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Disease Area Lead Immunology
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation · 🌍 Basel (City)
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Salary Range: CHF154,700.00 - CHF287,300.00 Job Description Summary #LI-Hybrid Location: Basel, Switzerland Relocation Supported. At Novartis, our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people's lives. As Disease Area Lead, Immunology, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the commercial success of our Immunology portfolio across Europe. This highly visible regional leadership role sits at the intersection of strategy and execution, ensuring that global priorities are translated into impactful country-level actions. You will partner closely with country commercial teams, Medical, Value & Access, and other cross-functional stakeholders to drive performance, enhance launch excellence, and build capabilities across the region. This is an exciting opportunity to help deliver innovative therapies to patients living with immune-mediated diseases while influencing the future growth of one of Novartis' most strategic therapeutic areas. Job Description #LI-Hybrid Location: Basel, Switzerland Relocation Supported. At Novartis, our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people's lives. As Disease Area Lead, Immunology, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the commercial success of our Immunology portfolio across Europe. This highly visible regional leadership role sits at the intersection of strategy and execution, ensuring that global priorities are translated into impactful country-level actions. You will partner closely with country commercial teams, Medical, Value & Access, and other cross-functional stakeholders to drive performance, enhance launch excellence, and build capabilities across the region. This is an exciting opportunity to help deliver innovative therapies to patients living with immune-mediated diseases while influencing the future growth of one of Novartis' most strategic therapeutic areas. Key Responsibilities • Lead the execution of the Immunology disease area strategy across Europe, ensuring strong alignment between international direction and local implementation. • Drive regional performance through market insight analysis, identification of growth opportunities, and implementation of high-impact actions across priority markets. • Ensure consistent pull-through of brand strategies into country business plans, maximizing focus, execution excellence, and measurable outcomes. • Partner with country teams to optimize portfolio performance while preparing markets for future growth opportunities and innovations. • Lead launch readiness planning and execution, ensuring successful delivery of pre-launch and post-launch milestones. • Drive commercial excellence through data-driven decision making, customer engagement optimization, segmentation, targeting, and omnichannel effectiveness. • Collaborate closely with Medical, Value & Access, Regulatory, and Execution Excellence functions to deliver integrated business outcomes. • Share best practices and build capabilities across markets, fostering a high-performance culture and strengthening Immunology expertise throughout the region. • Influence and align stakeholders across a complex matrix organization while driving accountability for execution and results. • Monitor competitive dynamics and healthcare market trends to inform strategic decisions and strengthen market preparedness. Essential Requirements • Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Business, Marketing, or a related field. • Significant experience in the pharmaceutical industry with a strong commercial background. • Proven leadership experience at country level, such as Therapeutic Area Head, Marketing & Sales Head, Commercial Portfolio Lead, or equivalent commercial leadership role. • Strong track record of developing and executing brand strategies that de