ED, Head of Analytics Engineering

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Job Description Summary

Job Description

The Insights and Decision Science (IDS) team is dedicated to enabling improved decision-making at Novartis by leveraging data and advanced analytics capabilities to generate actionable insights that drive business growth. We collaborate closely with the US business bringing insights and challenging ideas to empower smarter data-driven decision-making. We are seeking a visionary and pragmatic leader to build and institutionalize the foundation for analytics at scale. This role will architect the systems standards and capabilities that enable high-quality consistent and scalable analytics across our organization. By defining frameworks ensuring rigor and connecting cross-functional efforts this leader will make analytics a repeatable trusted and efficient enterprise capability.

Key Responsibilities:

• Establish and champion analytics rigor including statistical standards validation protocols and QA practices.

• Define enterprise-wide frameworks for measurement performance metrics and reporting standards.

• Enable cross-functional synergy by connecting analytics efforts across Commercial Medical Market Access and other domains.

• Institutionalize analytics engineering as a core discipline including reusability of data pipelines analytics automation and production-grade analytics solutions.

• Develop scalable capabilities that allow solutions to be transferred across use cases quickly and effectively.

• Support governance and compliance ensuring analytical outputs meet regulatory and ethical standards.

Essential Requirements:

• Bachelors or masters degree in business administration Computer Science Engineering or a related field.

• 10 years of experience in data/analytics with demonstrated success in building scalable systems or frameworks.

• Proven track record of establishing analytics standards governance or platform capabilities.

• Strong cross-functional experience ideally within Commercial Medical or Market Access analytics in life sciences or a regulated industry.

• Experience with analytics engineering BI tooling and data infrastructure concepts.

• Excellent communication and influence skills especially with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualities:

• Systems thinker with a deep understanding of how analytics drive decisions across an enterprise.

• Builder mindset: enjoys creating structure from ambiguity and scaling impact.

• Comfortable balancing strategic design and operational execution.

• Deep understanding of data lifecycle from data ingestion to decision-making impact.

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $214900.00 and $399100.00 a year; however while salary ranges are effective from 1/1/25 through 12/31/25 fluctuations in the job market may necessitate adjustments to pay ranges during this period. Further final pay determinations will depend on various factors including but not limited to geographical location experience level knowledge skills and abilities. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements including a sign-on bonus restricted stock units and discretionary awards in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits such as vacation sick time and parental leave) dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. If hired employee will be in an at-will position and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time including for reasons related to individual performance Company or individual department/team performance and market factors.

EEO Statement:

The Novartis Group of Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers. We do not discriminate in recruitment hiring training promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race color religion gender national origin age sexual orientation gender identity or expression marital or veteran status disability or any other legally protected status. We strive to create an inclusive workplace that cultivates bold innovation through collaboration and empowers our people to unleash their full potential.

Accessibility and reasonable accommodations

The Novartis Group of Companies are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If because of a medical condition or disability you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process or in order to perform the essential functions of a position please send an e-mail to call 1 and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.

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