework covering patient supply reliability, right-first-time execution, end-to-end lead times, inventory efficiency, productivity and environmental sustainability. Drives waste and CO₂ reduction without compromising quality, compliance or continuity of patient supply Owns the prioritization and financial stewardship of the GCS transformation portfolio, aligning investment and resource allocation with business value. Establishes benefits tracking for productivity, capacity, lead times, inventory, waste and external spend, distinguishing planned be