ERC Director GH Programs, Partnerships & Medical Affairs

Major accountabilities:

• Business partnership:  ·      Provides specialized ERC advice on all topics, from early concept discussion to ensure successful achievement of Business Partners’ objectives, safe adoption of innovative solutions and that strategy and tactics meet Novartis high ethical standards, Novartis Code of Ethics, internal policies, local laws and regulations·      Supports Business Partners’ associates through effective training, pragmatic risk management and effective monitoring and oversight frameworks to  foster a culture of integrity.·      Embraces an enterprise-view to connect functions and people, removing silos, managing complexity and co-creating solutions.
• Risk Assessment:  ·      Proactively identifies, assesses, anticipates risks associated to activities conducted by Business Partners to manage and mitigate the risks in a pragmatic and effective manner. ·        Ensures that within these units there is a good understanding of ERC risks.
• Ethics & Integrity: ·      Embeds the Novartis Code of Ethics and help create and sustain an ethical climate, where associates are able to bring their best  to work, speak their mind; and embrace the values of honesty, open-mindedness, courage and accountability. ·      Supports implementation of internal initiatives to foster an ethical culture.·      Supports leaders to strengthen an ethical culture by driving open-minded discussions on dilemmas and creating a safe environment to speak up.·      Fosters a dialogue with our people to do what’s right and emphasizes the importance of protecting the company’s reputation to fulfill our mission to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives.· Shapes the external environment in a thoughtful way, by engaging with relevant stakeholders.
• Acts as an ERC Corporate Functions leadership member in managing and motivating the whole ERC, CFs team; supports team development through feedback and coaching, while creating a positive work environment that fosters collaboration and engagement.
• Cross collaboration:
• Works collaboratively with  all ERC colleagues across the organization to ensure seamless ERC support from strategy to execution; support the “global to countries” flow ensuring alignment of approach, avoid duplication of efforts, clarity and consistency in guardrails, agility in decision making and implementation.
• Serves as a crucial link between teams; helping to align their strategies and operations in the spirit of integrated assurance.
• Acts always in the spirit of “One ERC” to fully leverage the power of our function’s resources to support the business.
• Procedures and Processes: 
• Establishes and advises on compliance standards and processes based on internal policies and guidelines.
• Supports smooth implementation and adoption of Doing Business Ethically and BeSure tool.
• Identifies gaps in the implementation process and creates appropriate CAPAs to drive ethical behavior and compliant conduct.

Minimum Requirements:

Education (minimum/desirable):

Degree in business/law, life science or other compliance-relevant subject

Work Experience:

• Preferred 9-10 years professional experience in a compliance-related role or audit role or legal role or similar valuable experience having acquired a deep understanding of compliance risks and business activities
• In depth understanding of the operations of a pharmaceutical company including medical, value and access, commercial, digital/social media, content management. 
• Strong knowledge of Novartis internal policies and international and local regulatory/compliance requirements.
• Experience with launch & brand strategies, medical governance and medical activities
• Experience with reviewing or approving business material is a plus
• Experience with digital and social media activities is a plus

Skills:

• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to develop trusting relationships with stakeholders
• Strong partnering skills to identify and leverage knowledge from across the organization
• Excellent analytical/reasoning, problem solving, organizational and multi-tasking skills
• Strong policy, process and project management skills
• Knowledge expert of Novartis compliance policies, procedures and how they apply to associates’ roles and responsibilities.
• Excellent presentation skills and executive presence.
• Experience developing content and delivering quality education programs
• Demonstrated ability to establish strong external networks accessed and relationships built with experts in the field, industry peers and regulatory authorities to remain current on compliance and other industry related trends
• Demonstrated ability to prepare and deliver analytical, written and oral communications appropriate for multiple audiences and levels within the organization
• Demonstrated track record of partnering with business to establish a common vision to enhancing business performance

Why Novartis:
Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us! Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

You’ll receive: You can find everything you need to know about our benefits and rewards in the Novartis Life Handbook. https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion: 
Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Accessibility and accommodation 
Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to diversityandincl.india@novartis.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message

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