Associate director, Group Head Drug Product Project Leaders

Your key responsibilities:

In this role, you will:

• Lead the drug product development team, ensuring the proper development of the projects assigned to it.
• Actively contribute to the Site strategy: Basel as an incubator.
• Provide strategic direction, coaching and mentoring to your group members, ensuring their professional development and performance.
• Ensure the delivery of high-quality drug products that meet the target product profiles, timelines, budgets (internal and external costs) and regulatory requirements.
• Engage with internal and external partners, such as drug substance, analytical, TPPM, clinical, regulatory, quality, manufacturing, CROs and CMOs, to ensure alignment and integration of drug product development activities.
• Foster a culture of empowerment, innovation, diversity and inclusion, trust, high performance, data and digital within your group and across the department.
• Support the environmental sustainability initiatives on site and contribute to the reduction of carbon footprint and waste generation.
• Role model and enable the Novartis culture aspiration of unbossed, curious and inspired at all levels.

What you’ll bring to the role:

• PhD preferred in pharmaceutical sciences, chemistry, biochemistry, Process engineering or related fields with at least 10 years of experience in relevant industry
• Excellent knowledge of Pharma Drug development Process
• Experience in project management of Drug Development.
• Excellent communications skills, command of spoken and written English language
• Collaborative mindset
• Inspiring, engaging leader
• Enterprise thinking
• Excellent leadership skills.
• Team spirit

Why Novartis? Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us! Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

You’ll receive: You can find everything you need to know about our benefits and rewards in the Novartis Life Handbook. https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards

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

Accessibility and accommodation
Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to all individuals. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to receive more detailed information about the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to inclusion.switzerland@novartis.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.

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