Remote Director, AI-Driven Portfolio Prioritization

Legend Biotech USA; East Hanover (NJ); On-site; USD 207,000 - 345,000; Full time

Job summary

Novartis is seeking a Director of Portfolio Prioritization to drive transparency and value across a complex portfolio of initiatives. You will partner with senior leaders to evaluate opportunities, guide portfolio decisions, and accelerate business impact in the realm of strategy, AI, and transformation.

The role focuses on governance, intake processes, and executive-ready insights, with a remote work option and a competitive compensation package including performance-based incentives and

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 intake, prioritization, capacity, dependencies, risk, readiness, governance, and handoffs.
• Strong ability to synthesize strategic, operational, financial, delivery, and resource information into actionable insights.
• Experience leading structured intake and cross-functional review processes evaluating value, alignment, feasibility, readiness, dependencies, risk, and resources.
• Executive communication, problem solving, governance facilitation, and influence across business, tech, data, and Risk/Finance.

Responsibilities

• Lead portfolio reporting across Reimagining Work initiatives, providing transparency into priorities, progress, risks, and outcomes.
• Establish reporting standards, data quality requirements, governance processes, and portfolio performance metrics.
• Develop executive-ready insights that inform strategic decisions, resource allocation, and portfolio prioritization.
• Own the AI use case intake process, ensuring requests are evaluated consistently and aligned to business priorities.
• Partner with stakeholders to refine submissions, clarify requirements, and identify opportunities for solution reuse.
• Facilitate cross-functional reviews involving business, technology, data, and AI stakeholders.
• Assess opportunities based on strategic alignment, value realization, feasibility, readiness, adoption, and risk.
• Prepare governance recommendations and decision packages supported by data, analysis, and business impact.
• Ensure approved initiatives have clear ownership, roadmap alignment, governance oversight, and execution accountability.
• Drive continuous improvement of portfolio governance, intake processes, stakeholder engagement, and decision effectiveness.

Skills

Executive communication

Strategic planning

Portfolio management

Stakeholder orchestration

Governance facilitation

Data-driven insights

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

Novartis is seeking a Director of Portfolio Prioritization to drive transparency and value across a complex portfolio of initiatives. You will partner with senior leaders to evaluate opportunities, guide portfolio decisions, and accelerate business impact in the realm of strategy, AI, and transformation.

The role focuses on governance, intake processes, and executive-ready insights, with a remote work option and a competitive compensation package including performance-based incentives and