BSI HEAD HEOR

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Job Description Summary

The Executive Director, HEOR BSI is accountable for end-to-end HEOR capability leadership across BSI (Hyderabad & Dublin), enabling IV&A to deliver on its 2030 ambition through evidence shaping, launch excellence and value maintenance. The role leads a large, multi-disciplinary organization (~80 FTEs) and acts as a strategic partner to the IV&A LT and International HEOR & HTA Leadership Team, shaping access strategies, influencing critical business decisions, and elevating BSI from a delivery organization to a strategic, enterprise-first capability hub.

This role requires enterprise leadership, transformation capability and cross-functional influence at scale, with accountability for delivering both business impact and capability evolution across the full product lifecycle.

Job Description

Location – Hyderabad #LI Hybrid

Key Responsibilities:

Enterprise Leadership & Strategic Impact

Act as a core strategic partner to IV&A LT and HEOR & HTA leadership, shaping global access, pricing and evidence strategies.

Drive enterprise-first prioritization and resource allocation, aligning HEOR capabilities to portfolio priorities, tollgates and pipeline dynamics.

Full Accountability for HEOR Business Impact

Own end-to-end HEOR BSI performance, including quality, impact, and business outcomes of evidence generation, HTA submissions, modelling and value communication.

Ensure HEOR outputs directly influence payer decisions, pricing strategy and access outcomes, beyond delivery excellence.

Transformation of BSI HEOR into Strategic Capability Hub

Lead the transition from “service provider” to strategic partner, addressing current challenges around fragmented capabilities, inconsistent accountability and silos.

Build and embed capability-focused operating model (SME depth, discipline-led teams, AI-enabled delivery).

Leadership of Large-Scale Organization (~80 FTEs)

Lead a multi-layered leadership team across multiple disciplines, ensuring strong succession pipelines, leadership capability and engagement.

Act as V&A BSI site representative in Hyderabad, shaping culture, engagement, and leadership visibility.

Operating Model & Capability Evolution

Drive clear accountability, role clarity and governance across the HEOR value chain.

Embed AI, data, and platform capabilities to improve efficiency and scale across the Book of Work.

Cross-functional Influence & Stakeholder Leadership

Partner with R&D, S&G, Access, Pricing and TA leaders to co-create evidence strategies and integrated access plans.

Influence decisions at portfolio, TA and enterprise level, not only within HEOR.

Essential Requirements:

15+ years’ experience in HEOR / Market Access / Evidence Strategy with demonstrated enterprise impact

Proven track record of leading large global organizations (50+ FTE) and developing senior leaders

Experience operating at LT/Executive interface, influencing strategy and business outcomes

Strong capability in organizational transformation, operating model redesign and capability build

Ability to drive cross-functional alignment and enterprise-wide change

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

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

Accessibility and accommodation:

Novartis is 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 recruitment process, or to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to diversityandincl.india@novartis.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.

Skills Desired

Cross-Functional Collaboration, Cross-Functional Leadership, Data Analysis, Employee Development, Finance, Health Economics, Health Technology Assessment (HTA), Influencing Skills, Innovation, Inspirational Leadership, People Management, Pharmacoeconomics, Process Management, Product Launches, Project Management, Real World Evidence (RWE), Regulatory Compliance, Research Methodologies, Resource Allocation, Results-Oriented, Risk Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Management, Statistical Analysis, Value Propositions

How we score this

BSI HEAD HEOR at Novartis scores 28 out of 100 on AI centrality, which makes it AI Level 1 of 4 (Little AI) on this board. The level measures how much of the work is AI, not seniority.

Classification

AI Level 1. The work itself involves no AI, or AI only appears as scenery, such as a company tagline.