Associate Director, Field Launch & Change Surge

🕒 June 26

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $145.6k - $270.4k / 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

• Provide surge execution support for launches, major tool/process releases, and high-impact organizational changes • Translate launch/change plans into practical field actions, including readiness tasks, cutover steps, and stabilization activities • Identify cross-team dependencies and readiness risks and drive mitigation actions • Support cutover planning and go-live readiness with checklists, timing clarity, and escalation pathways • Coordinate hypercare mechanics for rapid triage, ownership, and resolution of field-impacting issues • Drive rapid stabilization by tracking issues through closure and addressing recurring problems with root-cause fixes • Partner across teams to align timelines, readiness expectations, and support models • Maintain an integrated view of launch/change readiness signals and surface actionable watch-outs to execution leadership • Capture lessons learned and improve readiness playbooks, templates, and standard operating patterns • Support major launches and high-priority change events across the field organization

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required from 4-year college or university • 6+ years of experience in field operations, launch execution, program delivery, or execution-focused roles within complex, matrixed organizations • Ability to operate effectively in high-intensity environments with competing priorities and tight timelines • Strong execution discipline and coordination skills • Ability to translate plans into clear actions and closures • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills • Ability to drive alignment without direct authority • Familiarity with readiness frameworks, cutover/hypercare practices, and structured issue management • Comfort operating as surge capacity across multiple portfolios and workstreams • Must be able to work remotely anywhere in the U.S., subject to possible legal-entity restrictions • Must be able to travel 10% • Company will not sponsor visas for this position

🏖️ Benefits

• Performance-based cash incentive • Eligibility to be considered for annual equity awards, depending on role level • Health benefits • Life benefits • Disability benefits • 401(k) with company contribution and match • Vacation • Personal days • Holidays • Other leaves • Remote work arrangement • Travel opportunities, with 10% travel required