Job Description Summary
LI-Hybrid

Location: Hyderabad, India

About The Role:
Enterprise Competitive Intelligence (ECI) is responsible for gathering, assessing, organizing, and delivering timely, relevant, high-quality competitive intelligence that supports Novartis pipeline, portfolio, and strategic decision-making. As ECI moves from a service-provider model toward a strategic partnership model, the function needs scalable data systems, governed repositories, and AI-enabled workflows that make validated CI accessible, reusable, and practical across business units.

In this role you will shape and govern the ECI data systems and AI agenda: building and leading the CI knowledge layer, ensuring CI data is available, searchable, API-ready and usable by AI, and enabling repeatable AI-assisted workflows that improve speed, quality, consistency and enterprise leverage. The role will act as the bridge between ECI, business-unit insights teams, Data Digital & IT (DDIT), enterprise knowledge management teams (e.g. NKC),



and relevant external partners to deliver pragmatic solutions while preparing ECI for future AI-enabled ways of working.

Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Vision and Roadmap
Drive the ECI Data Systems and AI vision, roadmap and delivery plan, aligned to ECI priorities, Novartis business-unit needs and enterprise technology direction.
Translate ECI’s ambition for a single, trusted CI knowledge layer into sequenced initiatives, milestones, governance forums and investment decisions.
Maintain a balanced build/buy/partner perspective, evaluating whether capabilities should be built internally, sourced from vendors, or co-developed with partners.
Represent Data Systems and AI on the ECI Leadership Team and support ECI Steering Committee discussions on AI, repositories, data governance, interoperability, prioritization and funding.
CI Repository and Knowledge Layer
Lead the design and implementation of the ECI repository / knowledge layer, consolidatin

📌 Associate Director, Data Systems (Hyderabad)
🏢 Novartis
📍 Hyderabad