Country Chief Scientific Officer And Medical Bardi

Country Chief Scientific Officer And Medical
Bardi
Emilia Romagna, Bardi

Country Chief Scientific Officer and Medical Affairs Head - Novartis Italy

The Country Chief Scientific Officer and Medical Affairs Head is the lead country medical representative, responsible for designing and executing the near and long-term country medical strategy, forging bold strategic partnership with the healthcare communities and governmental entities and driving the Innovative Medicine portfolio to improve patients outcomes.

**Your key responsibilities**:

Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

- Performance & Launch Preparation- Manage and develop the overall performance of the contry medical affairs team

- Drive best-in-class launch preparedness and launch execution

Healthcare Partnership & Stakeholder Management- Builds bold external partnerships beyond the traditional Healthcare professionals

- Ensures implementation science plans in place early to shape health policy and practice guidelines

- Builds strong x-functional collaboration

- Represent Novartis at key external governmental, scientific, clinical, and medical

Evidence Generation & Clinical Trials- Encourages earlier (starting at DDP) initiation of innovative integrated evidence generation strategies

- Encourages utility of more innovative digital technologies for more data generation and utilization.

- Foresees that all local studies are developed and timely executed based on country evidence gaps

Leadership & Culture- Talent attraction & development (including capability building)

- Self awareness

- X-functional, effective team building

- Role modelling cultural behaviours

- Owns and optimizes medical resources and allocation: Advocates early resourcing where and when appropriate

**Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion**:

- Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve. _

**Minimum requirements

**What you'll bring to the role**:

- Medical Doctor (MD) preferred.

- 10+ years of relevant experience working with high-performing regional and local medical and access teams in healthcare/life sciences industry

- Fluency in English and preferably Italian

- Working knowledge of pharmaceutical market and health-care systems.

Relevant experience acquired at pharmaceutical companies, HTA, physician associations or health care consultancy companies or equivalent experience

- Strong leadership and influencing skills.

Proven ability to network with all levels of external stakeholders and work in matrix environment distilling and prioritizing market needs and deliverables

- Deep understanding of drug development and approval processes, including experience designing and/or executing clinical studies.

Scientific/medical research experience with demonstrated record of scientific/medical publication desirable

- Excellent understanding of local, regional, and country regulatory standards and processes, as well as relevant (country-specific) ethical and legal guidelines.

International/global experience desirable

**Why Novartis?

766 million lives were touched by Novartis medicines in 2021, and while we're proud of this, we know there is so much more we could do to help improve and extend people's lives.

- We believe new insights, perspectives and ground-breaking solutions can be found at the intersection of medical science and digital innovation.

That a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment inspires new ways of working.

- We believe our potential can thrive and grow in an unbossed culture underpinned by integrity, curiosity and flexibility.

And we can reinvent what's possible, when we collaborate with courage to aggressively and ambitiously tackle the world's toughest medical challenges.

Because the greatest risk in life, is the risk of never trying!

- Imagine what you could do here at Novartis!

**Imagine what you could do at Novartis!

**Division

- PHARMA

**Business Unit

- REGION EUROPE PHARMA

**Country

- Italy

**Work Location

- Origgio

**Company/Legal Entity

- Novartis Farma IT

**Functional Area

- Research & Development

**Job Type

- Full Time

**Employment Type

- Regular

**Shift Work

- No

**Early Talent

- No