Lead, Enterprise Automation Delivery & Factory Growth

sandoz; Elsene; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Sandoz is seeking an Automation Delivery Lead to oversee enterprise automation across Factory and non-Factory scopes, focusing initially on Appian and Aurora programmes. You will govern the Automation Factory, scale platforms, and coordinate with delivery partners to ensure secure, compliant, and value-driven outcomes.

The role requires extensive experience in complex technology delivery, strong governance of partners, and the ability to align stakeholders across architecture, security, and

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise IT, application delivery, software engineering, platform delivery, or automation solutions
• At least 5 years of end-to-end accountability for complex technology delivery involving multiple stakeholders, platforms, and external delivery partners
• Experience delivering enterprise automation solutions, ideally using Appian or comparable low-code, workflow, orchestration, or automation platforms
• Demonstrated experience establishing, governing, and scaling a factory-based or comparable delivery model
• Strong experience governing delivery partners, contractual commitments, service performance, delivery quality, risks, escalations, and knowledge transfer

Responsibilities

• Own enterprise automation delivery across Factory and non-Factory scope, expanding the Automation Factory across platforms, capabilities, and business demand
• Act as the primary internal interface with delivery partners, ensuring scope, timelines, budget, quality, resourcing, and knowledge transfer
• Align business stakeholders, architecture, platform engineering, quality, security, operations, and other internal functions on priorities and decisions
• Establish and govern delivery standards, lifecycle controls, reusable patterns, documentation, release expectations, and compliance with enterprise architecture, information security, GxP, validation, and data integrity
• Oversee demand intake, delivery-route assessment, roadmaps, prioritisation, capacity, risks, dependencies, escalations, adoption, and transition to sustainable support
• Drive onboarding of additional automation platforms and capabilities into the Factory model using performance, lessons learned, reusable assets, and demand to scale sustainably

Skills

Budget Management

Business Acumen

Influenci

Job description

Sandoz is seeking an Automation Delivery Lead to oversee enterprise automation across Factory and non-Factory scopes, focusing initially on Appian and Aurora programmes. You will govern the Automation Factory, scale platforms, and coordinate with delivery partners to ensure secure, compliant, and value-driven outcomes.

The role requires extensive experience in complex technology delivery, strong governance of partners, and the ability to align stakeholders across architecture, security, and