10 major new medicines planned for launch over the next few years creating new career opportunities for those who want to make a direct impact on patients at scale.

The Associate Director, PE Disease Area supports the implementation and execution of the PE Strategy and the 5 Decision points for specific disease areas. The
role partners with PE TA Director and Dir and AD PE Global to achieve strategic US PE objectives and priorities and contribute to Global PE strategies.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Support the execution of patient engagement priorities in alignment with the TA strategy, PE Global and develop, and implement relevant activities
• Support the establishment of relationships with leading US patient organizations
• Support implementation of regulatory and policy/access patient engagement strategies in disease areas.
• Lead, collaborate, and co-create with patient groups integrated campaigns/initiatives to shape and execute unbranded programs around patient needs
• Collaborate on appropriate patient engagement activities across all functions marketing, medical, market access, HEOR, early development, digital/innovation, patient services
• Collaborate with US patient community to input into global TA development and commercial strategies
• Ensure compliant execution of funding and engagement activities
• Ensure all aspects of the project management run effectively and efficiently, identify and resolve upcoming issues, improve processes and channel information, ensure quality deliverable

The Novartis Group of Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers and take pride in maintaining a diverse environment. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. We are committed to building diverse teams, representative of the patients and communities we serve, and we strive to create an inclusive workplace that cultivates bold innovation through collaboration and empowers our people to unleash their full potential.

What you will bring to this role:

• 3+ years of experience in Multinationals and at least 3 years in Patient Engagement combined with a good knowledge of marketing, medical and market access and strong US Healthcare systems and market knowledge

Why Novartis?

766 million lives were touched by Novartis medicines in 2021, and while we’re proud of this, we know there is so much more we could do to help improve and extend people’s lives.
We believe new insights, perspectives and ground-breaking solutions can be found at the intersection of medical science and digital innovation. That a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment inspires new ways of working.

We believe our potential can thrive and grow in an unbossed culture underpinned by integrity, curiosity and flexibility. And we can reinvent what's possible, when we collaborate with courage to aggressively and ambitiously tackle the world’s toughest medical challenges. Because the greatest risk in life, is the risk of never trying!

Imagine what you could do here at Novartis!

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

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

Accessibility and Reasonable Accommodations: The Novartis Group of Companies are 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 application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to tas.nacomms@novartis.com call +1 (877)395-2339 and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.

While Novartis does not require vaccination at this time, for certain Novartis sites in the US all associates and candidates may be required to either upload an image of their COVID-19 vaccine card demonstrating proof of full vaccination for COVID-19 (or other similar evidence of vaccination) or proof of a negative COVID-19 test taken by the associate or candidate within the past seven days to enter any of our sites and/or customer office or healthcare facility, as well as prior to participating in other work related off-site meetings. Employees working in customer-facing roles must adhere to and comply with customers’ (such as hospitals, physician offices, etc.) credentialing guidelines, which may require vaccination. As required by applicable law, Novartis will consider requests for reasonable accommodation for those unable to be vaccinated. This requirement is subject to applicable state and local laws and may not be applicable to employees working in certain jurisdictions. Please send accommodation requests to Eh.occupationalhealth@novartis.com.

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Comms & Engagement

Communications & Engagement

USA

East Hanover, NJ

Novartis Corporation

Communications & Public Affairs

Full Time

Regular

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