Transformation Portfolio Lead – Value Realization & Strategy

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

Job summary

Novartis AG in East Hanover, NJ seeks an ED, Portfolio Prioritization & Value Realization Lead to drive enterprise-wide transformation initiatives. This role focuses on prioritization, governance, and delivering measurable business impact across Finance, Strategy, and Technology functions.

The position requires leading senior-level initiatives with domestic and international scope and involves collaboration across executive stakeholders to optimize resource allocation and ensure value

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in business/finance/analytics or related field.
• MBA/MS or equivalent advanced degree preferred.
• 12+ years in portfolio management, enterprise PMO or related leadership.
• Experience in pharma/healthcare, AI/digital case review, and benefits realization.
• Proven ability to build governance, intake, prioritization, and executive reporting.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Portfolio management

Finance analytics

Executive reporting

Scenario modeling

Risk & dependency management

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, finance, economics, analytics, life sciences, healthcare, engineering, technology

MBA, MS or equivalent advanced degree

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Portfolio tools

Job description

Novartis AG in East Hanover, NJ seeks an ED, Portfolio Prioritization & Value Realization Lead to drive enterprise-wide transformation initiatives. This role focuses on prioritization, governance, and delivering measurable business impact across Finance, Strategy, and Technology functions.

The position requires leading senior-level initiatives with domestic and international scope and involves collaboration across executive stakeholders to optimize resource allocation and ensure value