Director, Patient Centered Outcomes
Publication date:
15 April 2025Workload:
100%- Place of work:Basel (City)
Job summary
Join Novartis as a leader in Patient-Centered Outcomes (PCOs). This role offers a collaborative work environment and industry-leading opportunities.
Tasks
- Lead clinical outcome assessment activities across Development Units.
- Drive alignment among Global Program Teams for effective PCO strategies.
- Enhance PCO capability building within clinical development teams.
Skills
- Masters, PhD, or MD with 5+ years in pharma or consultancy.
- Strong knowledge of drug development processes.
- Excellent cross-functional leadership abilities.
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Summary
This opportunity enhances and drives alignment of activities among DUs and Global Program Teams to elevate PCO activities to a level of industry leadership, maintaining overall accountability for Company’s deliverables in the area. The successful applicant will interacts with Global Program Heads, Global Program Clinical Heads, Clinical Development Medical Directors, HEOR Directors, and Global Program Regulatory, Patient Engagement, and Digital Endpoints directors to influence program strategies
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This role will be based in Basel, Switzerland, Dublin, Ireland or London, UK in a hybrid working approach.
About the Role
Major accountabilities but not limited to:
- Accountable for the functional excellence in clinical outcome assessment development and implementation across the organization
- Accountable for PCO planning content in development programs and ensuring quality inputs for regulatory and market access purposes
- Drives capability building for the Clinical Development encompassing all major aspects in developing PCOs, leveraging cross-functional exchange of expertise
- Participates in and leads projects on behalf of the PCO Alignment Forum
- Leverages knowledge, experience and understanding of external stakeholders and internal goals and capabilities to develop a compelling and innovative vision for PCO for individual programs/brands
- Ensures cross functional and cross divisional alignment
- Drives and/or anticipates internal and external changes reflecting relevant regulatory requirements to maintain constant, state-of-the-art output in the area.
- Maximizes efficiency by identifying existing resources and COA instruments to meet program timelines
- Collaborates with Global Program Teams to secure individual program internal buy in.
- Support Biomedical Research in developing an overall strategy for early-stage implementation of PCOs
- Supports individual program teams in their interaction with HAs and Payers concerning PCOs
- Represents Novartis at Industry Associations and public initiative where PCOs is a topic (e.g., IHI, NIH partnership projects)
Experience:
- Masters, PhD, or MD in relevant field
- At least 5 years relevant experience in Pharma or consultancy
- Good knowledge of the drug development process spanning from research to commercialization with emphasis on projects requiring PROs or COAs in their development
- Ability to lead in a cross functional environment
- Fluent English language skills
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