Principal Scientist I
About the Role
Major accountabilities:
- Recognizes and leverages innovation opportunities for own team across projects and/or with focus on own area of deep expertise; plans and executes approaches to enable/operationalize strategic focus areas.
- Generally leads or co‐leads drug discovery, technology, or early development projects or owns broad processes/technologies across multiple projects.
- Influences and inspires own team and/or brings matrix collaborators together across the organization with eye for progressing teams towards decision points and deepening scientific understanding.
- Actively mentors, trains, and supports career development for own directs and/or matrix direct reports and junior collaborators, especially in own area of deep expertise.
- Develops and recommends objectives for lab unit, together with broader team.
- Gives and accepts constructive feedback, especially to support performance and development of direct reports; speaks up and challenges the norm and guides team to share their work and ideas and/or influences a constructive culture within functional community.
- Empowered to carry out novel research and/or technical activities within team, and/or matrix community surrounding field of expertise, which may involve devising new techniques to advance drug discovery, technology or early development projects.
- May lead or co lead projects; influences and achieves results through own scientific and technical strengths and enables innovative contributions of direct reports and/or matrix team within key projects/initiatives/technology areas.
- Distribution of marketing samples (where applicable)
Key performance indicators:
- Discoveries -Developments -Experimental methods -Adherence to Novartis policy and guidelines -Project & stakeholder feedback
Minimum Requirements:
Work Experience:
- People Leadership.
- Project Management.
- Collaborating across boundaries.
Skills:
- Chemistry.
- Clinical Pharmacology.
- Clinical Research.
- Drug Discovery.
- Initiative.
- Medical Research.
- Patient Care.
- Physiology.
- Quality Control.
- R&D (Research And Development).
- Simulation Software.
- Translational Medicine.
Languages :
- English.
Role Requirements
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