• Define and execute portfolio strategies to drive sustainable growth, market share expansion, and competitive differentiation. • Develop and execute multi‑year category strategies that optimize cost, quality, service, and risk. • Lead, mentor, and develop a high‑performing team of Portfolio Managers and Analysts. • Build and manage preferred supplier programs, including negotiation of pricing, service levels, and contract terms. • Provide strategic direction for portfolio expansion through new supplier and product introductions supplier partnerships, line extensions, and entry into new and adjacent markets. • Lead end-to-end portfolio lifecycle governance, including supplier onboarding, product rationalization, lifecycle optimization, pricing strategy, mix management and portfolio health management. • Establish and oversee financial and operational performance metrics, proactively identifying risks and opportunities to improve revenue, margin, inventory efficiency, and return on invested capital. • Translate market intelligence, customer insights, and emerging technology trends into clear portfolio priorities and actionable investment decisions. • Partner cross functionally with Commercial, Marketing, Operations, Regulatory, E-commerce and Supply Chain leaders to align portfolio strategy with enterprise objectives and execution plans. • Build and strengthen strategic supplier relationships to enhance innovation, cost competitiveness, supply continuity, and long-term value creation. • Lead portfolio profitability strategy across product groups, including margin improvement initiatives, cost structure optimization, and value based pricing approaches. • Support client‑facing activities such as business reviews, proposals, and solution design. • Collaborate and partner with VWR Brand portfolio team to ensure completeness and competitiveness of the line. • Assess competitive and supplier innovation pipelines to anticipate customer needs and inform future portfolio direction. • Direct supplier consolidation and portfolio optimization initiatives, ensuring disciplined change management and clear internal and external communication, and desired financial outcomes. • Represent the portfolio with senior leadership through executive level presentations on market dynamics, competitive positioning, customer segmentation, and strategic recommendations. • Maintain external market perspective through industry engagement, including participation in relevant trade shows and forums.

• Oversee activities of the provider contracting, network development and/or provider relations functions and aid in formulating and administering organizational policies and procedures • Oversee provider contracting activities to ensure efficiency and maintain compliance with the business unit’s policies and standards, government laws and regulations • Implement development activities for the recruitment and contracting of provider networks in new and prospective markets, and existing market expansions • Support new business launch in diverse markets while considering individual market circumstances, provider community, budgeting constraints and available resources • Perform complex financial analyses to identify medical cost improvement opportunities, develop strategies to reach financial goals, and execute contracting strategies to meet goals and objectives • Oversee contracting and network development staff and external consultants in the development of provider networks for new and expansion markets • Monitor performance, develop, and implement business solutions to address process and quality gaps, and communicate network strategy and planning • Ability to travel

• Lead the design and execution of patient journey analytics that identify key moments of intervention, access barriers, treatment transitions, adherence challenges, persistence opportunities, and unmet needs across priority therapeutic areas. • Integrate and analyze longitudinal healthcare data sources, including claims, prescription, specialty pharmacy, EHR, lab, real-world data, clinical trial operations data, market access data, and third-party syndicated datasets. • Develop predictive models and machine learning approaches that support patient identification, biomarker status, provider opportunity assessment, treatment progression, adherence risk, CT acceleration, and engagement prioritization. • Translate model outputs and patient journey findings into clear recommendations, decision frameworks, dashboards, and executive-ready narratives for Commercial, Medical Affairs, and Clinical Operations stakeholders. • Identify practical AI and advanced analytics use cases, including generative AI, natural language interfaces, intelligent automation, and decision intelligence, that improve insight generation and operational effectiveness. • Serve as a subject matter expert for patient journey insights and predictive modeling, helping business, medical, and clinical stakeholders translate strategic questions into analytical approaches, data requirements, and measurable outputs. • Partner with Commercial, Medical Affairs, Clinical Operations, Market Access, Medical Excellence, Clinical Development, Data Engineering, IT, Legal, Privacy, and Compliance teams to ensure analytics solutions are relevant, accurate, scalable, and appropriate for a regulated life sciences environment. • Communicate complex analytical findings in clear, compelling ways through presentations, dashboards, data stories, and decision-support materials for senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams. • Champion responsible AI and model governance practices by promoting transparency, explainability, bias awareness, human oversight, fit-for-purpose validation, and appropriate documentation for AI-enabled decision support. • Lead cross-functional analytics workstreams from problem framing and data assessment through modeling, insight generation, stakeholder review, and implementation support. • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to analysts, data scientists, and external partners to improve analytical rigor, reproducibility, and business relevance. • Establish practical standards, reusable frameworks, and best practices for patient journey analytics, predictive modeling, model monitoring, and insight delivery. • Promote adoption of analytics by increasing stakeholder confidence, building analytics literacy, and embedding insights into commercial planning, medical strategy, evidence generation, and clinical operations execution. • Continuously identify opportunities to modernize tools, data assets, workflows, and AI-enabled processes that improve the speed, quality, and scalability of analytics delivery.

• Interact with large, complex accounts to support patient access within their aligned therapeutic area product(s) • Proactively provide face-to-face education on programs to providers and staff in order to support integration of those products into office processes and workflows • Work with key members of therapeutic area offices (e.g., executives, providers, administrators, billing and coding staff, claims departments, revenue cycle managers) in order to appropriately support patient access to products • Ability to analyze problems and offer solutions • Understand specifics and support questions associated with patient reimbursement and provide support on reimbursement issues with third party payers at the provider-level • Supports pull through on local coverage decisions to enable meaningful patient access within the system • Proactively communicate policy changes or issues that could potentially affect other departments • Maintain expertise in regional and local access landscape, anticipating changes in the healthcare landscape, and act as their aligned therapeutic area product(s) reimbursement expert (as needed) • Interface with Patient Support Center (hub) and Access & Reimbursement Managers on important matters related to patient case management, including tracking cases, issue resolution, reimbursement support, and appropriate office staff education • Collaborate with aligned cross-functional associates within NPC to share insights on customer needs and barriers for their aligned therapeutic area product(s) related to access and reimbursement • Responsible for educating HCPs using approved materials regarding acquisition pathways for Novartis products • Educate on buy-and-bill end-to-end processes, workflows, and facility pull-through in complex accounts, including scenarios of centralized and decentralized acquisition, and use of alternative channels such as white bagging, clear bagging, brown bagging, and alternate site of care for administration.