Associate Director – Field Execution Lead

🕒 May 12

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $152.6k - $283.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Director

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Novartis

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1996

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

🏭 Manufacturing

Healthcare • Consulting • Manufacturing

Novartis is an innovative medicines company dedicated to reimagining medicine to improve and extend people’s lives. With a presence in over 250 million patients worldwide, Novartis focuses on harnessing scientific breakthroughs to develop transformative, high-value treatments in areas such as cardiovascular, renal and metabolic diseases, immunology, neuroscience, and oncology. The company is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and aims to create a positive impact through societal contributions and environmental sustainability efforts. Furthermore, Novartis engages in research collaborations and embraces modern technology platforms to advance their research and development capabilities, making them a leader in the global healthcare industry.

📋 Description

• Own end-to-end execution for assigned Therapeutic Areas across steady-state operations, launches, and enterprise change initiatives • Serve as the single point of accountability for field execution after initiatives go live • Ensure priorities are delivered with clarity, sequencing, and follow-through • Monitor execution health and assess field readiness from deployment through sustained operation • Translate execution health signals into decisions and corrective actions using standardized business reviews • Identify risks, friction, and breakdowns and navigate escalation and resolution through established governance pathways • Partner with planning, enablement, and infrastructure teams to prepare processes, tools, training, and sequencing for field deployment • Act as the primary execution partner to Therapeutic Area leadership • Translate strategy into executable, field-ready work within a shared enterprise operating model • Capture execution insights and lessons learned to strengthen FOPE standards and reduce variability • Champion disciplined execution and contribute to the maturity and effectiveness of the field organization • Travel 30% domestically and/or internationally as defined by the hiring manager

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required from 4-year college or university • 6+ years’ experience in commercial execution, field operations, launch management, or complex enterprise delivery roles • Experience in pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare, or similarly structured industries with large, geographically dispersed teams, or other complex environments such as medical devices, diagnostics, life sciences services, insurance, consumer health, technology, or B2B sectors • Ability to lead and deliver execution outcomes in complex, multi-stakeholder, matrixed environments • Experience working within structured governance, operating rhythms, and clear decision frameworks • Strong judgment and communication skills • Ability to turn execution insights into clear actions and informed decisions • Confidence operating in visible, change-intensive settings with shared accountability for outcomes • Understanding of enterprise operating models and execution governance • Ability to navigate ambiguity, bring clarity to complexity, and drive outcomes without heroic or ad-hoc coordination • Must be able to work remotely anywhere in the U.S., subject to legal-entity restrictions • Willingness to travel 30% • Company will not sponsor visas for this position

🏖️ Benefits

• Performance-based cash incentive • Potential eligibility for annual equity awards • Health benefits • Life benefits • Disability benefits • 401(k) with company contribution and match • Vacation • Personal days • Holidays • Other leaves