Hybrid Associate Director, Consulting & Program Management – Launch Execution

at Novartis

• Job title: Associate Director, Consulting & Program Management – Launch Execution
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: PMP
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Prague, Czech

About the role

• Associate Director managing international product launches at Novartis, overseeing cross-functional teams and ensuring customer satisfaction throughout launch lifecycles.

Responsibilities

• Provide program management support to cross-functional product teams assembled for each disease area, asset, or brand.
• Establish and maintain standardized ways of working within launch teams and with top countries and regions.
• Use project management skills to integrate best practices within the launch teams.
• Partner with the international Brand Lead to define launch governance, develop global launch plans, and set priorities.
• Establish and maintain program governance forums for the brand or disease area and act as secretary of these meetings, consolidating agendas, tracking actions, and monitoring risks.
• Identify, manage, and track launch critical paths and dependencies.
• Project manages the development of brand strategic plans within the international cross-functional team.
• Lead annual tactical planning and budget building processes, supporting prioritization, budget finalization, and communication across the cross-functional product team.
• Implement standardized PM tools and practices to support cross-functional planning, deliverables, and action tracking.
• Support tracking of launch readiness KPIs for international and top country teams.
• Foster collaboration among launch program and project managers to enable knowledge sharing and consistency in delivering identified strategies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (BS or BA) required.
• 8+ years of program management experience in large, complex initiatives, including product launches.
• 5+ years of experience in commercial, marketing, or launch functions, with experience in both domestic and international launches.
• 5+ years of experience in the life sciences industry (pharmaceutical, biotech, biopharma, med device, med tech, etc.).
• Professional project management training.
• MBA or Master’s degree (Desirable).
• PMP and/or Agile certification (Desirable).
• Languages: English.

Benefits

• Monthly pension contribution matching your individual contribution up to 3% of your gross monthly base salary;
• Risk Life Insurance (full cost covered by Novartis);
• 5-week holiday per year; (1 week above the Labour Law requirement);
• 4 paid sick days within one calendar year in case of absence due to sickness without a medical sickness report;
• Cafeteria employee benefit program – choice of benefits from Benefit Plus Cafeteria in the amount of 17,500 CZK per year;
• Meal vouchers in amount of 105 CZK for each working day (full tax covered by company);
• Public Transportation Allowance;
• MultiSport Card;
• Employee Share Purchase Plan.