Associate Director, Data Systems & AI, Enterprise Competitive Intelligence

Novartis Farmacéutica; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Novartis Farmacéutica is seeking a leader in Enterprise Competitive Intelligence (ECI) to gather and interpret competitive data across the pipeline and strategic portfolio. You will shape CI data systems and the AI agenda, ensuring data is accessible, searchable, and usable by AI, and drive AI-enabled workflows that improve speed, quality and enterprise leverage.

Based in Hyderabad, you will bridge ECI with business-unit insights teams, DDIT, NKC and external partners to deliver pragmatic

Job description

#LI-HybridLocation: Hyderabad, India

About The Role

Enterprise Competitive Intelligence (ECI) is responsible for gathering, assessing, organizing, and delivering timely, relevant, high-quality competitive intelligence that supports Novartis pipeline, portfolio, and strategic decision-making. As ECI moves from a service-provider model toward a strategic partnership model, the function needs scalable data systems, governed repositories, and AI-enabled workflows that make validated CI accessible, reusable, and useful across business units. In this role you will shape and govern the ECI data systems and AI agenda: building and leading the CI knowledge layer, ensuring CI data is available, searchable, API-ready and usable by AI, and enabling repeatable AI-assisted workflows that improve speed, quality, consistency and enterprise leverage. The role will act as the bridge between ECI, business-unit insights teams, Data Digital & IT (DDIT), enterprise knowledge management teams (e.g. NKC), and relevant external partners to deliver pragmatic solutions while preparing ECI for future AI-enabled ways of working.