Summary
About the Role
Major accountabilities:
- Manage and maintain Program roadmap and release plans (key activities, deliverables, and milestones).
- Understand the interdependencies in integrated program plan spanning across releases and identify bottlenecks and impacts triggered by plan changes.
- Facilitate plan changes, their impacts and manage their endorsement at various program executive levels.
- Work closely with Release and workstream leads with relation to planning topics.
- Work closely with KPI team to report progress against the plan.
- Ensure sufficient awareness of the plan including ownership of SW tools related to planning.
- Be an active member of Program PMO team, look for improvements and simplifications.
- Keep up to date plans with key activities, dependencies and milestones.
- Stakeholder satisfaction
- Maintaining awareness of the plans across various teams within the program
Minimum Requirements:
Work Experience:
- Project/program management experience, leadership of E2E IT project delivery
- Exposure to analytical roles (IT or BU)
- Experience with ERP systems or from Pharma industry is a plus
- Change Management, Decision Making Skills and Project/Program Management.
- Project Risk Management, Project Team Management and Stakeholder Engagement.
- Advanced interpersonal skills
- Ability to work under pressure, meeting the deadlines.
- Analytical thinking. Ability to learn fast in complex and evolving environment.
- Advanced user of MS Project , MS Office, Jira is a plus
Why consider 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:
https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:
Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.
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