Chief Scientific Officer, Israel

The Chief Scientific Officer is the lead country medical professional, responsible for driving the near- and long-term country medical strategy, forging ambitious strategic partnership with the healthcare communities and governmental entities.

 

Directly reports to the General Manager of Israel.

 

Your Key Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• • Manage and develop the overall performance of the medical unit in country. Drive outstanding launch preparedness and launch execution (incl. ensuring that diagnostic/biomarker availability at launch and overcoming local data gaps also for HTA Submission – when applicable).

• • Accountable that Target Patient Population Outcomes (TPOs) are updated and relevant, and that they are being tracked, resourced, and impacted at CPO level with appropriate regional and global support for all franchises.

• • Raises country medical and clinical interests into global and regional strategy and planning prelaunch starting at DDP, through providing timely and strategic feedback to GPTs. In line with the evolving healthcare ecosystem, proactively and strategically builds ambitious partnerships beyond the traditional Healthcare professionals and organizations. Identifies opportunities for joint value creation deploying new engagement models of broader reach.

• • Engages with key patient associations, academic societies, patients, payers and reimbursement bodies as well as the relevant healthcare systems, to harness opportunities and share ownership in transforming the clinical practice with efficient access and better outcomes for real world patients.

• • Ensures implementation science plans in place early and holistically to systematically shape health policy and practice guidelines converging clinical innovations and treatments into better standards of care via better disease management. Depth of insight and understanding of local

• • Healthcare ecosystem and contextual system challenges to ensure early reimbursement and patient adherence.

• • Builds and facilitates close cross-functional equal partner collaboration with key internal customers, co creating and leading where vital. Function as the key medical interface to CPO head,

• • Value & Access, TA Heads and BE&E Heads or similar position, GDD representatives, Public Affairs, and compliance teams as well as related Regional teams. In partnership with country Regulatory Affairs, develops and manages long-term relationships with local Regulatory agencies and relevant medical societies.

• • Represent Novartis at key external governmental, scientific, clinical, and medical events to educate, advocate and support innovation and evidence-based research. Encourages earlier initiation of innovative integrated evidence generation strategies, novel research activities, and local collaborative and impactful partnership engagements. Supports utility of RWE innovative study designs and exploratory trials.

• • Encourages utility of more innovative digital technologies for more significant and impactful engagements and data generation and utilization. Foresees that all local studies are developed and timely performed based on country evidence gaps. Ensures effective communication plans in place for external customer education and advocacy.

• • In close collaboration with Global Drug Development (GDD), cultivates strategic and effective co-creation and collaboration plans, for allocation and execution of clinical trials within the country, as vital. Local portfolio prioritization to craft GDD trial strategies and resource allocation. P3 approval for events/ materials used by TMO and collaboration to upgrade capability of investigators, Ethics Committees etc. CMO is country manager for CRMA.

• • Maintains and drives the standards of medical and scientific excellence in the country through recruitment selection, deployment and capability upskilling of agile innovative talent together with P&O. Owns and optimizes medical resources and allocation. Inspire people through role modelling cultural behaviors to enable the organization to transform & perform.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

 

Role Requirements

What you’ll bring to the role:

• • Education: Medical doctor

• • Proficient Hebrew and English, both written and spoken.

• • 10+ years of proven experience at pharmaceutical companies, HTA, physician associations or health care consultancy companies or equivalent experience.

• • Proven track record to network with all levels of external collaborators and work in matrix environment distilling and prioritizing market needs and deliverables.

• • Strong leadership and influencing skills in a matrix; articulate vision for MA in the Country; build externally focused culture.

• • Deep understanding of drug development and approval processes, including experience designing and/or completing clinical studies.

• • Excellent writing, communication, and interpersonal skills, strong solution-orientation and intuition for business.

 

Desirable Requirements:

• • Oncologist background.

• • Proven experience working with successful regional and local medical and access teams in healthcare/life sciences industry.

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? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

 

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