Novartis Posted June 23, 2026

Medical Excellence Manager

Vilvoorde, Belgium Regular
Marketing Manager

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About this opportunity

-Explore, develop, implement and evaluate Digital innovation solutions that address customer needs. Co-create with key stakeholders to build partnerships and collaborations -Leads the delivery of multiple projects across a variety of creative and marketing channels, including print and digital media. Develop and coordinate project plans across the design, development and production stages of a project to support the successful delivery within set KPI's. -Works in collaboration with brand teams, technical teams and all functions to maximize value. -Provides consultancy, advice and assistance on strategy for commercialization of products, and influence marketing/Marketing Sales Operation team on decision making on Sales Force resource allocation in most optimal ways, through delivery of proven analytics based projects. -Provide analytics support to Novartis internal customers.Please know that the new location of our Novartis office is in Diegem, Belgium.

Major accountabilities:  Planning and management, gather requirements to develop detailed Project plans and Project estimations to task level.Proactively assist the Business to identify upcoming conflicts and resource gaps.Serve as interface with the global and local Brand teams on Project Planning and delivery management.Leads and delivers projects for Regional and global teams, ensuring adherence to timelines and quality objectives.Ensures delivery of efficient and high-quality deliverables.Manages an efficient and high-quality team that promotes synergy and best practice sharing among resources, drives collaboration with Country Organizations in managing high standards of communication and delivering best in class services.Provide guidance on training requirements in relation to Commercial processes -Takes initiative to drive standardization of reports across brands.Reporting of technical complaints / adverse events / special case scenarios related to Novartis products within 24 hours of receipt.Distribution of marketing samples (where applicable)Ability to write clean and efficient code in Python, R, SQL, with expertise with cloud platforms and data platforms (experience with AWS, Snowflake is a plus)Ability to advise on and apply state-of-the-art analytics, machine learning to derive business insights and solve complex problemsGood problem solving skills with ability to visualize and present results clearly to the businessAbility to thrive in a multidisciplinary team and agile working environment (experience with Jira is a plus)Support Medical team with relevant data dashboards (Power BI) and maintain CRM/SalesForce for Medical RepsStrong collaboration with CRM Manager and Commercial Excellence ManagerKey performance indicators: Quality and accuracy of forecast assumptionsGood customer satisfaction scoresAbility to manage multiple stakeholders / projectsMinimum Requirements:  Work Experience: Cross Cultural ExperienceProject ManagementOperations Management and ExecutionSkills: AgilityAnalytical ThinkingBrand AwarenessBusiness AnalyticsCross-Functional CollaborationDigital MarketingMarketing StrategyMedia CampaignsSalesAbility to write clean and efficient code in Python, R, SQL, with expertise with cloud platforms and data platforms (experience with AWS, Snowflake is a plus)Stakeholder EngagementStakeholder ManagementStrategic MarketingWaterfall ModelProject ManagementProject PlanningTools knowledge: Power BI, CRM/ SalesForceLanguages:English and preferably Dutch and/or French.

Job details

Seniority
Manager
Function
Marketing
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Vilvoorde, Belgium
Employment type
Regular

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Marketing role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 265 comparable Manager Marketing roles across 60 biopharma companies.

265Comparable roles tracked
215Currently active
60Companies hiring similar roles
42Countries represented

Salary context

63 of 265 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.

This roleSubject Not listed on this posting
Lowest disclosed · Senior Manager, NA Commercial Insights · Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. $95,000/yr – $193,000/yr
Highest disclosed · Associate Director, Marketing Program Governance · Novartis $160,300/yr – $297,700/yr
Peer group range $144,000 – $229,000 (median $183,250)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 265 comparable roles

United States111
China29
Japan19
India15
Taiwan9
Russia7

+ 36 more countries

Seniority mix

265 of 265 peers have a known seniority level

Manager177
Associate Director79
Associate9

Therapeutic area mix

75 of 265 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Oncology26
Cardiovascular / CVRM9
Vaccines & Infectious Disease9
Neuroscience8
Rare Disease6
Respiratory6
Dermatology & Aesthetics4
Immunology4
Gastroenterology2
Ophthalmology1

Similar opportunities

The closest matches from our peer group, ranked by how similar they are, not how well you'd qualify for them -- treat this as market context, not a guaranteed shortlist; a weak match is labeled as one below.

60%similar
Gilead Sciences Belgium BV Brussels, Belgium Manager
Same function Same seniority Same country
60%similar
Novartis Vilvoorde, Belgium Manager
Same function Same seniority Same country
60%similar
Novartis Brussels, Belgium Manager
Same function Same seniority Same country
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45%similar
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45%similar
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Same function Same seniority

How we calculate "similar"

No black box, no LLM guesswork: a deterministic score built from four normalized attributes. Here's this role's own peer group at different match levels, so you can see the mechanism, not just the result.

Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.

60%
Associate Case Manager
Gilead Sciences Belgium BV · Brussels, Belgium · Manager
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
50%
Associate Marketing
Amgen N.V. · Diegem, Belgium · Associate
Function Therapeutic area Adjacent seniority Country
45%
Sr Manager, Marketing
Gilead Sciences Shanghai Pharmaceutical Technology Co., Ltd. · Shanghai, China · Manager
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
45%
Senior Local Marketing Manager
Gilead Sciences Shanghai Pharmaceutical Technology Co., Ltd. · Chengdu, China · Manager
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
Unmatched or unknown dimensions score exactly the same: 0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.