Associate Director, Field Execution Lead
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Associate Director driving field execution for therapeutic initiatives at Novartis. Ensuring strong execution health, shared accountability, and continuous improvement through strategic partnerships.
Responsibilities:
- Own end-to-end execution for assigned Therapeutic Area(s)
- Serve as the single point of accountability for field execution once initiatives go live
- Monitor execution health and assess field readiness as initiatives move from deployment into sustained operation
- Translate execution health signals into informed decisions and corrective actions
- Proactively identify risks, friction, or breakdowns and navigate timely escalation and resolution
- Partner with planning, enablement, and infrastructure teams to ensure processes, tools, training, and sequencing are in place ahead of field deployment
- Capture insights and lessons learned from execution to continuously strengthen FOPE standards
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree required from 4-year college or university
- 6+ years’ experience of commercial execution, field operations, launch management or complex enterprise delivery roles in pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare or similarly structured industries
- Demonstrated ability to lead and deliver execution outcomes in complex, multi-stakeholder, matrixed environments
- Experience working within structured governance, operating rhythms, and clear decision frameworks to drive results
- Strong judgment and communication skills
- Confidence operating in visible, change-intensive settings
Benefits:
- Health insurance
- Life and disability benefits
- 401(k) with company contribution and match
- Generous time off package including vacation, personal days, holidays and other leaves
- Performance-based cash incentive
- Eligibility for annual equity awards
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