Global Program Head, Neuroscience Drug Development (MD, PHD) Job ID REQ-10041876
Mar 19, 2025
USA
Summary Location: East Hanover, New Jersey, NYC, NY Hybrid #LI-Hybrid. About the role: As the Global Program Head, Neuroscience, you will have a critical impact on delivering innovation, which drives Novartis’ mission to embark on a journey to reimagine medicine. In this role, you will lead programs through the end-to-end development cycle to seek successful registration and market access. This includes all medical and scientific aspects of clinical trials, programs, and studies from the design phase through implementation and finalization to include scientific and medical input into the final review and sign-off of all pertinent clinical trials.
About the Role Your Key Responsibilities:
Establish program strategy and execute implementation through milestones and decision points by leveraging cross-functional teams.
Drive and implement short- and long-term project vision and strategy, ensuring alignment across global functions, regions, and CPOs regarding strategy and direction. Communicate clear strategy to program team and functions and ensure that it is reflected in the operation.
Key contributor to the development leadership team and influence the direction of the area of responsibility with a long-term approach. May be responsible for strategy at the disease area level encompassing multiple indications, spanning multiple products.
Lead a multidisciplinary team of functional experts focused on securing global regulatory approval, market access, and optimized commercial value of the program, while ensuring quality, compliance (internal and external), within budget, and in a competitive and timely manner, utilizing both internal and external resources necessary.
Leverage knowledge, experience, understanding of external stakeholders, internal team capabilities, and portfolio needs to develop a compelling and innovative vision and strategy for the program.
Deploy and prioritize resources across development units.
Ensure rigorous adherence to quality and compliance.
Report technical complaints, adverse events, special case scenarios related to products within established timelines and protocols.
Drive talent acquisition among team members and within their sub-teams, including active selection and de-selection and performance management of the core membership of the program team.
Expected travel: approximately 20% US domestic and/or international travel.
PhD degree in the related discipline with 10+ years of drug development experience, including experience in Global Program Teams and with dossier submission for new or supplemental indications.
Deep drug development experience in neuroscience or related disease area.
Prior exposure to and strong awareness of regulatory/market access/commercialization requirements, particularly for the US.
Clinical background relevant to the programs in the development franchise (medical training or experience in program teams).
Experience in product registration and major health authority interactions.
Longstanding experience leading multidisciplinary teams.
M.D. highly desirable.
Clinical and/or research experience in neurology/neuroscience, preferably neurodegeneration.
Strong external network in the field of neuroscience.
Strong publication record with expertise recognized in the field of neurodegeneration or other compelling credentials relevant to neuroscience drug development.
Experience in using AI/digital in research and/or development.
Why Novartis: Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting, and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together?
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Division Development
Business Unit Innovative Medicines
Location USA
State New Jersey
Site East Hanover
Company / Legal Entity U014 (FCRS = US014) Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
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