Project & Program Management Lead, NIBR Informatics (80-100%)
Inseriert am: 17.02.2020
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Job ID289581BRPosition TitleProject & Program Management Lead, NIBR Informatics (80-100%)Apply to Job
Job Description
6,000 scientists and physicians in Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research use data & systems to reimagine medicine and create therapies that save lives: join us to design how NIBR Informatics Project & Program Management keeps delivering the most sophisticated computing systems possible.
You will be in a new team and lead/shape how NIBR Informatics (NX) delivers projects and programs by aligning Project and Program management skills and delivery approaches across NX. Your significant expertise will enable you to work side-by-side with Product Management and Engineering Leads to identify the best approaches for managing delivery and have Product lines and Product teams with the right talent.
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Novartis Institutes for BioMedical (NIBR) is the global pharmaceutical research organization of Novartis with a mission to discover innovative medicines that treat disease and human health. Our scientists need cutting-edge, state-of-the-art computing systems and NIBR Informatics (NX) is a strategic investment into informatics capabilities and positioning to deliver systems and services that are critical to the future of drug discovery.
NX is a global team of ~350 technology scientists and business professionals working across 5 sites, primarily Cambridge MA (USA) and Basel (Switzerland).
- Interview with NIBR CIO: www.novartis.com/stories/people-and-culture/qa-new-nibr-cio-dimitris-agrafiotis
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Responsibilities include but are a not limited to:
• Work with the Strategy and Portfolio management team to improve Portfolio level planning by helping plan complex activities and inter-dependencies across the Portfolio
• Understand full NX Portfolio, status of activities, issues and blockers, and deploy talent based on the priorities of the NX Portfolio
• Partner in execution of delivery across Products lines, Products and Projects, planning execution, managing delivery, identifying blockers and supporting teams
• Collaborate with the global NX Delivery Excellence team to integrate and advance best practice in Project Management for Product and Service delivery
• Early adopter of metrics/ methods of Service and Product Delivery, providing feedback and steering methods for simplicity and impact
• Collaborative leader practicing excellence in your field across NX and with NIBR stakeholders; highly respected by broad NX community
• Servant leader, supporting and mentoring your team to success
NX is a global team of ~350 technology scientists and business professionals working across 5 sites, primarily Cambridge MA (USA) and Basel (Switzerland). Interview with NIBR CIO: www.novartis.com/stories/people-and-culture/qa-new-nibr-cio-dimitris-agrafiotis
• Bachelor degree or higher in Technology, Life Sciences, or closely related subject. Formal Project and Program Management training (e.g. PMP)
• Significant relevant broad technology project and program management career success with increasing levels of responsibility, including at least 5 years of leading the strategy and delivery of large complex international organizational-wide technology implementation projects and programs across a range of IT infrastructure, Software solutions and Products, using agile and adaptive project management approaches
• Experienced investigating then leading innovative IT projects that delivered clever outcomes to advanced and difficult client-wide problems where large-scale standard software/hardware implementation wasn’t the solution
• Sophisticated stakeholder management and relationship building skills, you quickly win trust with all levels of influencer. Colleagues and clients seek you out for your Project & Program Management expertise and advice. You engage with bright colleagues across IT and non-IT for their input and challenges; you see the strategic overview, understand and plan for risks and liabilities, identify project champions from all levels of the organization, and lead the analysis and resolution of complex problems to complex issues
• Understanding of and experience working with key success drivers, constraints and complexities within a global organization (multi-site, multi-country, x,000+ employees)
• Record of successfully implementing, operating and improving operational processes
• Results-focus and passion for efficient delivery; Excellent executive communication and influencing ability
• Experienced Line / People manager. You are a highly resourceful and motivated leader with a strong collaborative spirit. You take interest in those you lead more than a project resource; you are naturally curious about their strengths, areas of growth and how you can support them. You are a servant-leader without hierarchical approach and see colleagues as peers and people, not only resources. Your values & behaviors, ethics and integrity are outstanding.
• Able to travel 25%
Why consider Novartis?
799 million. That’s how many lives our products touched in 2019. And while we’re proud of that fact, in this world of digital and technological transformation, we must also ask ourselves this: how can we continue to improve and extend even more people’s lives?
We believe the answers are found when curious, courageous and collaborative people like you are brought together in an inspiring environment. Where you’re given opportunities to explore the power of digital and data. Where you’re empowered to risk failure by taking smart risks, and where you’re surrounded by people who share your determination to tackle the world’s toughest medical challenges.
Imagine what you could do at Novartis!
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:
Novartis embraces diversity, equal opportunity and inclusion. We are committed to building diverse teams, representative of the patients and communities we serve, and we strive to create an inclusive workplace that cultivates bold innovation through collaboration, and empowers our people to unleash their full potential.
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