Salary Range:

£67,900.00 - £126,100.00

 

Job Description Summary

As Medical Lead Immunology, you will provide strategic scientific leadership for the Immunology therapeutic area, shaping the local medical strategy in line with global and international priorities. You will lead scientific engagement strategy, steer evidence generation priorities, drive high-value external partnerships, and ensure medical plans are translated into impactful outcomes.
You will collaborate across functions and with external stakeholders to drive scientific excellence, advance patient outcomes, and support the successful delivery of the Immunology portfolio.

 

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for medical input to cross-functional brand planning.
• Translate external insights, evolving standards of care, and evidence gaps into actionable recommendations that inform therapeutic area priorities, cross-functional decision-making, and long-term medical impact
• When indicated undertake pipeline assessments and launch planning activities
• Design, execute medical education initiatives and ensure quality of scientific materials
• Organise congress activities in collaboration with cross‑functional teams.
• Leads high-level scientific engagement, builds and sustains strong scientific relationships with Medical Experts, relevant system stakeholders, professional societies and patient organisations, fostering credible, unbiased scientific dialogue.
• Represent Novartis as a credible scientific voice at congresses, scientific events, and expert forums.
• Strengthen connections across the medical ecosystem to support joint value creation and external collaboration.
• Implement external scientific engagement activities
• Ensure compliant, evidence‑based interactions consistently aligned with Novartis governance.
• Synthesise insights to influence TA strategy, identify evidence gaps, and shape medical priorities.
• Contribute to local TA evidence strategy and medical leadership of local studies including real world evidence. Input to local clinical trial feasibility as directed.
• Contribute to market access readiness in collaboration with V&A by informing the market access dossier with clinical attributes and patient-related outcomes.
• Ensures all activities run to internal and external standards and to time and budget.
• Responsible for timely and appropriate assessments of managed access requests, cross border requests, study proposals, and support for (medical) sponsorships and congress attendance for medical education.
• Support for critical activities in TA aligned commercial products.
• Drive a culture of innovation, collaboration, integrity, inclusion, and continuous learning across the team.
• Support onboarding and mentor junior team members
• Ensure all activities are conducted in accordance with applicable Novartis policies, industry regulations, and ethical standards.
• Foster strong cross-functional collaboration with commercial, market access, regulatory, clinical development, and global medical teams.

 

Essential Requirements

• Advanced scientific degree (MD, PharmD, PhD, MSc, or equivalent) in a relevant life sciences discipline.
• Significant experience within Medical Affairs, Medical Affairs, customer‑facing scientific roles, cross‑functional collaboration, external engagement, clinical study design, clinical/scientific communication   
• Experience translating external insights and scientific trends into therapeutic area strategy, evidence priorities, or medical planning.
• Strategic thinking with the ability to translate scientific insights, external trends, and evidence gaps into clear therapeutic area priorities and actionable recommendations.
• Experience influencing cross-functional decisions
• Strong strategic thinking skills with the ability to translate strategy into execution.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders in a matrix environment and partnering with senior internal and external stakeholders to shape medical priorities and engagement approaches. 
• Deep understanding of medical governance, compliance requirements, and the healthcare environment.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Growth mindset, agility, and comfort with ambiguity.
• High integrity, ethical judgment, and a patient‑centric mindset.
• Excellent communicator with the ability to simplify complex scientific concepts for diverse audiences.
• Fluent in English
   

Why Novartis?

Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people's lives. Join us and help bring innovative medicines to patients while working in an environment that inspires collaboration, innovation, and personal growth.

You'll be part of a diverse and inclusive culture where you'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on patients, healthcare systems, and communities around the world.
 

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

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

Key Performance Indicators

• Impact, timely execution and execution quality of Immunology Medical Plan
• Quality, relevance and credibility of medical materials, scientific communication and peer to peer scientific engagement.
• Timeliness and quality of insight generation and integration into TA planning.
• Quality of strategic input to evidence generation and cross-functional decision-making.
• Effectiveness in identifying emerging scientific trends, evidence gaps, and partnership opportunities.
• Demonstration of the highest standards of ethics, compliance, and scientific excellence
• Cross‑functional alignment and effectiveness
   

  Benefits & Rewards 

  At Novartis, we’re committed to reimagining medicine together - and rewarding the people who make it happen. 

    

  Expected Annual Base Salary Range for role:  67,900.00 - 97,000.00 - 126,100.00 GBP Annual

    

  The base salary offered is determined based on gender-neutral objectives, such as relevant skills, competencies and experience in accordance with the Novartis pay setting policy and upon joining Novartis will be reviewed periodically. 

    

  In addition to your base salary, you may be eligible for a performance-based bonus depending on certain performance parameters. 

    

  The rewards of being part of our team go far beyond base pay and incentives. We also offer a variety of competitive benefits in kind to help you thrive personally and professionally, such as insurance plans, retirement plans, wellbeing resources and global recognition programs. In addition, we provide flexible and hybrid working options, where possible, and minimum 14 weeks paid parental leave. 

  You may be eligible for a company vehicle or a car allowance in accordance with the applicable local Novartis policies and guidelines. 

  Pay equity is a fundamental principle of our employment policy and reflects our commitment to create a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment that treats all employees with dignity and respect, as outlined in our Code of Ethics. 

    

  Read our brochure to learn more about our global total rewards offering: 

    

  https://www.novartis.com/sites/novartis_com/files/novartis-life-handbook.pdf 

 

Skills Desired

Clinical Protocols, Clinical Protocols, Cross-Functional Work, Data Analysis, Drug Development, Employee Development, Healthcare Sector Understanding (Inactive), Health Sciences, Influencing Skills, Innovation, Inspirational Leadership, Integrated Evidence Generation (Inactive), Medical Affairs, Medical Communications, Medical Education (Inactive), Patient Care, People Management, Pharmaceutics, Priority Disease Areas Expertise (Inactive), Product Launches, Product Strategies, Real World Evidence (RWE), Regulatory Compliance, Research Methodologies, Results-Oriented {+ 3 more}