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 helpful 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,

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