Salary Range:
CHF146,300.00 - CHF271,700.00
Job Description Summary
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Location: Basel, Switzerland
Relocation Supported
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Novartis’ ambition is to be a recognized leader in Data, Analytics, AI & Platforms (DAP). As Director, Data Platform (Data and Semantic Enablement), you will act as a key data enablement partner for International, with focus on Medical Affairs (IMA) and Value & Access (V&A), helping these domains unlock value from structured and unstructured data in a trusted, scalable, governed and compliant way.
Historically, the International Data team has been primarily focused on Commercial data enablement, where data demand, global data products and platform maturity are more advanced. This role will support the expansion of Data, Analytics, AI & Platform capabilities into adjacent International domains, with an initial focus on IMA, V&A and Patient. You will be responsible for understanding business priorities, identifying data enablement needs, translating them into clear data and technology requirements, and co-leading the enablement of scalable data capabilities with DDIT, business stakeholders and other DAP teams.
A core focus of the role will be enabling the use of both structured and unstructured data across Commercial, Medical Affairs and Value & Access, use cases. This includes helping define the data foundations required to support analytics, advanced analytics, AI and Agent-based solutions, such as semantic layers, business ontologies, metadata, taxonomies, knowledge representations, vector databases, context engineering and retrieval-ready content/data structures.
You will help to ensure that business needs are translated into trusted, practical and scalable data enablement solutions, aligned with enterprise architecture, data governance, privacy, compliance and Novartis Enterprise Data Management standards.
You will work closely with IMA, V&A, AI & Data Science, Analytics, Data Platform, Marketing Platforms, other CLS teams, IRC (International/Regions/Countries), Strategy & Growth (S&G), DDIT, Finance, Ethics, Risk & Compliance, Legal and other stakeholders to ensure that data enablement capabilities effectively support the evolving International business agenda..
Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
Act as the main Data, Analytics, AI & Platform Data team point of contact for data enablement across International Medical Affairs (IMA), Value & Access (V&A) and Patient , partnering with business stakeholders to understand priorities, processes, analytics needs and AI/Agent opportunities.
Lead the expansion of International data capabilities beyond Commercial by establishing a scalable Data Enablement model for IMA, V&A and Patient, maximizing the reuse of existing data foundations, capabilities and standards.
Ensure that Novartis International is maximizing its investment in Data by leading as the internal expert and proactively educates stakeholders on the value, availability, and proper use of data while automating, cost optimizing and harmonizing for redundancy.
Identify, assess and prioritize structured and unstructured data needs across Commercial, IMA, V&A and Patient, including medical insights, field medical activity data, scientific content, publications, market access materials and other relevant sources.
Lead the definition of data enablement requirements for structured and unstructured data use cases, including data access, metadata enrichment, taxonomy alignment, semantic tagging, contextualization, retrieval requirements and AI-readiness.
Support the development and adoption of semantic and contextual data capabilities, including semantic layers, business glossaries, ontologies, taxonomies, knowledge graphs, vector databases and other structures that enable scalable analytics, AI and Agent-based solutions.
Define the business context, terminology, concepts, relationships, trusted sources and governance expectations required to make IMA, V&A and…