In January 2016, Novartis Group announced a new operating model whereby certain products would be shifted between divisions:
Alcon Ophtha to Pharma
Certain Pharma Mature Brands products to Sandoz
New Organizational Units (OU) would be set up for the cross-divisional management of Technical Operations (TechOps), Global Drug Development (GDD) and Quality Assurance (QA)
QA costs will continue to be embedded within the functional costs of the divisions and Organizational Units and there will be no change in local reporting
In June 2016, a further announcement was made that the Pharmaceuticals division would be internally restructured into two Business Units (BU), Pharma (previously General Medicines) and Oncology, and the division renamed as Innovative Medicines (IM)
In order to achieve this, a new reporting structure is required to report the Innovative Medicines Division into these two BUs, and to segregate costs related to GDD, TechOps and NIBR between;
Controllable (“above the line”) by the Business Units (BUs); and
Costs directly controllable by the Organizational Units (“below the line”)