Director, Portfolio Prioritization
Novartis
August 24, 2026
Remote
United States
Corporate Functions
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead portfolio reporting across Reimagining Work initiatives, providing transparency into priorities, progress, risks, and outcomes.
- Establish reporting standards, data quality requirements, governance processes, and portfolio performance metrics.
- Develop executive-ready insights for strategic decisions, resource allocation, and portfolio prioritization.
- Own the AI use case intake process, evaluating requests consistently and aligned to business priorities.
- Partner with stakeholders to refine submissions, clarify requirements, and identify opportunities for solution reuse.
- Facilitate cross-functional reviews with business, technology, data, and AI stakeholders.
- Assess opportunities based on strategic alignment, value realization, feasibility, readiness, adoption, and risk.
- Prepare governance recommendations and decision packages supported by data, analysis, and business impact.
- Ensure approved initiatives have clear ownership, roadmap alignment, governance oversight, and execution accountability.
- Drive continuous improvement of portfolio governance, intake processes, stakeholder engagement, and decision effectiveness.
Essential Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field (advanced degree preferred).
- 10+ years of experience in strategic planning, transformation governance, program management, business operations, management consulting, digital/AI portfolio management, or related.
- Demonstrated experience managing complex portfolios end-to-end (intake, prioritization, capacity, dependencies, risk, readiness, governance, performance reporting, handoff to delivery).
- Strong analytical ability to synthesize strategic, operational, financial, and resource information into decision-ready insights.
- Experience leading structured intake and cross-functional reviews (value, alignment, feasibility, readiness, duplication, dependencies, risk, resources).
- Strong executive communication, structured problem solving, stakeholder orchestration, governance facilitation, and influence without authority.
- Lead portfolio reporting across Reimagining Work initiatives, providing transparency into priorities, progress, risks, and outcomes.
- Establish reporting standards, data quality requirements, governance processes, and portfolio performance metrics.
- Develop executive-ready insights for strategic decisions, resource allocation, and portfolio prioritization.
- Own the AI use case intake process, evaluating requests consistently and aligned to business priorities.
- Partner with stakeholders to refine submissions, clarify requirements, and identify opportunities for solution reuse.
- Facilitate cross-functional reviews with business, technology, data, and AI stakeholders.
- Assess opportunities based on strategic alignment, value realization, feasibility, readiness, adoption, and risk.
- Prepare governance recommendations and decision packages supported by data, analysis, and business impact.
- Ensure approved initiatives have clear ownership, roadmap alignment, governance oversight, and execution accountability.
- Drive continuous improvement of portfolio governance, intake processes, stakeholder engagement, and decision effectiveness.
Essential Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field (advanced degree preferred).
- 10+ years of experience in strategic planning, transformation governance, program management, business operations, management consulting, digital/AI portfolio management, or related.
- Demonstrated experience managing complex portfolios end-to-end (intake, prioritization, capacity, dependencies, risk, readiness, governance, performance reporting, handoff to delivery).
- Strong analytical ability to synthesize strategic, operational, financial, and resource information into decision-ready insights.
- Experience leading structured intake and cross-functional reviews (value, alignment, feasibility, readiness, duplication, dependencies, risk, resources).
- Strong executive communication, structured problem solving, stakeholder orchestration, governance facilitation, and influence without authority.