Access Excellence Director in Basel

This is a temporary contractor opportunity at Novartis

Novartis touches the lives of a tenth of the world’s population. Every role here, regardless of contract type, makes an impact on human life!

This role is offered through Magnit Global, who, if selected, will be your employer. If your services are retained, you will be assigned to provide services to Novartis as the end client. This is not an offer of employment with Novartis. If you are selected for this Temporary/External opportunity, you will not be an employee of Novartis and will not be eligible for any Novartis employee benefits or incentives.

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Position Purpose:

The Access Excellence Director is part of Access excellence organization responsible for enabling access performance, raising the bar for how access is planned, executed and measured. Leads IV&A data management, analytics strategy, performance management enablers in partnership with other V&A teams, regions, priority countries and other cross-functional teams as applicable.

The role is responsible for driving operational excellence & continuous improvement in execution across International & key markets. Access Excellence director serves as single point of contact for annual budget management, process excellence, defining book of workIV&A governance processes, SoPs & knowledge management platforms

This role ensures high data integrity, disciplined KPI management, systematic best practice sharing, effective budget stewardship, enabling predictable, high quality access outcomes.

Major Accountabilities and Responsibilities:

• Monitor and strengthen IV&A governance processes, book of work for IV&A pillars and decision support systems. Accountable for driving operational excellence, building and running a robust access performance & governance process.
• Support IV&A senior leadership to drive data driven decision making using deliverables defined as per IV&A book of work, access KPIs and dashboards.
• Define and own access data standards, definitions & quality control measures aligned with Enterprise data management guidelines. Ownerships of IV&A sharepoints and other knowledge management platforms
• Partner with IT, analytics and markets to enable reliable data flows into performance management systems and enable adoption across countries. Act as single point of accountability for “one source of access data”
• Design and maintain an enterprise access KPI framework, book of work across pre-launch, launch, post-launch & LoE. Embed KPI led decision making into access leadership forums & governance process
• Lead annual budgeting process for IV&A, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities. Track spend vs outcomes, analytics across IV&A pillars e.g. HEOR, Pricing, TA Access, Access Excellence. Support business cases and investment decisions, trade offs with respect to budgets.
• Build a strong culture of accountability, learning and continuous improvement in collaboration with cross functional partners (HEOR, Pricing, TA Access, Access Excellence, Finance etc)
• Effectively work in matrix organization: balancing cross-functional perspectives and alignment with business priorities against available resources.
• Ensure appropriate Ethics, Risks, compliance procedures are followed as per company policies and procedures.

Requirements:

Must have’s:

• 8+ years of experience in value & access roles and / or Operational excellence roles / Access Operations roles
• 2+ years International or regional experience in operational excellence, access roles
• Proven experience building KPI frameworks, access governance process, dashboards
• Strong understanding of access data & systems and governance models
• Experience managing budgets
• High comfort operating in matrixed, global environments

Key Leadership Capabilities required:

• Demonstrates strong communication skills and can influence across a range of diverse stakeholders to drive change
• Balances strategy and operational excellence to ensure end to end execution of the strategy
• Effectively balances the needs of various stakeholders and defines priorities based on highest impact for business and patients
• Strong solution-orientation and enterprise mindset
• Competitive and entrepreneurial mindset with proven track record of fostering innovation

Preferred:

• 7+ years of experience in value & access roles with experience in Access operations
• MBA, Ph.D., M.D. or RPh
• 5+ years International markets or regional experience

Workload: 100%
Role type: Onsite
Required start date: October/November 2026
Contract: 12 months

Why Novartis:

Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together?

EEO Statement:

The Novartis Group of Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Accommodation:

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to Magnit at

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