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Novartis Tech Stack

Global pharmaceutical innovator scaling AI and manufacturing operations across 250M patient reach

Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Basel, Baselstadt 10,001+ employees Public Company

Novartis is a large-cap pharma manufacturer with 10,000+ employees distributed across R&D, clinical, manufacturing, and commercial functions. The company is actively adopting generative AI and open-source LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Llama, LangChain) while maintaining a legacy enterprise stack (Salesforce, SAP, Veeva CRM, Azure DevOps). Hiring velocity is accelerating across sales (438 open roles), healthcare operations (189), and manufacturing (138), with notable leadership gaps in data strategy and evidence generation — signaling investment in real-world trial execution and AI-driven patient insights.

Tech Stack 136 technologies

Core StackSalesforce Power BI Dynamics 365 SAP Snowflake Databricks SQL Server Azure DevOps Jira Jenkins JavaScript Apex AWS AWS RDS Genesys Excel MES Microsoft Project Microsoft Office PLC SCADA Veeva CRM Salesforce CLI Git SQL SOQL REST SOAP HTML5 Lightning Web Components+100 more
AdoptingOpenAI Anthropic LangChain Python Llama LlamaIndex DSPy

What Novartis Is Building

Challenges

  • Ensuring cgmp compliance
  • Product performance monitoring
  • Identifying growth opportunities
  • Improving patient access
  • Unmet customer and patient needs
  • Optimizing trial execution
  • Account challenges
  • Regulatory challenges
  • Risk mitigation
  • Complex access and reimbursement processes

Active Projects

  • Brand strategy implementation
  • Clinical trial development
  • Clinical research program support
  • Integrated evidence plan
  • Technology transfer
  • Patient access tool development
  • Support launch planning resource allocation
  • Supply chain finance integration
  • Implementation science projects
  • Ddit project portfolio management

Hiring Activity

Accelerating1,500 roles · 750 in 30d

Department

Sales
438
Healthcare
189
Marketing
174
Manufacturing
138
Research
131
Engineering
76
Data
65
Ops
57

Seniority

Senior
536
Mid
372
Director
213
Manager
119
Lead
88
Junior
74
Intern
25
Principal
14

Notable leadership hires: Program Head, Associate Director, Executive Director, Data Strategy Director, Evidence Generation Head

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About Novartis

Novartis develops and manufactures medicines across cardiovascular, immunology, neuroscience, oncology, hematology, and emerging modalities including xRNA, radioligand therapy, and gene/cell therapies. The product portfolio reaches over 250 million patients globally. Operations span R&D, clinical development, regulatory affairs, manufacturing (with MES and SCADA control systems), supply chain, and a 438-person sales organization. The company faces systematic pain points around cGMP compliance, trial optimization, patient access (reimbursement and access pathways), and identifying growth opportunities in competitive disease areas. Current projects focus on brand strategy, clinical trial execution, technology transfer, and supply chain finance integration.

HeadquartersBasel, Baselstadt
Company Size10,001+ employees
Hiring MarketsUkraine, Spain, France, Slovenia, Austria, Japan, Netherlands, United States

Frequently Asked Questions

What countries does Novartis hire in?

25 countries including Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, China, India, Japan, Israel, and across EU markets (Spain, France, Netherlands, Austria, Germany, Ireland). Also hiring in Ukraine, Russia, Brazil, and Asia-Pacific (Vietnam, Taiwan, Singapore, Philippines).

What tech stack does Novartis use?

Core enterprise: Salesforce, SAP, Dynamics 365, Veeva CRM. Data: Snowflake, Databricks, SQL Server, Power BI. Pharma-specific: MES (manufacturing execution), SCADA (plant control), PLC. Adopting: OpenAI, Anthropic, Llama, LangChain for AI/ML initiatives. Dev tools: Azure DevOps, Jira, Git, Jenkins.

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