RA Digital Innovation Platform Lead

Major Accountabilities:

• Foster a culture of innovation within regulatory affairs by actively proposing and
• entertaining disruptive ideas and technologies challenging the status quo and historical ways of working, leveraging a creative design thinking approach and experiences from other industries.
• Develops compelling, value-driven business proposals for project funding.
• Identify relevant existing Capability or evaluates disruptive technologies for the
• business through delivery of minimum viable products (MVPs) and proof of concepts (PoCs).
• Pro-actively evaluates opportunities for digital innovation and automation delivery across varying areas of technological disciplines with the objective of meeting business needs.
• Leads the implementation and scale-up of digital innovation and automation in collaboration with relevant Capability Leads and IT innovation partners.
• Builds and maintains collaborative and productive partnerships across the Platform team and enterprise stakeholders to achieve business priorities.
• Anticipates and actively manages changes by updating on ongoing activities and current initiatives. Identifies risks and enables its’ resolution. Escalates issues when necessary to facilitate resolution at the appropriate level.
• Enable early adoption of emerging technologies and associated organizational change management.

Minimum Requirements:

• Experience in technology or regulatory affairs with proven track record of deploying automation and innovation solutions, ideally within the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry.
• In-depth understanding of drug development, regulatory requirements processes and technology and data-driven needs within Regulatory Affairs.
• Strong strategic problem-solving skills and innovative mind-set.
• Strong project/program management skills including change management experience.
• Passionate about cutting edge digital innovation and enjoys working in uncertain environment and uncharted territory.
• Demonstrated leadership in driving clear strategic thinking, prioritization, maintaining awareness of business impact.
• Strong negotiation skills.
• Requirements gathering and accurately connecting the dots even when there’s ambiguity.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion/EEO

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