[Hiring] Executive Director, Innovative Data Offerings and Products @Novartis

Role Description

The Innovative Data Offerings and Products Lead is an Executive Director role responsible for setting the vision, roadmap, prioritization, and adoption strategy for innovative data products and offerings portfolio. The role oversees both the Innovative Data Products team and the Innovative Data Offerings team, ensuring investments align to business strategy, strengthen reusability, reduce duplication, and deliver measurable outcomes across customer, patient, commercial, and foundational data domains.

Reporting to the Head of Data Partnerships, Innovation and Products, this leader establishes product management standards, governance, funding priorities, and the operating model for data products and innovative offerings. The role partners closely with business, analytics, technology, DEO, data teams, external data vendors, and technology vendors to maximize value from data assets, strengthen stakeholder engagement, and ensure the portfolio delivers meaningful business impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Set the vision, roadmap, prioritization, and adoption strategy for the enterprise data product portfolio, ensuring investments align to business strategy and measurable outcomes.
• Oversee the Innovative Data Products team and Innovative Data Offerings team, creating focus, clarity, and alignment across portfolio priorities, product delivery, innovation opportunities, and stakeholder needs.
• Establish product management standards, governance, funding priorities, and operating model across customer, patient, commercial, and foundational data domains.
• Partner with business, analytics, technology, DEO, external data vendors, and technology vendors to drive reusability, reduce duplication, strengthen data asset value, and enable consistent product practices across the enterprise.
• Own product portfolio performance, stakeholder engagement, adoption, and realization of business value across priority data products and innovative offerings.
• Work with DEO, external data vendors, and technology vendors to evaluate innovative capabilities, inform build-versus-buy decisions, and ensure vendor-enabled solutions align with portfolio priorities, governance expectations, and business value goals.
• Define portfolio-level success measures, investment tradeoffs, dependency management, and decision forums to ensure resources are focused on the highest-value opportunities.
• Represent the enterprise data product portfolio with senior stakeholders, communicating priorities, progress, risks, value realization, and decisions required to accelerate impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Information Management, Computer Science, Business Administration, or related field.
• Minimum 12+ years of experience in data products, data strategy, analytics, technology, digital transformation, product management, or related enterprise leadership roles.
• Proven experience leading enterprise data product portfolios, setting roadmaps, prioritizing investments, and translating strategy into measurable outcomes.
• Strong understanding of product management standards, governance, funding models, operating models, adoption, and value realization for enterprise data products.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence senior stakeholders across business, analytics, technology, DEO, data organizations, external data vendors, and technology vendors.
• Experience in regulated industries, including pharma, healthcare, data, analytics, or technology-enabled environments, is strongly preferred.

Requirements

• Strong product management, operating model, governance, funding prioritization, stakeholder engagement, vendor partnership, and cross-functional leadership experience across customer, patient, commercial, and foundational data domains.
• Ability to translate business strategy into a clear data product portfolio roadmap.
• Capability to make investment tradeoffs and work effectively with DEO, external data vendors, and technology vendors.
• Drive adoption and ensure data products and innovative offerings deliver meaningful outcomes for the enterprise.

Benefits

• The salary for this position is expected to range between $236,600.00 and $439,400.00 per year.
• Performance-based cash incentive and eligibility for annual equity awards, depending on the level of the role.
• Comprehensive benefits package including health, life and disability benefits, a 401(k) with company contribution and match, and a variety of other benefits.
• 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

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 to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to [email protected] or 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.

Salary Range

$236,600.00 - $439,400.00

Skills Desired

• Brand Awareness
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Customer Engagement
• Customer Insights
• Data Analytics
• Digital Marketing
• Franchise Development
• Influencing Skills
• Inspirational Leadership
• People Management
• Product Positioning
• Product Roadmap
• Sales
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Stakeholder Management