Global AS&T Lead

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Location: Hyderabad, India

Relocation Support: This role is based in Hyderabad, India. Novartis is unable to offer relocation support: please only apply if accessible.

Imagine shaping how analytical laboratories operate across a global network and turning scientific excellence into meaningful transformation. As Global AS&T Lead, you will bring together analytical expertise, strategic thinking and change leadership to advance laboratory technologies, harmonize ways of working, and accelerate automation, digitalization and artificial intelligence-enabled solutions.

Working across Quality, Manufacturing, Development, Regulatory, Digital and Engineering, you will influence high-impact decisions and help build scalable, future-ready laboratory capabilities that strengthen operations and ultimately support patients worldwide.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Shape the global RLT laboratory transformation roadmap, translating strategic priorities into measurable, scalable initiatives.
• Guide site Quality Control and Analytical Science and Technology teams on complex scientific, technical, and compliance decisions.
• Establish cross-site governance, technical standards and portfolio priorities for analytical sciences and laboratory technologies.
• Drive harmonization of analytical methods, laboratory processes, equipment strategies and capabilities across the global network.
• Lead automation, digitalization and artificial intelligence-enabled laboratory transformation to deliver scientific and operational value.
• Represent Analytical Science and Technology in major technology transfers, laboratory expansions and global technology deployments.
• Partner across Quality, Manufacturing, Development, Regulatory, Digital and Engineering to enable integrated, network-wide solutions.
• Strengthen the global Analytical Science and Technology community through coaching, knowledge sharing and capability building.

Essential Requirements:

• Degree in Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmacy, Biochemistry or a related scientific discipline.
• Significant experience in analytical sciences, quality control, analytical development or technical operations within a regulated pharmaceutical environment.
• Strong knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practice, pharmaceutical quality systems, data integrity, validation and regulatory expectations.
• Deep expertise in chromatographic techniques, analytical troubleshooting, method lifecycle management, validation, transfer and laboratory investigations.
• Strong strategic thinking and decision-making skills, with the ability to address complex scientific and network-level challenges.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, fluent English, and willingness to travel internationally approximately 25% of the time.

Desirable Requirements:

• Experience with radiopharmaceuticals and Radioligand Therapy.

Why Novartis: Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us! Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

You’ll receive: You can find everything you need to know about our benefits and rewards in the Novartis Life Handbook. https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards

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