Associate Director, Product & Platform Strategy

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Novartis is seeking an Associate Director, Product & Platform Strategy to help translate strategic business priorities into coordinated product, platform, data, and technology plans.

This role will partner across business, product, technology, data, architecture, and delivery teams to frame complex opportunities, facilitate the evaluation of potential approaches, assess cross-functional impacts, and build alignment around a recommended path forward. The individual will connect related development efforts and translate the agreed direction into high level sequenced delivery plans that clarify required capabilities, dependencies, decision points, ownership, and timing.

The successful candidate will combine strong product or platform strategy experience with practical program planning capabilities. This individual may lead program execution for select initiatives, but the primary responsibility is to create the strategic clarity, cross-functional alignment, and executable plan needed to enable successful delivery.

This role does not own detailed requirements, technical architecture, solution design, product backlogs, or the day-to-day delivery of individual product teams. Instead, it brings together the appropriate experts and accountable teams to evaluate options, understand impacts, make informed recommendations, and coordinate the transition into delivery.

• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to understand strategic priorities, business opportunities, challenges, and desired outcomes.
• Translate complex or ambiguous needs into clearly framed opportunities and capability considerations.
• Develop a holistic view of the products, platforms, data assets, and technology capabilities relevant to an opportunity.
• Facilitate evaluation of how existing and planned capabilities could be leveraged to address business needs.
• Identify capability gaps, overlaps, dependencies, and opportunities for reuse across products and platforms.
• Help ensure proposed approaches align with broader product, platform, data, and technology strategies.
• Develop strategic recommendations and decision materials informed by input from accountable subject-matter experts.

• Bring together Product Management, Architecture, Data, Engineering, Operations, and other subject-matter experts to explore potential solution approaches.
• Structure and facilitate the evaluation of options based on expected value, strategic alignment, feasibility, complexity, scalability, reuse, dependencies, and delivery implications.
• Coordinate cross-functional impact assessments across products, platforms, data, integrations, processes, stakeholder groups, and delivery teams.
• Ensure the appropriate experts identify the capabilities, investments, decisions, and dependencies required to advance an initiative.
• Synthesize expert input into a cohesive view of potential approaches, trade-offs, risks, and downstream impacts.
• Surface cross-functional considerations that may not be visible within individual product or delivery teams.
• Ensure detailed requirements, technical design, architecture decisions, and backlog ownership remain with the appropriate accountable teams.

• Translate an agreed strategic direction into a sequenced and actionable delivery plan.
• Work with accountable product and delivery leaders to define major capabilities, work streams, dependencies,…