Director of Enterprise Partnerships & Screening Strategy

Novartis AG; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 345,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Disability coverage

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Novartis seeks a Director of Enterprise Partnerships to translate screening strategy into scalable playbooks and governance across Relax, YAP, NFL partnerships, and future areas. The role coordinates multiple functions to drive measurable health action and ensure consistent execution across markets.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in pharma marketing with proven enterprise strategy experience and the ability to lead cross-functional teams, external partners, and budgets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field; MS and/or MBA preferred.
• 8+ years of experience in commercial Marketing with multi-functional experience in pharma/healthcare 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Translate strategy into reusable playbooks, briefs, ecosystem plans, and market-ready activation guidance that can scale across therapeutic areas and partnerships.
• Integrate Relax, YAP, and NFL screening efforts to deliver a cohesive consumer experience and coordinated health-action journey across touchpoints.
• 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.
• Coordinate agency, advocacy, analytics, medical, legal, content review, media, operations, market access, communications, and therapeutic-area teams to enable aligned and timely delivery.
• Identify opportunities to extend screening platforms into additional therapeutic areas, markets, and enterprise partnership ecosystems while maintaining strategic consistency.
• Lead integrated agency workstreams, scopes, milestones, and deliverables; ensure strategy is translated into high-quality execution.
• Establish operating discipline, clarify ownership, surface decisions and risks, and provide leadership updates across the screening portfolio.
• Build strong relationships with external partners and internal stakeholders, align priorities, and resolve issues that could affect readiness or execution.
• Manage resources and budgets responsibly and partner with legal, medical, and review teams to ensure activities meet company and industry requirements.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic thinking

Marketing strategy

Data-driven decisions

Agency management

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Master of Science

MBA

Job description

Novartis seeks a Director of Enterprise Partnerships to translate screening strategy into scalable playbooks and governance across Relax, YAP, NFL partnerships, and future areas. The role coordinates multiple functions to drive measurable health action and ensure consistent execution across markets.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in pharma marketing with proven enterprise strategy experience and the ability to lead cross-functional teams, external partners, and budgets.