RA Digital Innovation Platform Lead

Job Description Summary

Office Location: London (The Westworks), United Kingdom

#LI-Hybrid Hybrid (12 days per month on-site if living within 50 miles of our London office)
#LI-Remote Remote (if living beyond 50 miles of our London office)

As a member of the RA Data & Technology Global Leadership Team, the RA Digital Innovation Platform Lead adds value to the strategic vision of Regulatory Affairs by leading a team of associates to support the digitalization of RA by identifying, exploring and delivering digital innovation and automation opportunities.

 

Job Description

Major Accountabilities:

• Foster a culture of innovation within regulatory affairs by actively proposing and
• entertaining disruptive ideas and technologies challenging the status quo and historical ways of working, leveraging a creative design thinking approach and experiences from other industries.
• Develops compelling, value-driven business proposals for project funding.
• Identify relevant existing Capability or evaluates disruptive technologies for the
• business through delivery of minimum viable products (MVPs) and proof of concepts (PoCs).
• Pro-actively evaluates opportunities for digital innovation and automation delivery across varying areas of technological disciplines with the objective of meeting business needs.
• Leads the implementation and scale-up of digital innovation and automation in collaboration with relevant Capability Leads and IT innovation partners.
• Builds and maintains collaborative and productive partnerships across the Platform team and enterprise stakeholders to achieve business priorities.
• Anticipates and actively manages changes by updating on ongoing activities and current initiatives. Identifies risks and enables its’ resolution. Escalates issues when necessary to facilitate resolution at the appropriate level.
• Enable early adoption of emerging technologies and associated organizational change management.

Minimum Requirements:

• Experience in technology or regulatory affairs with proven track record of deploying automation and innovation solutions, ideally within the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry.
• In-depth understanding of drug development, regulatory requirements processes and technology and data-driven needs within Regulatory Affairs.
• Strong strategic problem-solving skills and innovative mind-set.
• Strong project/program management skills including change management experience.
• Passionate about cutting edge digital innovation and enjoys working in uncertain environment and uncharted territory.
• Demonstrated leadership in driving clear strategic thinking, prioritization, maintaining awareness of business impact.
• Strong negotiation skills.
• Requirements gathering and accurately connecting the dots even when there’s ambiguity.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion/EEO

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

 

Skills Desired

Data Analysis, Documentation Management, Lifesciences, People Management, Proactivity, Process Improvement, Regulatory Compliance, Waterfall Model