Job Description Summary
- Primary responsibility is to support strategic business projects for Novartis Group, the CEO and the Executive Committee, with the aim of maximizing economic value and securing future competitive advantage.
- Support Senior Strategy Managers and Directors in projects around key Novartis products in major markets.
- Deliver substantially greater outcome improvement than from the product alone.
- Deliver substantially greater financial rewards for Novartis based on this.
Job Description
Major accountabilities
- Manage Novartis Strategy Community. The project manager maintains the contact with the divisional strategy teams and plans/organizes regular update meetings.
- Lead small projects at any time from project scoping, creating content, and managing stakeholders to generate insights and prepare outputs which enable informed decisions.
- Prepare regular exchange between community members, e.g. independent organization of the annual Strategy offsite meeting (including agenda, speakers, etc).
- Ensure transparent communication across the divisional Strategy teams.
- Support the managers and directors in project work and provide expert consultation during all project phases.
- Align closely with stakeholders at country, functional and global level as defined by the requirements of the different projects and initiatives.
- Independently monitor milestones of the projects as well as completion.
- Assist Head of Strategy on larger strategy projects across units and functions as well as countries.
- Take ownership for subparts of the overall project and ensure completion of these.
- Proactively apply project management methodologies.
- Provide change management support and appropriate communications for the implementation of projects and initiatives.
- Reporting of technical complaints / adverse events / special case scenarios related to Novartis products within 24 hours of receipt – Distribution of marketing samples (where applicable).
Key performance indicators
- Successfully lead a small project to final output.
- Feedback from internal and external stakeholders on quality of deliverable.
- Performance against annual objectives and milestones as in workplan.
- Feedback from internal and external partners regarding interaction, prioritization, time management, etc.
Minimum Requirements
Work Experience
- Collaborating across boundaries.
- Major Change.
- Geographic Scope.
- Project Management.
- Operations Management and Execution.
Skills
- Building Construction.
- Business Networking.
- Business Partners.
- Business Planning.
- Business Process Transformation.
- Business Strategy.
- Curiosity.
- Decision Tree (Forecasting Model).
- Diversity & Inclusion.
- Finance.
- Go-To-Market Strategy.
- Key Account Management.
- Leadership.
- Lean Six Sigma.
- Management Consulting.
- Scrum (Programming Methodology).
- Strategic Planning.
Languages
Skills Desired
Building Construction, Business Networking, Business Partners, Business Planning, Business Process Transformation, Business Strategy, Curious Mindset, Decision Tree (Forecasting Model), Diversity & Inclusion, Finance, Go-To-Market Strategy, Key Account Management, Leadership, Lean Six Sigma, Management Consulting, Scrum (Programming Methodology), Strategic Planning