ED, Portfolio Prioritization & Value Realization Lead
Novartis
August 24, 2026
Remote
United States
Corporate Functions
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the integrated transformation portfolio across priorities, capacity, value, dependencies, risk, and readiness.
- Drive portfolio prioritization decisions to maximize business impact and strategic value realization.
- Recommend sequencing and investment trade-offs to optimize transformation outcomes and resource allocation.
- Establish and govern enterprise-wide value realization frameworks, metrics, and benefit tracking.
- Partner with Finance to validate business cases, benefit assumptions, baselines, and performance measures.
- Deliver actionable portfolio insights and scenario analyses for executive decision-making.
- Identify risks, value leakage, capacity constraints, and execution challenges; drive corrective actions.
- Oversee AI use case intake, triage, governance, and cross-functional review.
- Foster alignment across Strategy, Finance, Technology, and business leaders.
- Build and lead a high-performing team.
Essential Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, economics, analytics, life sciences, healthcare, engineering, technology, or related field; MBA/MS preferred.
- 12+ years’ experience in portfolio management, enterprise PMO, transformation office, strategy execution, finance, consulting, business operations, or value-realization leadership.
- Experience in pharma/biotech/healthcare/technology/consulting with high-volume intake, AI/digital case review, transformation funding, and benefits realization.
- Proven ability to build portfolio governance, intake/prioritization logic, decision forums, value taxonomies, scorecards, and executive reporting.
- Experience challenging business cases, baselines/assumptions, benefit ownership, double-counting risk, capacity constraints, and readiness gaps.
- Strong financial and analytical skills, including scenario analysis.
- Portfolio prioritization; value-realization design; business-case challenge; KPI and benefits tracking; governance and executive reporting; scenario modeling; stakeholder influence; risk/dependency management.
Desirable Requirements:
- Experience partnering with Finance, Strategy, Commercial, Technology, P&O, Legal, ERC, and business leaders on prioritization and governance.
- Experience with transformation analytics; Power BI/Tableau; portfolio management tools; AI-use-case triage; product/Agile portfolio models.
- Lead the integrated transformation portfolio across priorities, capacity, value, dependencies, risk, and readiness.
- Drive portfolio prioritization decisions to maximize business impact and strategic value realization.
- Recommend sequencing and investment trade-offs to optimize transformation outcomes and resource allocation.
- Establish and govern enterprise-wide value realization frameworks, metrics, and benefit tracking.
- Partner with Finance to validate business cases, benefit assumptions, baselines, and performance measures.
- Deliver actionable portfolio insights and scenario analyses for executive decision-making.
- Identify risks, value leakage, capacity constraints, and execution challenges; drive corrective actions.
- Oversee AI use case intake, triage, governance, and cross-functional review.
- Foster alignment across Strategy, Finance, Technology, and business leaders.
- Build and lead a high-performing team.
Essential Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, economics, analytics, life sciences, healthcare, engineering, technology, or related field; MBA/MS preferred.
- 12+ years’ experience in portfolio management, enterprise PMO, transformation office, strategy execution, finance, consulting, business operations, or value-realization leadership.
- Experience in pharma/biotech/healthcare/technology/consulting with high-volume intake, AI/digital case review, transformation funding, and benefits realization.
- Proven ability to build portfolio governance, intake/prioritization logic, decision forums, value taxonomies, scorecards, and executive reporting.
- Experience challenging business cases, baselines/assumptions, benefit ownership, double-counting risk, capacity constraints, and readiness gaps.
- Strong financial and analytical skills, including scenario analysis.
- Portfolio prioritization; value-realization design; business-case challenge; KPI and benefits tracking; governance and executive reporting; scenario modeling; stakeholder influence; risk/dependency management.
Desirable Requirements:
- Experience partnering with Finance, Strategy, Commercial, Technology, P&O, Legal, ERC, and business leaders on prioritization and governance.
- Experience with transformation analytics; Power BI/Tableau; portfolio management tools; AI-use-case triage; product/Agile portfolio models.