Global pharmaceutical innovator scaling AI and manufacturing operations across 250M patient reach
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.
Notable leadership hires: Program Head, Associate Director, Executive Director, Data Strategy Director, Evidence Generation Head
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.
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).
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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