Executive Director, US Strategic Projects & Delivery

Legend Biotech USA; East Hanover (NJ); On-site; USD 237,000 - 439,000; Full time

Job summary

Novartis is seeking an ED, US Strategic Projects Lead based in East Hanover, NJ. You will oversee the US Strategy & Execution team, ensuring high-priority projects are framed, resourced, governed, and delivered with measurable impact.

The role interfaces with senior leaders and leads a core team to deliver four US strategic projects per quarter. Requires 12+ years of strategic leadership and advanced degrees are preferred.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in strategy-related roles such as strategy consulting, corporate strategy, or enterprise transformation.
• Proven ability to lead multiple high-profile strategic initiatives in a matrix environment with senior stakeholders and no direct authority.
• Strong portfolio leadership, executive communication, facilitation, problem framing, change navigation, and business impact orientation.

Responsibilities

• Define the US Strategic Projects operating model, engagement intake standards, staffing model, project cadence, stage gates, and quality bar.
• Select, scope, and mobilize priority strategic projects with sponsors, ensuring each has a clear problem statement, measurable outcome, decision path, and execution owner.
• Lead the portfolio of strategic projects, managing throughput, capacity, risks, dependencies, and leadership escalations.
• Guide Directors and project teams through ambiguous, high-stakes work requiring structured problem solving, data-backed recommendations, and cross-functional alignment.
• Ensure project outputs move beyond recommendations to implementation-ready roadmaps, KPIs, owners, and governance handoffs.
• Build internal strategy project capability and reduce reliance on external consultants for recurring strategic work.

Skills

Executive communication

Problem framing

Cross-functional collaboration

Change management

Facilitation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree / MBA

Job description

Novartis is seeking an ED, US Strategic Projects Lead based in East Hanover, NJ. You will oversee the US Strategy & Execution team, ensuring high-priority projects are framed, resourced, governed, and delivered with measurable impact.

The role interfaces with senior leaders and leads a core team to deliver four US strategic projects per quarter. Requires 12+ years of strategic leadership and advanced degrees are preferred.