Summary
About the Role
Key responsibilities:
- Strategic initiatives: Support the Head Strategy, Sustainability & ESG with global initiatives in sustainability and ESG, e.g., lead and contribute to strategic projects and initiatives in the areas of health equity, social impact and environmental sustainability
- ESG 5-year roadmap: Contribute to the continued development and refinement of the 5-year sustainability and ESG strategy
- Governance processes & leadership support: Support key governance processes, owned by the ESG & Sustainability Office – incl. support the preparation of key leadership meetings (incl. ESG Committee, Executive-level decision board for ESG); act as Secretariat for the ESG Leaders Forum (one Executive-1 leader per unit/function responsible for Novartis cross-functional ESG strategy) and ESG Strategy LT (key stakeholders in units/functions)
- Commitment tracking: Lead ESG Commitments process oversight and tracking
- Capability building: Support training/learning concept and execution for the Board of Directors, Leadership, ESG Community and all-employee levels.
- Intelligence: Be on the forefront of knowledge in the sustainability and ESG space in the industry; support trend monitoring and benchmarking efforts; distill outputs and recommendations which enable informed decisions of top-level leaders
- External partnerships: Define and drive the sustainability & ESG engagement strategy for Novartis, with external stakeholders – including key events and memberships (Point of contact for external memberships)
What you’ll bring to the role:
Essential Criteria:
- Degree in Business, Engineering, Sustainability or Life Sciences (MBA a plus), or equivalent on-the-job experience.
- Strong knowledge of sustainability and ESG topics.
- Project and program management experience in strategic projects; management consulting background preferred (equal to associate, senior associate or project manager level) or other relevant work experience.....
- Ability to support and manage projects with high quality, interact with senior stakeholders and lead cross-functional project teams (internal stakeholders and external providers); strong attention to detail.
- Previous experience developing presentations for senior leaders, communicate and present clearly and make strategic recommendations in a complex matrix environment and to work at all levels of the organization, including senior stakeholders
Desirable skills:
- Previous experience in the pharmaceutical industry (industry knowledge)
Why Novartis? Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us! Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
Accessibility and accommodation:
Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to all individuals. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to receive more detailed information about the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to inclusion.switzerland@novartis.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
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High proficiency in English - both written and oral
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