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Radioligand Therapies (RLT) Director, Ecosystem Lead – Northern CA
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation · 🇺🇸 4 Locations
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Posting rules out sponsorship
The posting rules out sponsorship or requires citizenship/clearance.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 75 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 31 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting says it won’t sponsorIts own wording says sponsorship is unavailable.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation paid sponsored hires in similar roles23 certified filings for “Director, Forecasting-CV” (Data Scientists) in NJ: $170k–$170k, median $170k. Most were filed at wage level IV (83%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 75 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 31 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Job Description Summary #LI-Remote This is a field-based and remote opportunity supporting key accounts in an assigned geography. Novartis is unable to offer relocation support for this role. Please only apply if this location is accessible to you. Company will not sponsor visas for this position. The Radioligand Therapies (RLT) Director, Ecosystem Lead will be responsible for leading an enterprise mindset across the Radioligand Therapies (RLT) regional ecosystem to meet and exceed organizational objectives. This role involves developing, orchestrating, and executing the RLT priority ecosystem customer engagement strategy by deeply understanding the needs of key priority ecosystem partners and the local healthcare ecosystem to create frictionless experience for accounts and best support patient access and education. Additionally, the Radioligand Therapies (RLT) Director, Ecosystem Lead will develop and lead the collaboration of the Integrated Field Strategy Team (IFST) (e.g., Sales, Medical, Market Access, and Novartis Patient Support functions) in a non-reporting relationship. Building and maintaining key business relationships with C and D suite personnel, in partnership with other appropriate functions, is also essential. Job Description Key Responsibilities: • Understand the needs of the target ecosystem archetype customers at all levels, from departments to C-Suite, and utilize insights to anticipate, leverage, and navigate trends impacting the business, articulating business insights and driving priorities to deliver outcomes. • Develop and drive strategic plans, leading the region’s Integrated Field Strategy Team (IFST) to advance Novartis' objectives and address account needs, collaborating with IFST members on pre-launch/launch strategy and execution across HQ, account, and regional executive teams. • Build strategic customer relationships to advance engagement between Novartis and ecosystem partners, identifying, prioritizing, and championing change opportunities to better serve partners. • Identify opportunities for collaboration and engagement with ecosystem C-Suite, D-Suite, and other non-HCP decision-makers, serving as the RLT oncology primary contact and partnering with other account leads for executive and HQ exchanges. • Create and build opportunities for internal cross-functional collaboration, driving partners across functions to eliminate barriers and create solutions, leading communication, problem-solving, decision-making, and effective enterprise mindset collaboration. • Provide alternatives and solutions where challenges and ambiguity exist. • Own account performance across the RLT platform, identifying and leading opportunities to impact demand-generating functions and achieving ecosystem performance, influencing cross-functional teams including sales, access, and other partners. • Establish, enable, and lead effective communications between Novartis and ecosystems, internal account teams, customer engagement leadership, and other Novartis functions, anticipating and communicating strategic shifts that align with organizational goals and encouraging teams to adapt and lead with confidence. • Manage multiple highly critical and complex ecosystem archetype targets. Essential Requirements: • Bachelor’s degree required from 4-year college or university. • 10+ years’ experience in pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare, or similarly structured industries with large, geographically dispersed teams. We also welcome candidates from other complex environments such as medical devices, diagnostics, life sciences services, insurance, consumer health, or B2B sectors, especially where strong field leadership and customer engagement are central to success. • 5+ years’ experience in account management c