Executive Director, Incentive Compensation
Novartis
2 months ago
Remote
United States
Human Resources
Key Responsibilities:
- Serve as the enterprise architect for incentive compensation, shaping a future-ready strategy that aligns performance measurement and rewards with evolving commercial and customer engagement priorities.
- Partner with Sales Leadership, Therapeutic Area leaders, Finance, P&O, Legal, Compliance, and Technology to ensure incentive compensation is fair, compliant, scalable, and aligned to enterprise goals.
- Position incentive compensation as a strategic lever that drives the right behaviors and outcomes.
- Lead the design and continuous evolution of incentive frameworks, ensuring alignment with field roles, portfolio needs, and go-to-market models.
- Own enterprise governance, including decision rights, documentation standards, change management, and escalation pathways.
- Provide executive oversight of end-to-end incentive compensation delivery, ensuring accurate, timely, trusted reporting and payouts.
- Champion operational excellence with Sales Operations, Analytics, Finance, Data Enablement, and Technology to maintain an audit-ready environment.
- Drive modernization of incentive compensation tools, platforms, and processes to increase transparency and reduce manual effort.
- Lead, develop, and inspire a high-performing incentive compensation organization.
Essential Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree (4-year).
- 10+ years’ analytics experience in pharma/biotech/healthcare (or similar) with large, geographically dispersed sales teams; including 6+ years in an Incentive Compensation role with strong achievements.
- Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-scale incentive compensation strategy, design, and execution in highly matrixed organizations.
- Strong track record partnering with senior commercial and finance leaders to deliver business outcomes.
- Proven success leading teams through transformation, modernization, and operating model evolution.
- Ability to attract, develop, and retain diverse talent.
- Strategic and analytical thinker with strong cross-functional leadership; experience managing complex initiatives and budgets.
- Executive presence and systems thinking; comfort navigating ambiguity.
Desirable Requirements:
- Expertise in incentive compensation governance, compliance, operational risk, and technology modernization.
- Trusted, collaborative change leader with strong executive presence.
Compensation/Benefits (as stated):
- Expected salary range: $236,000–$439,400 per year.
- Performance-based cash incentive; potential eligibility for annual equity awards.
- US-based eligible employees: comprehensive benefits package including health, life, disability, 401(k) with company contribution/match, and time off.
Application instructions:
- No application instructions provided in the text.
- Serve as the enterprise architect for incentive compensation, shaping a future-ready strategy that aligns performance measurement and rewards with evolving commercial and customer engagement priorities.
- Partner with Sales Leadership, Therapeutic Area leaders, Finance, P&O, Legal, Compliance, and Technology to ensure incentive compensation is fair, compliant, scalable, and aligned to enterprise goals.
- Position incentive compensation as a strategic lever that drives the right behaviors and outcomes.
- Lead the design and continuous evolution of incentive frameworks, ensuring alignment with field roles, portfolio needs, and go-to-market models.
- Own enterprise governance, including decision rights, documentation standards, change management, and escalation pathways.
- Provide executive oversight of end-to-end incentive compensation delivery, ensuring accurate, timely, trusted reporting and payouts.
- Champion operational excellence with Sales Operations, Analytics, Finance, Data Enablement, and Technology to maintain an audit-ready environment.
- Drive modernization of incentive compensation tools, platforms, and processes to increase transparency and reduce manual effort.
- Lead, develop, and inspire a high-performing incentive compensation organization.
Essential Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree (4-year).
- 10+ years’ analytics experience in pharma/biotech/healthcare (or similar) with large, geographically dispersed sales teams; including 6+ years in an Incentive Compensation role with strong achievements.
- Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-scale incentive compensation strategy, design, and execution in highly matrixed organizations.
- Strong track record partnering with senior commercial and finance leaders to deliver business outcomes.
- Proven success leading teams through transformation, modernization, and operating model evolution.
- Ability to attract, develop, and retain diverse talent.
- Strategic and analytical thinker with strong cross-functional leadership; experience managing complex initiatives and budgets.
- Executive presence and systems thinking; comfort navigating ambiguity.
Desirable Requirements:
- Expertise in incentive compensation governance, compliance, operational risk, and technology modernization.
- Trusted, collaborative change leader with strong executive presence.
Compensation/Benefits (as stated):
- Expected salary range: $236,000–$439,400 per year.
- Performance-based cash incentive; potential eligibility for annual equity awards.
- US-based eligible employees: comprehensive benefits package including health, life, disability, 401(k) with company contribution/match, and time off.
Application instructions:
- No application instructions provided in the text.