Key responsibilities:

• Provide robust and increasingly autonomous business partnering with a focus on enabling day to day initiatives and innovation within ethical standards while managing risk.
• Offer Novartis associates and the business, critical guidance, support, direction and insights into ethical considerations, applicable codes and regulatory requirements, enabling informed and risk-based decisions.
• As enterprise connector, embrace an enterprise-view to connect functions and people, removing silos, managing complexity and co-creating solutions.
• Support the development of an ethical culture as espoused by the Code of Ethics and working across functions/departments to shape the environment that fosters ethical decisions making.
• Support the strengthening of an ethical culture as espoused by the Code of Ethics and work across functions/departments to shape the environment that fosters ethical decisions making.

What you’ll bring to the role:

Essential:

• Bachelor’s degree in science, Life Sciences or any other related fields, Business, Finance or Law. Any additional relevant certification is a plus.
• Significant experience in the Pharma/Life Sciences/healthcare industry.
• Strong autonomous business partnering, a strong inclination to continuous improvement and a solution-oriented mentality. Proven capacity to sift through complexity to provide timely and pragmatic solutions to the business.
• Ability to analyze complex ethical/compliance issues and offer advice to enable business make timely and ethical decisions.
• Results oriented, customer focused and with excellent interpersonal skills.

Desirable:

• Knowledge and experience with the Canadian Pharma/Bio-Pharma industry and industry ethical standards is a definite plus
• Bilingual (English & French)