About the Role
Major Accountabilities:
- Identify key patient advocacy and/or engagement priorities in alignment with disease area & business leaders, and develop, align and implement relevant Novartis patient engagement positions ensuring that the company establishes strong relationships with patient organizations.
- Develop balanced argumentations, to support patient engagement and patient advocacy priorities.
- Partner with regional patient engagement team and implement related project at country level.
- Responsible for developing the local teams in line with PE training and development strategy
- Responsible for ensuring that all patient insights are inputted into the Patient Insights Navigator
Key Performance Indicators:
- Influence on patient organizations
- Acceptance of advocacy policies by internal/external stakeholders; recognition of their quality.
- Feedback from internal and external stakeholders.
- High-quality delivery of individual contribution within projects.
- High quality delivery of expected results in the regions or for the relevant therapeutic area(s) (as specified in job title).
Competencies / Skills & Knowledge:
- Strategy development
- People management
- New product innovation
- Organization, scope, scale & complexity
- Financial management
- Cross-unit collaboration
- Geographic scope
- Stakeholder engagement
- Digital and tech savvy
- Breakthrough analysis
- Organizational savvy
- Patient Acumen
- Medical/Product/Disease area knowledge
- Patient engagement & advocacy practices, guidance’s and tools
- Develop concise and clear messaging that drives engagement and behaviors
- Issues / risk identification & assessment
- Product and launch excellence
- Managing across functions and boundaries
- Stakeholder management & communication
- Strategic thinking and planning
- Pro-actively creating value with customers, healthcare providers, patients and policy makers.
Role Requirements
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