Vendor Alliance Lead Associate Director - Cardiac Safety, Respiratory Diagnostics
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Permanent
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London, United Kingdom
Job Description
Responsibilities 
- Lead end-to-end vendor oversight, governance and performance across cardiac and respiratory diagnostic services
- Act as the senior escalation point for vendor issues, driving structured issue resolution and root-cause analysis
- Proactively identify and manage operational, quality and compliance risks
- Oversee vendor qualification and re-qualification in partnership with Quality and Procurement
- Represent Novartis in key vendor discussions, governance forums and business reviews
- Indirectly oversee CRO-based Vendor Start-Up Managers (approx. 3 indirect reports)
- Support audits and Health Authority inspections, ensuring inspection-ready documentation
- Significant experience working in a GxP-regulated environment
- Proven experience in vendor and CRO management within clinical development
- Strong programme management capability, managing multiple vendors and studies concurrently
- Hands-on experience in the cardiac and respiratory diagnostic space, including a deep understanding of vendor capabilities and market landscape
- Demonstrated ability to independently engage, challenge and lead senior vendor stakeholders
- Experience supporting inspections, audits and regulatory interactions
- Advanced degree in Life Sciences, Medicine, Pharmacy, Biomedical Sciences or related discipline, or equivalent experience
- vendor management
- CRO management
- programme management
- quality risk management
- compliance risk management
- root cause analysis
- audit support
- regulatory interactions
- inspection readiness
- cardiac diagnostics
- leadership
- problem-solving
- communication
- stakeholder engagement
- independent decision-making
- collaboration
- strategic thinking
- issue resolution
- negotiation
- organizational skills