Remote Director: AI-Driven Portfolio Prioritization

Novartis; East Hanover (NJ); On-site; USD 186,000 - 345,000; Full time

Job summary

Novartis seeks a Director, Portfolio Prioritization to shape how the organization invests in its priorities. This remote role drives transparency across a complex portfolio of initiatives, guiding decisions, resources, and governance.

You will partner with senior leaders to evaluate opportunities at the intersection of strategy, AI, and enterprise transformation. You will lead portfolio reporting, establish standards, and develop executive-ready insights to inform decisions, while ensuring clear

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field required; advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years in strategic planning, transformation governance, program management, or related fields.
• Experience managing complex portfolios across demand intake, prioritization, risk, governance, and handoff to delivery.
• Strong ability to synthesize strategic, operational, financial, and delivery data into insights.
• Experience leading structured intake and cross-functional review processes.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder orchestration across business, technology, data, finance, risk.

Responsibilities

• Lead portfolio reporting across Reimagining Work initiatives with transparency on priorities and outcomes.
• Establish reporting standards, data quality, governance processes, and metrics.
• Develop executive-ready insights for strategy, resources, and prioritization.
• Own AI use case intake, evaluating requests against business priorities.
• Partner with stakeholders to refine submissions and identify reuse opportunities.
• Facilitate cross-functional reviews among business, technology, data, and AI stakeholders.
• Assess opportunities for strategic alignment, value, feasibility, readiness, and risk.
• Prepare governance recommendations and data-supported decision packages.
• Ensure ownership, roadmap alignment, governance oversight, and execution accountability.
• Drive continuous improvement of portfolio governance and intake processes.

Skills

Strategic planning

Portfolio management

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Governance facilitation

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

Novartis seeks a Director, Portfolio Prioritization to shape how the organization invests in its priorities. This remote role drives transparency across a complex portfolio of initiatives, guiding decisions, resources, and governance.

You will partner with senior leaders to evaluate opportunities at the intersection of strategy, AI, and enterprise transformation. You will lead portfolio reporting, establish standards, and develop executive-ready insights to inform decisions, while ensuring clear