Serve as a close advisor and thought partner to the US President on business priorities, organizational effectiveness, leadership team dynamics, and enterprise decision-making
Translate the US President's priorities into actionable agendas, decision points, follow-up actions, ensuring time, attention, and engagement are focused on the highest-value priorities
Help US President preparing for key internal and external engagements, including US LT, Town Halls and other US governance forums, ECN, Board, Investor Relation events, engagements with HCPs, healthcare/non-healthcare organizations etc.
Coordinate briefing materials, pre-reads, talking points, meeting objectives, and executive follow-ups in partnership with relevant teams
Own ECN and Board content creation, in partnership with relevant teams
Anticipate issues, identify risks or misalignments, and help surface decisions requiring President or US LT attention
The COS will have regular connections with the US President and act as a trusted sounding board on sensitive topics requiring judgment, discretion, and organizational awareness US Leadership Team Orchestration
Establish and manage the US LT operating rhythm, including leadership meetings, business reviews, strategic offsites, governance forums, decision-making cadences, and follow-up mechanisms
Manage and continuously improve the effectiveness of the US LT operating model
Shape US LT meeting agendas in partnership with the President and relevant functional leaders, ensuring the right balance of strategy, performance, people, risk, transformation, and enterprise topics
Drive clarity on decisions, owners, timelines, and follow-up actions from US LT discussions
Support leadership team effectiveness by identifying areas of duplication, misalignment, or unclear accountability
Ensure leadership discussions are connected across commercial priorities, medical/scientific priorities, market access, policy, operations, talent, culture, AI/technology, compliance, and transformation
Strategy development and deployment
Serve as a key interface between the Office of the President and the Strategy, Platforms & Transformation team
Partner closely with Chief Strategy, Platforms & Transformation Officer to ensure US strategic priorities, transformation initiatives, and business planning processes are well connected to the President's agenda and USLT operating rhythm
CoS will share updates/feedback from US President/ECN/BoD with CSPT only when related to the topics led by SPT. Additionally, will share information/context based on discussions with CEO CoS and Strategic Assistants from other Novartis units.
Help translate strategic choices and transformation priorities into leadership decisions, governance forums, execution plans, and communication narratives
Ensure transformation work is integrated into the broader business cadence rather than operating as a parallel process
Partner with Strategy, Platforms & Transformation to develop executive-level materials, synthesize insights, frame decisions, and support leadership alignment
Together, the CoS and CSPT will have regular connections with US President to discuss all topics related to US Business Strategy development
CoS and CSPT will partner to organize and lead US LT Strategy offsites
CoS will work on US Business Strategy development in partnership with CSPT, leading content creation and executive materials development (ECN/BoD). Lead and engage teams across (and connected to) US Commercial
Partner with enterprise counterparts across Novartis to gather key inputs and to share US strategic priorities to create an increasingly networked organization that translates strategic intent into efficient and effective oper
Benefits
Health insurance
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Job Description Summary
Location: East Hanover, NJ; 10-20% travel is required
- Serves as a strategic partner and operational extension of the US President, helping translate enterprise and US priorities into clear operating rhythms, leadership team alignment, decision-making forums, and execution mechanisms
- Work with US President and Chief Strategy, Platforms & Transformation Officer on the development of the US Commercial business strategy over a 3-to 5-year horizon
- Run the Office of the President, coordinate the US LT agenda, ensure follow-through on critical priorities, and act as a connective tissue across all US teams
- Lead the Community of Practice for Strategic Assistants to the USLT, to ensure strategic alignment and sharing of best practices
- Partner with Functional Leads to operationalize and convert US Commercial strategy into functional objectives
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Novartis · East Hanover