Major accountabilities:

• Business Partnership: Collaborate with IT Strategic Business Partners and business stakeholders to analyze demand, propose solutions, evaluate alternatives, and provide funding estimates.
• Solution Delivery: Partner with Technology Service/Solutions Delivery teams to ensure that platform and product strategies align with key market needs, while being scalable and reusable for priority and smaller markets.
• Project Execution: Ensure timely, compliant, secure, and within-budget delivery of projects in the assigned business domain.
• Business Value Delivery: Guarantee that all services, solutions, platforms, and products meet business objectives and deliver the intended impact.
• Performance Tracking: Define, track, and report on success metrics and KPIs for stakeholders within the domain.
• Industry Awareness: Keep up with emerging industry trends and practices to drive agility, speed, and efficiency in the solutions delivered.
• User-Centric Design: Ensure that the overall user experience is considered when designing and deploying new solutions.
• Compliance: Ensure all solutions adhere to security and compliance policies and procedures.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Minimum Requirements:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years in IT Project/Product Delivery, including strategy development, global project management, people leadership, and stakeholder management.
• Proven experience in the life sciences, pharmaceutical, or medical sectors with a focus on IT product/solution delivery is an added advantage.

Skills:

• Project management, budget management, and risk management.
• Strong business acumen, strategic planning, and performance management skills.
• Ability to manage service delivery and balance global solutions with local needs.
• Proficiency in working with global teams, collaboration, negotiation, and conflict resolution.
• Demonstrated leadership experience in managing teams and stakeholder relationships.
• Communication: Excellent interpersonal, analytical, and problem-solving skills with proven ability to engage with senior management and foster trust-based relationships.

Languages: Fluent in English.

Why Novartis: Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world.

How can we achieve this?

With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us! Learn more here: http://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

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http://talentnetwork.novartis.com/network