Head, AI Strategy and Governance — Novartis

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Salary Range: CHF164,500.00 - CHF305,500.00 Job Description Summary Location: Multiple Location Opening, please apply to the location preferred. #LI-Hybrid The Head, AI Strategy & Governance is responsible for maintaining, operationalizing, and continuously improving the Development AI strategy, governance model, and decision-support processes in partnership with the Head of Development AI and senior leadership. The role enables and drives strategic decision-making for the AI portfolio, ensuring that priorities, investments, and capability evolution are consistently informed by robust competitive intelligence, external benchmarking, and market signals. Acting as the central strategic integrator across Development, DDIT, and enterprise AI bodies, the role ensures that governance forums, portfolio recommendations, and enterprise interfaces are well-run, evidence-based, and aligned, while final strategy, investment, and governance decisions remain with accountable senior leaders and decision forums. Job Description AI Strategy, Competitive Intelligence & Strategic Positioning

• Maintain and evolve the Development AI strategic narrative, planning materials, and strategic priorities in partnership with the Head of Development AI
• Establish and continuously mature a structured competitive intelligence capability (external benchmarking, competitor tracking, regulatory and technology landscape monitoring)
• Synthesize competitive intelligence into actionable strategic insights to support leadership decision-making
• Prepare decision materials enabling leadership trade-offs across AI initiatives based on value, risk, and competitive positioning
• Monitor changes in the external landscape and recommend updates to strategic priorities, assumptions, and focus areas
• Provide clear strategic visibility to senior leadership through structured updates and decision support AI Portfolio Strategy & Value Governance
• Maintain portfolio prioritization principles, decision frameworks, and evaluation criteria used by leadership to make investment decisions
• Integrate competitive intelligence, external benchmarks, and innovation signals into portfolio recommendations
• Coordinate portfolio reviews and prepare recommendations on priorities, sequencing, and trade-offs
• Maintain the value governance framework, including methods for defining, measuring, and assessing AI impact
• Track and report portfolio-level progress, decision follow-through, and value realization for leadership forums AI Governance & Risk Oversight (Strategic)
• Maintain and continuously improve the Development AI governance framework, processes, and maturity roadmap in partnership with accountable leaders.
• Ensure alignment of governance approach with enterprise frameworks, regulatory expectations, and Responsible AI standards.
• Monitor governance effectiveness, risk themes, and compliance signals, and escalate issues to accountable decision-makers.
• Clarify governance roles, responsibilities, and forum interfaces to support effective decision-making and accountability AI Operating Model & Organizational Design
• Maintain and refine the Development AI operating model, including governance processes, decision interfaces, and role clarity
• Document and socialize decision rights, escalation paths, and accountability structures
• Coordinate interfaces across Strategy, Governance, Product & Program Delivery, DSAI, DDIT, and enterprise AI teams
• Recommend operating model improvements to support scale, clarity, and execution effectiveness Governance Bodies & Enterprise Liaison
• Run and coordinate AI governance forums within Development, including agenda-setting, decision preparation, documentation, and follow-through
• Serve as key liaison to enterprise AI Office, Trailblazer, and company-wide governance bodies
• Coordinate Development inputs into enterprise AI discussions and communicate outcomes back to stakeholders
• Support leadership by ensurin