Director, Execution Excellence

Job Description Summary

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead endtoend planning and execution across multiple transformation workstreams, ensuring strong alignment to enterprise priorities and delivery of measurable outcomes.
• Partner across commercial, medical, digital, and operational teams to integrate efforts, break down silos, and accelerate enterprisewide impact.
• Embed futureready principles into field operations and execution frameworks to support adaptability, resilience, and sustained value creation.
• Design and implement scalable planning and delivery models that enable consistent execution, smart resource use, and strategic agility.
• Establish and track execution metrics that drive transparency, accountability, and continuous performance improvement.
• Translate insights into action, continuously raising the bar for delivery quality and operational excellence.
• Serve as a trusted thought partner to senior leaders, offering clear guidance on execution progress, risks, and enterprise readiness.
• Facilitate crossfunctional alignment to ensure teams remain focused on shared goals, outcomes, and priorities.
• Build and lead a highperforming Execution Excellence team by fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Champion talent development by empowering team members to lead with purpose and agility while establishing best practices that enable longterm success.

Essential Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree required from 4-year college or university.
• 10+ years' experience in program management, enterprise transformation, or strategic operations within pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare, or similarly structured industries with large, geographically dispersed teams. We also welcome candidates from other complex environments such as medical devices, diagnostics, life sciences services, insurance, consumer health, or B2B sectors.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex portfolios and guide highperforming teams within a matrixed, global environment.
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder partnership skills, with the ability to bring clarity across diverse audiences.
• Experience navigating transformation program management, governance models, and enterpriselevel delivery frameworks.
• Comfort working across both strategic and operational domains, collaborating seamlessly to move initiatives from vision to execution.
• Familiarity with agile ways of working, enterprise PMO tools, and transformation methodologies to support scalable and effective delivery.

Desirable Requirements:

• Brings a strategic mindset grounded in operational rigor, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and create clarity.
• Passionate about enabling enterprise transformation and advancing futureready engagement models that drive meaningful impact.

Novartis Compensation Summary:

The salary for this position is expected to range between $185,500.00 and $344,500.00 per year.

The final salary offered is determined based on factors like, but not limited to, relevant skills and experience, and upon joining Novartis will be reviewed periodically. Novartis may change the published salary range based on company and market factors.

Your compensation will include a performance-based cash incentive and, depending on the level of the role, eligibility to be considered for annual equity awards.

US-based eligible employees will receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes health, life and disability benefits, a 401(k) with company contribution and match, and a variety of other benefits. In addition, employees are eligible for a generous time off package including vacation, personal days, holidays and other leaves.

EEO Statement:

The Novartis Group of Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Accessibility and reasonable accommodations

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