Business Operations Manager (BOM - tactical)

Novartis India; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Novartis India is seeking a seasoned tactical budget manager to support BR-TM budget activities and improve budget execution across early development deliverables. The role involves coordinating with Clinical Finance Managers, tracking PO activity, and delivering timely budget forecasts to ensure data accuracy and risk mitigation.

Candidates should have 10+ years in clinical operations or budgeting, strong communication skills, and a scientific undergraduate background.

Qualifications

• 10+ years overall experience in clinical operations or budget management
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in clinical operations (early development), procurement or trial budget execution
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to navigate financial systems and maintain data accuracy
• Undergraduate degree in scientific discipline or life science background

Responsibilities

• Provide tactical budget support for daily tasks in study conduct and cross-TM cost activities.
• Monitor PO activity and budget impact; deliver quarterly PO risk assessments.
• Support budget planning and forecasting; track budget impact from contracts and amendments.
• Maintain data accuracy in tracking systems and data sources.
• Support end-of-trial budget activities and PO closeouts.
• Identify budget risks and opportunities; report to stakeholders.

Skills

Budget management

Stakeholder management

cGCP knowledge

Proactive problem solving

Communication

Education

Undergraduate degree in life sciences

Relevant work experience in biopharma

Tools

SAP/ERP

Job description

Summary

As a tactical BOM, you will participate in proactively supporting tactical budget activities across the Biomedical Research Translational Medicine (BR-TM) organization. The role strengthens op-erational budget consistency, improves financial risk detection, and ensures high-quality budget execution across budget life cycle early development related to TM deliverables.

Summary

As a tactical BOM, you will participate in proactively supporting tactical budget activities across the Biomedical Research Translational Medicine (BR-TM) organization. The role strengthens op-erational budget consistency, improves financial risk detection, and ensures high-quality budget execution across budget life cycle early development related to TM deliverables.

This role complements the end-to-end budget management and oversight under the Portfolio Resources and Finance Management group. Whilst not having any direct overall clinical budget responsibility the BOM needs to have a solid understanding of budget activities and forecasting. It is also of huge benefit that the TBM is familiar with basic clinical study/early development conduct terms and timings.

About The Role

Major accountabilities

• Proactively provide tactical solutions for daily budget tasks during study conduct and other cross-TM cost activities. Serve as first contact for basic budget support and PO and invoice matters from study maintenance onward.
• Oversee and monitor PO activity and budget impact. Detect risks and communicate to Clinical Finance Manager. Deliver quarterly PO risk assessments on GR IR balances.
• Track budget impact from contracts and amendments. Support timely, current budget planning and forecasting.
• Ensure tracking systems and data sources are accurate and up to date.
• Support Therapeutic Area-level budget deliverables. Provide Clinical Finance Managers with PO-related financial risk inputs.
• Support end-of-trial budget activities. Partner with Clinical study team and drive timely, accurate PO closeouts.
• Identify budget risks and opportunities. Communicate and report to relevant stakeholders
• Contribute to process improvement.
• Support internal TM processes with guidance on requirements and best practices.
• Represent your function to deliver tactical support to Translational Management. Collect data and track KPIs and other performance indicators.
• Liaise with customers and partners to align actions and track deliverables.
• Maintain supporting IT systems to keep information accurate.

Minimum Requirement

• Total experience of 10+ years Understanding of clinical study processes and Minimum 5 years’ experience in Clinical Operations (early development), procurement or trial budget execution.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management. Proactive problem solver.
• Ability to navigate financial systems and maintain data accuracy.
• Ability to prioritize work, multitask, manage time appropriately in a fast paced/high volume environment. Proven cGCP background
• Undergraduate degree, preferably in a scientific discipline or life science background or equivalent work experience

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