Summary
About the Role
Major accountabilities:
- Business partner to proactively shape change portfolio and technology roadmap (3-5y horizon)
- Drive forward thinking and innovation within business w.r.to tech driven business capabilities and processes, leading conversation with consulting mindset together with other DDIT functions
- Measure and drive business value of transformation initiatives underpinned by programs, projects, products
- DDIT budget accountability to the business. Help business to understand their choices to manage technology costs
- Partner with countries or sites (where applicable) in respect to country/site roadmaps balancing global and local investments and business needs
- Contributes to and interprets business and DDIT strategy to shape strategy and future direction for the Novartis innovative medicines / Customer engagement
- Fully accountable for determining the operational objectives and medium-term planning according to the long-term plans established by the DDIT strategy
Additional accountabilities (Japan & APMA Specific):
- Additional accountabilities (Japan & APMA Specific)
- Responsibly define, plan and execute commercial initiatives following the Novartis principles of going big on data & digital
- Drive enablement of digital capabilities for the Commercial Domain in close cooperation with DDIT delivery teams and IM BE&E and CE&E teams.
- Obtain understanding of business and IT processes across commercial platforms
- Collaborate with Service Operation team to manage the situations when critical issues happen.
Requirements:
- Background / experience on big data technologies and related capabilities for data Analytics, AI/ML, exploratory, Data Science etc. (like but not limited to: Python, Jupyter Notebooks, SageMaker, SnowFlake, Databirks)
- 5+ years’ experience in multiple assignments in IT, preferably relating to Marketing & Sales, in large, multi-national companies.
- Experience to work in complex organizational environments (e.g. matrix organizations).
- Broad knowledge of state-of-the-art IT technologies and best practices around commercial capabilities (SFE, BI, MA etc)
- Experience in Veeva, Salesforce, Informatica, SAP, Workday, Master Data Management, Website technology, Google Analytics is a plus
- Good understanding of commercial business processes and experienced is a plus.
- Healthcare industry including FMCG experience & understanding commercial business process is a plus
- Solid educational background, MBA or advanced degree in Information Technology or Business Administration preferred.
- business fluent both in English and Japanese (written and spoken), any other languages are a plus
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