Major accountabilities:

• Leads, manages & develops the overall performance of the country, collaborating with global and regional leaders to set strategy for current/future product portfolio, delivering sales and profits within agreed budgets, and providing effective leadership of its business divisions, functional groups, and support teams.
• Defines and communicates clear business vision and strategy (based on global vision/strategy) for the DA/ asset and ensures that these are reflected in a focused, lean, and responsive organization.
• Inputs into overall TA strategy, leadership ambition and pipeline/ portfolio decisions.
• Accountable for impactful, actionable early brand strategies until handover to International, by co-developing Integrated Insights Plan, consolidating and aligning inputs and requirements across functions to achieve deep DA ecosystem understanding (patient journey, competitive, access landscape, HCS budget impact and cost effectiveness analysis).
• Fosters an excellence-oriented and customer-focused culture, innovation, and builds best-in-class teams that fully exploit all market opportunities, and internal systems, programs, and tools.
• Drives talent acquisition, succession planning and development of associates.
• Fosters an unbossed, inspired & culture; leads by example while being self-aware and creating a culture of feedback.
• Ensures alignment and creates a common cross-divisional platform for successful collaboration within Novartis.
• Fosters strong collaboration between all divisions and ensures alignment in external stakeholder agenda, policies and compliance approaches while optimizing business synergies for the Novartis Group in the country.
• Maintains and further builds Novartis’ reputation for integrity, shapes the political and legislative environment, maximizes Novartis business opportunities by building and maintaining

Minimum Requirements:
Work Experience:

• Leading large and/or diverse multi-functional teams in Pharma Companies.
• People Leadership.

Skills:

• Business Development.
• Business Strategy.
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership.
• Healthcare Sector Understanding.
• Inspirational Leadership.
• Market Access.
• People Management.
• Stakeholder Management.
• Strategic Partnerships.

Languages :

• English
• Albanian 

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