Delivery Lead, Engine Programs & Transformation

Legend Biotech USA; East Hanover (NJ); On-site; USD 139,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Novartis is seeking an AD, Engine Delivery Lead at the East Hanover, NJ site. This role will not be remote and may require travel. You will lead cross-functional delivery efforts across business, data, technology, and organizational change to turn strategies into measurable outcomes.

The position emphasizes building integrated plans, governance, and disciplined execution while partnering with vendors and internal teams to achieve strategic goals with scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in a related field.
• 6+ years of experience in program/project delivery, transformation execution, PMO, or cross-functional initiative management.
• Experience in pharma/biotech/healthcare or regulated delivery environments is preferred.
• Ability to build integrated plans, milestone maps, and governance materials.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain integrated delivery plans, milestones, critical paths, dependencies, and deployment roadmaps.
• Translate strategic objectives into executable workstreams with ownership and delivery commitments.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure alignment, accountability, and execution across initiatives.
• Lead delivery governance forums and provide clear, decision-focused updates to stakeholders and leadership.
• Monitor progress, risks, issues, dependencies, and capacity to address challenges.
• Drive disciplined follow-through across business, data, technology, finance, people, and external partners.
• Facilitate transitions across discovery, design, build, validation, deployment, and scaling phases.
• Assess delivery readiness, resource sufficiency, and milestone achievement for success.
• Develop and implement recovery plans when scope or timelines threaten objectives.
• Capture lessons learned and support vendor performance and operational excellence.

Skills

Delivery planning

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder communication

Risk management

Agile/SAFe

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, life sciences, healthcare, operations, technology, engineering, analytics, or related discipline

Tools

Jira

Smartsheet

MS Project

Power BI

Excel

PowerPoint

Copilot

Job description

Novartis is seeking an AD, Engine Delivery Lead at the East Hanover, NJ site. This role will not be remote and may require travel. You will lead cross-functional delivery efforts across business, data, technology, and organizational change to turn strategies into measurable outcomes.

The position emphasizes building integrated plans, governance, and disciplined execution while partnering with vendors and internal teams to achieve strategic goals with scale.