Director Medical Value & Enablement

Novartis AG; East Hanover (NJ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Novartis AG in East Hanover, NJ seeks a Director of Medical Value & Enablement in US Medical Affairs. This role operates with high autonomy to identify opportunities, craft executive strategies, and realize measurable value across MSTs, clusters, and COEs.

You will lead strategic planning, drive cross-functional transformations, synthesize external trends with internal data, and draft evidence-based recommendations to advance patient impact and strategic coherence.

Responsibilities

• Operate as a trusted, highly autonomous advisor to the Vice President and leadership team, setting the strategic agenda with minimal oversight.
• Independently frames ambiguous business questions, identifies root causes, tests hypotheses, and develops evidence-based points of view.
• Lead strategic planning across MSTs, Disease Clusters, portfolios, and/or COEs, translating priorities into clear choices and measurable outcomes.
• Draft and create high-quality strategies, business cases, roadmaps, frameworks, and executive recommendations from a blank page with subject-matter expertise and rapid iteration.
• Anticipate emerging needs and risks, making timely recommendations with incomplete information to maintain momentum in fast-changing environments.
• Own and orchestrate complex cross-functional transformations from opportunity identification to multi-year value realization.

Job description

Job Description Summary

The Director, Medical Value & Enablement (MVE) is a highly autonomous strategic advisor, thought leader, and transformation architect within US Medical Affairs. Operating with minimal day-to-day leadership oversight, the Director independently identifies enterprise-critical opportunities, frames complex and ambiguous challenges, develops original points of view, and creates executive-ready strategies from concept to measurable value realization.

The Director is expected to lead through expertise, influence, and sound judgment rather than positional authority. The role rapidly synthesizes external trends, internal data, stakeholder insight, and emerging AI capabilities to challenge assumptions, generate differentiated solutions, and make clear recommendations. Success requires consulting-level problem solving, exceptional learning agility, disciplined experimentation, and the confidence to independently draft, design, build, and advance high-impact work without waiting for detailed direction. The role retains strategic accountability at the MST, Disease Cluster, portfolio, and/or COE level while orchestrating execution across NOCCs, and remains accountable for strategic coherence, decision quality, fit-for-purpose design, stakeholder adoption, capability uplift, and sustained business, organizational, and patient-impact value.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Planning and Advisory

• Operate as a trusted, highly autonomous advisor to the respective Vice President and leadership team, setting the strategic agenda within the role’s mandate and advancing priorities with minimal day-to-day oversight.
• Independently frames ambiguous business questions, identify root causes, establish hypotheses, and develops original, evidence-based points of view that challenge conventional thinking and expand strategic options.
• Lead strategic planning across MSTs, Disease Clusters, portfolios, and/or COEs, translating enterprise and US Medical Affairs priorities into clear choices, integrated plans, decision rights, and measurable outcomes.
• Draft and create high-quality strategies, business cases, roadmaps, frameworks, and executive recommendations from a blank page if required, using subject-matter expertise, sound judgment, relevant data, and rapid iteration.
• Anticipate emerging needs and risks, make timely recommendations with incomplete information, and maintain momentum in fast-changing environments without waiting for detailed direction.

Transformation Leadership and Strategic Orchestration

• Own and orchestrate complex, cross-functional transformations from opportunity identification and strategy through design, activation, adoption, and multi-year value realization.