Executive Director, Corporate Affairs Engagement & Capability Building

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Level 7

 

Job Description Summary

This role offers a high-impact opportunity for a visionary, enterprise-minded leader to shape the future of Corporate Affairs. You will serve as the strategic architect for communications, engagement, and capability-building—aligning a global network of professionals around shared priorities, equipping them to lead with excellence, and fostering a culture of purpose and performance.

As a trusted advisor to the Corporate Affairs Leadership Team, you will champion initiatives that strengthen collaboration, accelerate enterprise priorities, and amplify the function’s impact across regions and disciplines. You will design and deliver signature global engagement platforms, build future-ready capabilities, and drive a cohesive digital narrative that reinforces our reputation as a world-class Corporate Affairs organization and industry leader.

 

Job Description

Job Responsibilities

• Architect and implement a Corporate Affairs capability-building academy that equips teams with the skills, mindset, and tools required to lead in a rapidly evolving stakeholder environment. Manage 1 for execution.

• Design and lead a communications and engagement strategy that connects and inspires the Corporate Affairs organization globally, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities, clarity of purpose, and a sense of shared culture and impact. Manage 1 for execution.

• Lead the vision, design, and execution of flagship global engagement platforms and campaigns that unite leaders and teams around enterprise priorities, strengthen the leadership pipeline, and deepen connection to our shared purpose. Manage 1 for execution.

• Shape and govern the Corporate Affairs function’s digital strategy and storytelling across internal and external channels, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities and reinforcing the company’s position as an industry leader.

• Oversee the design and delivery of the Corporate Affairs Summer Internship Program — including onboarding, programming, and communications — to create an inspiring, high-touch experience that strengthens our early-career pipeline and reinforces the function’s reputation as a best-in-class career destination.

• Convene and facilitate leadership briefings on priority topics, enabling alignment and coordination across the global Corporate Affairs network.

• Support the Corporate Affairs Leadership Team’s strategic operating needs.

• Lead and support special projects that promote growth and development.

Benefits & Rewards

The salary for this position is expected to range between $194,600 and $361,4000 per year. The final salary offered is determined based on factors like, but not limited to, relevant skills and experience, and upon joining Novartis will be reviewed periodically. Novartis may change the published salary range based on company and market factors. Your compensation will include a performance-based cash incentive and, depending on the level of the role, eligibility to be considered for annual equity awards. US-based eligible employees will receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes health, life and disability benefits, a 401(k) with company contribution and match, and a variety of other benefits. In addition, employees are eligible for a generous time off package including vacation, personal days, holidays and other leaves.

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