Associate Director, Field Execution Lead
Novartis
June 27, 2026
Remote
United States
Sales
Key Responsibilities:
- Own end-to-end execution outcomes for assigned Therapeutic Area(s), spanning steady-state operations, launches, and enterprise change initiatives.
- Act as the single point of accountability for field execution performance once initiatives are live, ensuring priorities are delivered with clarity, sequencing, and follow-through.
- Monitor execution health signals; assess field readiness and stability as initiatives transition into sustained operation.
- Interpret execution health and drive decisions and corrective actions based on standardized business review outputs (not responsible for producing or maintaining data, dashboards, or reports).
- Trigger timely escalation and resolution when execution risks, friction, or breakdowns emerge, within defined governance, decision rights, and escalation paths.
- Partner with planning, enablement, and infrastructure teams to ensure execution prerequisites (processes, tools, training, sequencing) are in place prior to field deployment.
- Translate TA priorities into executable field work within a shared enterprise execution system.
- Capture execution insights and lessons learned to reduce variability, rework, and duplication.
- Strengthen execution discipline and operating maturity across the field organization.
Essential Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- 6+ years’ experience in commercial execution, field operations, launch management, or complex enterprise delivery (pharmaceutical/biotech/healthcare or similar).
- Proven ability to own and drive execution outcomes in multi-stakeholder, matrixed environments.
- Experience with structured governance, operating cadences, and decision models.
- Strong judgment and communication skills; ability to turn execution signals into clear actions.
- Comfortable in change-intensive environments with accountability for results.
Desirable Requirements:
- Experience supporting large, geographically dispersed field organizations.
- Familiarity with enterprise operating models, execution governance, or performance management systems.
- Own end-to-end execution outcomes for assigned Therapeutic Area(s), spanning steady-state operations, launches, and enterprise change initiatives.
- Act as the single point of accountability for field execution performance once initiatives are live, ensuring priorities are delivered with clarity, sequencing, and follow-through.
- Monitor execution health signals; assess field readiness and stability as initiatives transition into sustained operation.
- Interpret execution health and drive decisions and corrective actions based on standardized business review outputs (not responsible for producing or maintaining data, dashboards, or reports).
- Trigger timely escalation and resolution when execution risks, friction, or breakdowns emerge, within defined governance, decision rights, and escalation paths.
- Partner with planning, enablement, and infrastructure teams to ensure execution prerequisites (processes, tools, training, sequencing) are in place prior to field deployment.
- Translate TA priorities into executable field work within a shared enterprise execution system.
- Capture execution insights and lessons learned to reduce variability, rework, and duplication.
- Strengthen execution discipline and operating maturity across the field organization.
Essential Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- 6+ years’ experience in commercial execution, field operations, launch management, or complex enterprise delivery (pharmaceutical/biotech/healthcare or similar).
- Proven ability to own and drive execution outcomes in multi-stakeholder, matrixed environments.
- Experience with structured governance, operating cadences, and decision models.
- Strong judgment and communication skills; ability to turn execution signals into clear actions.
- Comfortable in change-intensive environments with accountability for results.
Desirable Requirements:
- Experience supporting large, geographically dispersed field organizations.
- Familiarity with enterprise operating models, execution governance, or performance management systems.