Principal Consultant, Management Consulting

Major accountabilities:

• Own the Enterprise Value:

  • Work with global functions, regional and country management in partnership with BTS Account leads to understand the opportunity pipeline and work to convert this into projects – in line with strategy, prioritization, and engagement management processes.

  • Develop/customize consulting tools and methodologies for delivering consulting project opportunities.

  • Find opportunities to expand management consulting service offerings by partnering with the business.

• Own the human system:

  • Line management of local consulting teams, including Lead Consultants (direct reports), Senior Consultants, Consultants, and Associate Consultants.

  • Lead with our culture and ensure that your behavior role models our values of being Inspired, Unbossed, Curious, and having Integrity and actively champion and exhibit “one team” behaviors.

  • Lead / significantly contribute to BTS internal initiatives around People & Culture development, Knowledge management & Innovation (including Gen AI) and Operational Excellence.

• Own the quality:

  • Ensure that the internal customer relationship is proactively managed, and the highest levels of customer satisfaction are maintained throughout the lifecycle of the project.

  • Demonstrate objectivity and highlight and resolve issues including having difficult conversations with stakeholders and associates.

Minimum Requirements:

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree, preferably in science, engineering, business administration or economics.

•  Minimum of 15 years' experience driving value in leading organizations, scoping, shaping, leading and delivering change and /or process improvement projects and programs in a Top 5 consulting firm or in an equivalent large corporate environment.

• Significant experience leading and managing end-to-end project lifecycles including planning and driving all elements of project execution.

• Proven track record of managing consulting teams (including virtual teams) and influencing senior stakeholders of widely varying backgrounds across a dispersed and matrixed organization.

• Demonstrated competency in more than one core capability – program/project management, operating model design, change management, integrations & separations, launches or product management

• Significant experience in Life Sciences, ideally in a consulting or equivalent role.

Desirable requirements:
 

• Masters in a change related subject matter area as well as any additional certifications such as Lean Six Sigma, Agile, Change management, Enterprise Communications, Project management, Facilitation /Coaching, design thinking, ITIL.

• Experience with Gen AI technologies – as a user and in enabling other clients to use them

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: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

You’ll receive: You can find everything you need to know about our benefits and rewards in the Novartis Life Handbook. https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards

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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