Manuela Bruegger

Major achievements: developed a global Novartis (NP4) policy for interactions with patient organizations, including incorporating comments from affiliates and managing legal and compliance approval. Developed and implemented roll-out and awareness activities, including “train the trainer” documents and developing and conducting training webinars for all relevant functions across the Pharma organization; developed an external guide for patient organizations on how to work with Novartis; developed internal we

Key responsibilities: manage team administration including orientation and logistics support for new team hires; organizing and coordinating of internal & external meetings and events (e.g. large patient group meetings with up to 100 participants); Advocacy budget management; Organizing and coordinating internal training events in specific therapy areas

Provided general administrative support to the TA Head Deputy and dealt independently with requests in his absence; Support additional team members (4-6 people) in their administrative and logistical needs; Organized orientation programs with brand team leaders of new hires; Assisted in budget oversight: Organized internal & external meetings (e.g. Advisory Board meetings)

Managed the subsidiary secretariat with key aspects in English and German correspondence; travel organization for branch manager and organization of visitors programs Maintained branch statistics Managed central cash-account required to support advanced freight payments (up to CHF 40’000 weekly)

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