Novartis
Dir, Enterprise Investment Strategy & Optimization
$186K–$344K
East Hanover · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Experience
- Minimum 8+ years; specified fields include resource allocation, investment optimization, commercial analytics, strategic finance, or management consulting within pharmaceutical or healthcare.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Engineering, or a related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
About the job
Leads US-wide investment and resource optimization recommendations across external spend, capabilities, and workforce, partnering with Finance and senior business leaders to guide investment decisions.
What you'll do
- Set enterprise standards and recommendations for resource optimization across the US portfolio.
- Partner with Finance, strategy, modeling teams, and US leadership to translate analytics into investment guidance.
- Lead a small US team and extended team members in HYD.
What they ask for
- At least 8 years in resource allocation, investment optimization, commercial analytics, strategic finance, or management consulting in pharmaceutical or healthcare.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience translating quantitative model output into senior-level strategic recommendations and interrogating investment optimization methodologies.
- Experience partnering with Finance on budget, investment, or headcount planning; people management experience; proficiency with Excel and data visualization tools.
Nice to have
- MBA or advanced degree.
- Top-tier consulting or strategic in-house experience in portfolio prioritization, optimization, transformation, or operating model redesign.
Pay
$185,500.00 - $344,500.00 USD base salary
Tools
Excel, Power BI, Tableau
AI focus
AI-enabled decision-making is mentioned as desirable ecosystem knowledge; the role focuses on interpreting optimization models and using their outputs for investment recommendations.
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