Novartis

Job Description Summary #LI-Hybrid This role is based in Israel. Novartis is unable to offer relocation support for this role: please only apply if this location is accessible for you. The Medical Scientific Liaison (MSL) acts as a scientific ambassador, enabling high-quality, peer-to-peer scientific exchange with Healthcare Professionals (HCPs) and Medical Experts (MEs), within the field of Immunology. The role exists to strengthen Novartis’ scientific presence, support evidence-based decision making, and inform medical strategy through high-quality insight generation. MSLs provide deep therapeutic area and product understanding, translate emerging science into meaningful dialogue, and support internal teams with clinical data interpretation. MSL is field-based role and needs to operate primarily in the field, the MSL bridges scientific needs from clinical practice with internal strategy to improve patient outcomes and reinforce Novartis’ reputation for scientific excellence. Job Description Key responsibilities • Execute Medical Expert engagement plans aligned with Therapeutic Area strategic priorities and ensure appropriate identification, mapping, and involvement of MEs and key accounts where medical needs, scientific questions, or evidence gaps are identified. • Conduct unbiased, evidence-based, peer-to-peer scientific exchange with HCPs and MEs, sharing and contextualizing up-to-date medical information, disease area knowledge, clinical data, and publications. • Support ME/HCP education activities, including hospital staff meetings, regional scientific events, symposia, and internal or external educational initiatives. • Systematically collect, synthesize, and communicate actionable external insights from clinical practice, scientific discussions, and competitive activities to inform local and regional medical strategy. • Contribute scientific insights to country medical plans and disease area strategies while maintaining strong understanding of the therapeutic landscape, emerging data, and competitor environment. • Support evidence generation and clinical research by identifying and qualifying potential study sites and facilitating communication between sites and internal teams to optimize study execution. • Build and maintain strong partnerships with Medical Experts, scientific societies, academic institutions, and other stakeholders to strengthen scientific leadership and collaboration in the Therapeutic Area. • Act as a credible scientific resource for internal partners by providing clinical context, data interpretation, training, and cross-functional scientific support. • Shape joint value creation initiatives, evidence-based collaborations, and multistakeholder partnerships that strengthen the medical ecosystem and Novartis’ scientific reputation. • Ensure all engagements, materials, activities, CRM documentation, reporting, and activity tracking meet ERC, regulatory, medical governance, and company guidance requirements. Requirements • Advanced scientific degree (MD, PharmD, DVM, DMD, PhD in Life Sciences) or equivalent is mandatory; • Proficient Hebrew and English, both written and spoken • Strong communication & interpersonal skills • Strong planning, prioritization, and territory management capabilities, with proven ability to navigate complexity • Agile, resilience, a growth mindset • Ability to partner effectively in a matrix environment, influence without authority, and build credible, collaborative relationships across internal and external stakeholders. • Strong scientific and clinical data interpretation capabilities, with the ability to effectively present and communicate complex scientific evidence and emerging medical insights across diverse audiences. • Ability to build credible, trusted relationships with healthcare professionals About Novartis Israel: Novartis is a leading pharmaceutical company renowned for its innovation. In Israel, we pioneered the introduction of advanced cell and gene therapies. Our commitment to research and development spans a wide range of therapeutic areas, including oncology, chronic conditions, and rare diseases. We take pride in being a proactive partner, contributing to the advancement of healthcare solutions. As a global pharmaceutical leader headquartered in Switzerland, Novartis is among the largest pharmaceutical companies in Israel. Our mission is to lead in delivering innovative medicines to patients across the country. We are dedicated to fostering a dynamic work environment that promotes personal development and professional growth. Commitment To Diversity & Inclusion: We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve. Skills Desired Biostatistics, Clinical Research, Clinical Study Reports, Curious Mindset, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Software, Disease Management, Drug Development, Epidemiology, IT Tools, Medical Information, Medical Research, Medical Writing, Product Placement

Salary Range: €57,900.00 - €107,500.00 Job Description Summary Location: Barcelona, Spain; Tel Aviv, Israel #LI-Hybrid Internal job title: Assoc. Dir. DDIT ISC Enterprise Security Architecture – Data Security The Enterprise Security Architecture team is looking for a deeply technical security architect who enjoys solving hard engineering problems, influencing enterprise-scale technology decisions, and staying close to implementation. Over the next several years, your primary mission will be to lead our Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) readiness program and modernize Data Loss Prevention (DLP) capabilities across the enterprise. This is not a governance-only role. We are looking for a hands-on expert who enjoys understanding how technologies work, validating vendor claims, building proof-of-concepts, analyzing architectures, and driving practical outcomes. You will work across infrastructure, cloud, networking, identity, workplace technologies, and applications to help prepare the organization for one of the largest cryptographic transformations in decades while simultaneously improving the effectiveness, precision, and operational efficiency of our data protection capabilities. Job Description Key responsibilities: • Develop and enforce security policies and procedures related Data Security across Novartis businesses to meet business and regulatory requirements • Design security measures and overall Data Security architecture for the IT landscape in line with the ISC policy framework • Technical lead for PQC readiness program • Support and continually review technology standards and controls related to Data Security and recommend information technology strategies, policies, and procedures • Identify design problems within the Data Security domain • Support projects to evolve Data Security solutions from evaluation to implementation and assist the delivery of the operational model • Support the auditing of security policies and procedures • Management communication with key stakeholders and provide reports to management • Provide ongoing support to maintain the Data Security domain’s effectiveness and efficiency by defining, delivering, and supporting strategic plans for implementing information technologies • Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders and vendors • Support the direction of technological research by learning the organizational goals, strategies and business drivers • Develop and maintain architecture diagrams and documentation related to Data Security processes and procedures • Break down the strategic objectives to requirements on the solution portfolio and target architecture • Key contributor on products, services and/or infrastructure strategies that require complex or advanced conceptualization • Research and evaluate new Data Security technologies and make strategic security technology choices, directly supervising the quality of designs and implementation inside and between components • Work with improvements, by participation in the development, of the architectural principles, processes, and standards Essential Requirements: • University working and thinking level, degree in business/technical area or comparable education/experience • 15+ years of working experience in Security domain; minimum 5 years in architecture capacity; • 5+ years of experience of working in or providing IT services to a large enterprise like Novartis. • Exceptional understanding security domains like Digital Workspace, Data Protection, AI Security as well as good knowledge of Network Security, Identity and Access Management, SIEM, Vulnerability Management • Strong understanding of core cryptography concepts (encryption, key exchange, hashing, digital signatures): • Solid PKI expertise, including certificate lifecycle management, trust models, and enterprise PKI architectures. • Clear understanding of Post‑Quantum Cryptography (PQC) concepts, quantum risks to current algorithms, and crypto‑agility principles. • Ability to assess quantum‑vulnerable cryptographic usage and data protection controls. • Experience designing data encryption architectures for data at rest and in transit. • Knowledge of key management and HSM/KMS solutions. • Familiarity with cryptographic standards and regulatory requirements (e.g., NIST). • Exceptional understanding and knowledge of general IT infrastructure technology, systems and management processes, and experience of sourcing complex IT services, working closely with vendors and making full use of their capabilities • Good knowledge of IT Project Management: Proven experience to initiate and manage projects that will affect other divisions, departments and functions, as well as the corporate environment. • Experience with compliance requirements (e.g. SOX, GxQ / CSV, E-compliance, Records Management, Privacy), and knowledge of (information) risk management related standards or frameworks such as COSO, ISO 2700x, CobiT, ISO 24762, BS 25999, NIST, ISF Standard of Good Practice and ITIL • Strong leadership experience, with excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills at all levels of the organisation and experience in reporting to and communicating with senior level management (with and without IT background, with and without in-depth risk management background) on information risk topics; interpersonal and collaborative skills, as well as good mediation and facilitation skills Desirable • Good understanding and experience with Enterprise Architecture Frameworks like TOGAF will be an added advantage. Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve. 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 Join our Novartis Network: If this role is not suitable to your experience or career goals but you wish to stay connected to learn more about Novartis and our career opportunities, join the Novartis Network here: https://talentnetwork.novartis.com/network Accessibility and accommodation: Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to all individuals. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to receive more detailed information about the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message. Skills Desired Business Architecture, Business Value Creation, Change Management, Consulting, Decision Making, Digital Capabilities, Effective use of Technology (Inactive), Enterprise Architecture (EA), Influencing Skills, IT Governance, Organization Awareness (Inactive), Solution Architecture, Stakeholder Management

Job Description Summary Location: Tel-Aviv, Israel #LI-Hybrid 3 days/week in office Internal job title: Assoc. Dir. DDIT ISC Security Research About the role: The Defensive Cyber Security Researcher will be part of a new Think Tank group of security researchers that will challenge Novartis information security defenses, application security and data protection. The Defensive Cyber Security Researcher will be responsible for participating in threat actor based investigations, creating new detection methodology and providing expert support to incident response and monitoring functions. The focus of the Defensive Cyber Security Researcher is to detect, disrupt and eradicate threat actors from enterprise networks, including emerging AI-driven and AI-assisted threats. To execute this mission, the Defensive Cyber Security Researcher will use data analysis, threat intelligence, and cutting-edge security technologies — with a growing emphasis on understanding how AI can be weaponized against the organization and how it can be leveraged defensively. The Defensive Cyber Security Researcher will identify and analyze patterns and changes in tactics, techniques and procedures used by attackers to attack Novartis IT infrastructure and management staff. The analysis will result in indicators of compromise, accurate understanding of the risk to Novartis IT infrastructure and prioritization of remediation efforts. Job Description Key Responsibilities: • Hunt through huge number of signals to identify new emerging threats, dissect them and extract meaningful insights and indicators of compromise. • Demonstrate adversary tactics to recognize and analyze malicious activity (techniques, tools and processes) based on a combination of behavioral activity and signature based analysis. • Participate in "hunting missions" using threat intelligence, analysis of anomalous log data and results of brainstorming sessions to detect and eradicate threat actors on the Novartis network. • Provide expert analytic investigative support of large scale and complex security incidents. • Perform analysis of security incidents for further enhancement of alert catalog; perform in-depth static and dynamic malware reverse engineering; preform ad hoc memory and disk forensics. • Produce detailed technical reports in support of malware / other hunting investigations. • Review alerts generated by detection infrastructure for effectiveness and recommend improvements. • In collaboration with the Security Operations Center: Develop dashboards and reports to identify potential threats, suspicious/anomalous activity, malware, etc. • Research and assess AI-specific security risks to the organization, including adversarial use of AI models, prompt injection attacks, data poisoning, shadow AI adoption, and LLM-assisted threat actor operations; translate findings into actionable defensive guidance and detection rules. • Collaborate with Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) teams to operationalize intelligence feeds, enrich hunting missions with external and internal threat data, and contribute research outputs (IOCs, TTPs, adversary profiles) back into intelligence pipelines. Essential Requirements: • 5+ years of experience in Incident Response / CERT team or 5+ years of experience with malware investigations. • Critical understanding of the cyber attacker kills chain elements, with particular emphasis on attack objectives. • High familiarity and experience with Active Directory (AD) and Entra ID / Azure AD security — including AD attack paths (Kerberoasting, pass-the-hash, DCSync, Golden/Silver Ticket), BloodHound-based graph analysis, AD tiering models, and Conditional Access Policies; ability to identify misconfigurations that lead to privilege escalation and lateral movement. • Solid understanding of AI security risks and their organizational impact, including adversarial machine learning, prompt injection, data poisoning, shadow AI risks, and the use of generative AI tools by threat actors; ability to advise the organization on AI-related threat exposure and contribute to AI governance from a security perspective. • Proven ability to work effectively with Security Operations Center (SOC) teams: including joint detection engineering, alert tuning, escalation workflows, and acting as a subject matter expert during high-severity incident response; experience bridging the gap between research depth and SOC operational tempo. • Experience working with Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) teams: consuming and operationalizing intelligence products, contributing research outputs as structured intelligence (IOCs, TTPs, adversary profiles), and participating in joint threat briefings and intelligence-driven hunting operations. • Good familiarity with Red Teaming tools and operations, understanding of Wireshark, Cobalt Strike and more • Advanced programming skills with scripting languages such as Python/Perl/Ruby. • Familiarity with the current nation-state (“APT”) threat landscape and the various actors and groups. • Very strong team and interpersonal skills along with the ability to work independently and achieve individual goals, with effective oral and written communication skills. Desirable requirements: • Relevant Technical Security Certifications (GIAC, EC-Council, Offensive Security, etc.) 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 Join our Novartis Network: If this role is not suitable to your experience or career goals but you wish to stay connected to learn more about Novartis and our career opportunities, join the Novartis Network here: https://talentnetwork.novartis.com/network Accessibility and accommodation: Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to all individuals. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to receive more detailed information about the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message. Skills Desired Communication Skills, Cyber-Security Regulation, Cyber Threat Hunting, Cyber Threat Intelligence (Cti), Cyber Threat Management, Cyber Vulnerabilities, Decision Making Skills, Digital Capabilities, Effective use of Technology, Influencing Skills, Information Security Risk Management