Remote Enterprise Transformation & Value Realization Lead

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

Job summary

Novartis is seeking an Executive Director, Portfolio Prioritization & Value Realization Lead. This role can be remote anywhere in the U.S., with potential limitations by entity.

You will drive strategic portfolio decisions, create transparency around realized value, and ensure resources align with transformational initiatives across Finance, Strategy, Technology, and business units. You will partner with senior leaders to validate business cases, develop governance, and deliver scenario analyses

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, analytics, or life sciences.
• 12+ years of experience in portfolio management or related leadership roles.
• Experience in pharma, biotech, healthcare, technology, or consulting with high-volume intake and AI/digital case review.
• Proven ability to build portfolio governance, intake, prioritization logic, decision forums, value taxonomies, scorecards, and executive reporting.
• Experience challenging business cases, baselines, assumptions, benefit ownership, and risk management.

Responsibilities

• Lead the integrated transformation portfolio across priorities, capacity, value, dependencies, risk, and readiness.
• Drive portfolio prioritization decisions to maximize business impact and strategic value realization.
• Recommend sequencing and investment trade-offs to optimize transformation outcomes and resource allocation.
• Establish and govern enterprise-wide value realization frameworks, metrics, and benefit tracking processes.
• Partner with Finance to validate business cases, benefit assumptions, baselines, and performance measures.
• Deliver actionable portfolio insights and scenario analyses to support executive decision-making.
• Identify risks, value leakage, capacity constraints, and execution challenges; drive corrective actions.
• Oversee AI-use-case intake, triage, governance, and cross-functional review processes.
• Foster alignment across Strategy, Finance, Technology, and business leaders on transformation priorities.
• Build and lead a high-performing team that promotes rigor, transparency, and results-driven execution.

Skills

Portfolio management

Analytics

Financial acumen

Executive reporting

AI-use-case triage

Education

Bachelor's degree in business/finance/analytics

MBA or advanced degree preferred

Tools

Power BI/Tableau

Portfolio management tools

AI-use-case triage

Job description

Novartis is seeking an Executive Director, Portfolio Prioritization & Value Realization Lead. This role can be remote anywhere in the U.S., with potential limitations by entity.

You will drive strategic portfolio decisions, create transparency around realized value, and ensure resources align with transformational initiatives across Finance, Strategy, Technology, and business units. You will partner with senior leaders to validate business cases, develop governance, and deliver scenario analyses