Novartis provides healthcare solutions that improve and extend people’s lives. We use science-based innovation to address some of society’s most challenging healthcare issues. We discover and develop breakthrough treatments and find new ways to deliver them to as many people as possible. Our company is focused on industry-leading divisions with innovatio...
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About the role
The Novartis Learnership Programme is open to the unemployed youth of South Africa. These learnership opportunities means that the succesfull candidates will complete the Business Administration qualification (NQF 4. ID: 61595) and do workplace experience with the workplace company whilst at the same time complete the portfolio of evidence as prescribed by the learnership qualification.
The Medical Affairs Business Administration Learnership aims to provide experience and exposure to our Medical business. The learner will provide support to the different divisions with day-to-day activities and through the exposure gain an overview of, insight into, exposure to and experience in the overarching function of the Medical Department.
- Strong scientific acumen, analytical skills, and attention to detail.
- Must be able to adapt, organize, prioritize, and work effectively in a matrix-environment as part of a multifunctional brand team as well as in a constantly changing environment.
- Knowledge of all aspects of the drug development life- cycle an advantage.
- An understanding of internal/external ethical guidelines relevant to the pharmaceutical industry an advantage.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, negotiation and presentation skills.
- Strong personal integrity, teamwork abilities, and customer focus are necessary.
- Project management skills and high drive to execute scientific activities timeously to achieve Medical Affairs objectives.
Role Requirements
Education:
- Minimum of a bachelor's degree in Life Sciences such as Pharmacist, Physiotherapist, Occupational Therapist
- MSc desirable.
NB: In order to be considered for the learnership:
- No prior work experience is mandatory
- Your application must be supported by a motivational letter and your academic transcripts
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About the role
Gain indepth understanding of marketing strategies. The why, how and implementation thereof. These learnership opportunities means that the succesfull candidates will complete the Business Administration qualification (NQF 4. ID: 61595) and do workplace experience with the workplace company whilst at the same time complete the portfolio of evidence as prescribed by the learnership qualification.
Accountabilities:
- Design and build marketing plans.
- Monitor progress versus plan and adjust as needed.
- Support Compliance standards are kept within the division.
- Collaboration – impact to team.
- Launch excellence: Successful brand launch and uptake of promoted brands.
- Access: State/provincial impact: building PC foundations
- Marketing messages per customer & segment group.
- Brand team meetings, public sector meetings, sales teams meetings, CE support for digital strategies & supply chain.
Key Performance Indicators:
- Complete learnership file.
- Support in creating patient penetration (patient reach) – impact to patients.
- Digital platforms – leverage, execute and manage.
- Ensure compliance in all activities related to the role – even recons, events etc.
- Impact in multistakeholder impact: support Brand managers in delivering value for patients and business alike.
Role Requirements
Education:
- B.A or B.Comm or related Marketing degree
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Major Accountabilities
- Distrbution of marketing samples (where applicable)
- Behave ethically, comply with regulatory requirements and adhere to Novartis values and behaviours.
- Assist in ensuriing all required documents are in order for events and sponsorships.
- Assist in using the Besure system and uploading marketing events for approvals.
- Be comfortable with using the various digital tools that are available, as well as sup-porting the team in rolling out selected digital initiatives (applications, webcasts etc.) under close supervision
- Perform literature searches on designated topics and assist with preparation of documents.
- Shadow and assist Customer Engagement Consultants in daily work requirements.
- Assist with any other initiatives that may arise from time to time
Role Requirements
Competencies
- Scientific acumen, analytical skills, and attention to detail.
- Must be able to adapt, organize, prioritize, and work effectively in a matrix-environment as part of a
- An understanding of internal/external ethical guidelines relevant to the pharmaceutical industry an advantage.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, negotiation and presentation skills.
- Strong personal integrity, teamwork abilities, and customer focus are necessary.
- Project management skills and high drive to execute scientific activities timeously
Education & Qualification:
- BSC University degree that includes Anatomy, physiology or Pharmacology is desirable.
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About the role
The Novartis Learnership Programme is open to the unemployed youth of South Africa. These learnership opportunities means that the succesfull candidates will complete the Business Administration qualification and do workplace experience with the workplace company whilst at the same time complete the portfolio of evidence as prescribed by the learnership qualification.
The Legal Business Administration Learnership aims to provide experience and exposure to our Legal business. To provide support to the Legal with support across the various areas:
Administrative support including the following:
- filing of documents, responding to admin related queries, processing invoices, keeping track of invoices, submitting invoice report tracker (quarterly), and taking minutes in meetings.
Company Governance
- Company governance (i.e. company secretariat) is another part of the Legal function, we would like to expose the learner to this part of the function. The leaner will assist with attending to Company governance related responsibilities as and when required, they would also liaise with our external service provider and the relevant cross-functional teams to facilitate the filing and submission of company documents.
Contract Support
- The learner will support the Legal function with reviewing approved contract templates to ensure that there is no deviation from the approved templates. The learner will accordingly liaise with the Procurement function and contract owners as required. The learner will be exposed to the use of the Ariba systems which is a Procurement contract management system.
Maintaining the Legal SharePoint
- The Legal function has a Legal SharePoint that houses all contract templates and other legal documents. The SharePoint needs to be kept up-to-date to ensure that the most recent versions of contracts and documents are used by the business. The learner will support with maintaining this site, i.e. uploading new material and removing old material and assisting with responding to queries related to site and the documents.
Legal Digital Tools
- Managing Novartis legal digital tools, assisting Novartis associates with queries related to the digital tools, and providing innovating solutions to improve Digital tools.
Legal Research
- Conducting research on legal topics that are pertinent to the business and keeping up-to-date with legal developments.
Training
- Assisting the team with preparing training material and providing training as necessary to the business.
Role Requirements
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Job Purpose
To provide support to the RA department to ensure timely submissions and approvals of amendments in line with the submission plan and to meet regulatory objectives.
These learnership opportunities means that the succesfull candidates will complete the Business Administration qualification (NQF 4. ID: 61595) and do workplace experience with the workplace company whilst at the same time complete the portfolio of evidence as prescribed by the learnership qualification.
Major Activities
- Understanding the Medicine Act and Pharmacy Act and the related Regulations and guidelines and how these influence the Regulatory Environment.
- Understanding the elements of the Marketing Code.
- Preparation and submissions of regulatory applications to SAHPRA.
- Proof reading of artwork components.
- Supporting compliance activities within the RA team
- Being an active member of the RA team, participating in all team activities, meetings and
- gathering.
- Support the RA team to meet its overall objectives.
Key Performance Indicators
- Efficient support has been provided to the RA department for compliance activities.
- All applications are submitted in line with the submission plan and meets all the requirements as specified by SAHPRA.
- Adherence to cGMP and SOPs.
- Training conducted according to program.
- Compliance with the relevant Act, Regulations, and guidelines.
- Compliance with all aspects of the Code of Conduct and Novartis Policies and Procedures.
- Living the Novartis values and behaviours.
Role Requirements
Education (minimum/desirable):
- Matric (grade 12) and Science degree.
- Honours or Master’s degree with exposure to Regulatory Sciences or experience in Regulatory Affairs will be an advantage.
Experience:
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Highly organized.
- Self-starter
- Ability to manage multiple projects and consistently meet deadlines.
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Job Purpose
To support the Novartis South Africa finance team in their activities with a focus on business planning and analysis.
These learnership opportunities means that the succesfull candidates will complete the Business Administration qualification (NQF 4. ID: 61595) and do workplace experience with the workplace company whilst at the same time complete the portfolio of evidence as prescribed by the learnership qualification.
Major Accountabilities
- Support CFO and Senior BPA (Business planning analyst) in Budget and Financial planning activities including periodical revisions.
- Perform month/year end closing & reporting tasks in collaboration with senior BPA and FRA (Financial reporting and accounting) team.
- Build standard reports to support business performance analysis.
- Master data management
- Ad-hoc requests from the business
- Perform financial internal controls.
- Support other Finance functions when necessary
Key Performance Indicators
- Reliability, timeliness, and sense of urgency
- Internal customer satisfaction with quality, appropriateness, and timeliness of assigned tasks
- Successful implementation and adoption of digital tools to support Digital finance transformation.
Role Requirements
Education:
- Bachelor’s or 4-year university degree required preferably in Finance or related field.
- Chartered Accountant (Preferred)
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