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Senior Consultant, (Launch) BSI Consulting & Program Management

Novartis

5 - 10 years

Hyderabad

Posted: 06/09/2025

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Job Description

Summary

We are an innovative medicines company. Every day, we work to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives so that patients, healthcare professionals and societies are empowered in the face of serious diseases. Our medicines reach more than 250 million people worldwide. The role of our International Division is to ensure that our medicines reach every person who can benefit from them across all markets. Together, we reached more than 200 million patients in 2023, and we have the potential to impact the health of 7 billion people. We owe it to patients to be at our best and continue to aim higher and further.
Business Solutions International (BSI) is a newly established team within International with the objective to provide gold standard business solutions to drive excellence in delivery and innovation for International. Within BSI we have an internal consulting team which focuses on delivery management consulting and PMO projects across International.
As the Senior Consultant, (Launch) BSI Consulting & Program Management, you will play a pivotal role in shaping, delivering, and improving the execution of product launches across international and priority launch countries. Collaborating closely with the Brand Lead, you will oversee the commercial execution of launches, ensuring the highest levels of customer satisfaction throughout the launch lifecycle.

About the Role

 Key Responsibilities

  • Provide program management support to cross-functional product teams assembled for each disease area, asset, or brand.
  • 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 programs and project managers to enable knowledge sharing and consistency in delivering identified strategies.

Minimum Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree (BS or BA) required.
  • 5+ years of program management experience in large, complex initiatives, including product launches.
  • 2+ years of experience in commercial, marketing, or launch functions, with experience in both domestic and international launches.
  • 2+ years of experience in the life sciences industry (pharmaceutical, biotech, biopharma, med device, med tech, etc.).
  • Professional project management training.

Desirable Requirements

  • MBA or master’s degree.
  • PMP and/or Agile certification.

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

Join our Novartis Network: Not the right Novartis role for you? Sign up to our talent community to stay connected and learn about suitable career opportunities as soon as they come up: https://talentnetwork.novartis.com/network(link is external)

Benefits and Rewards: Read our handbook to learn about all the ways we’ll help you thrive personally and professionally: https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards

About Company

Novartis is a leading global healthcare company headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. It specializes in the research, development, manufacturing, and marketing of innovative pharmaceuticals. Formed in 1996 through the merger of Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz, Novartis focuses on areas such as oncology, neuroscience, immunology, cardiovascular diseases, and gene therapies.With a strong commitment to scientific innovation, Novartis invests heavily in R&D and collaborates with biotech companies and academic institutions worldwide. The company operates in over 140 countries and serves millions of patients globally. Novartis is also known for its efforts in access to medicine, using programs like Novartis Access and Novartis Foundation to support underserved populations.

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