Engine Delivery Lead - Drive Cross-Functional Execution

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

Job summary

Novartis is seeking an AD, Engine Delivery Lead to join our East Hanover, NJ team. This on-site role requires travel and focuses on turning strategic objectives into coordinated, measurable delivery outcomes across business, data, and technology.

You will lead cross-functional teams and governance forums to ensure disciplined delivery from discovery through deployment. Key to success is building integrated plans, managing dependencies, and driving execution excellence in a regulated healthcare

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field as listed.
• 6+ years in program/project delivery or related roles.
• Experience in pharma/healthcare or regulated delivery environments.
• Experience building integrated plans, milestones, risk/issue, and governance materials.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams without replacing ownership.
• Ability to pressure-test delivery realism and readiness.
• Strong written, analytical, and facilitation skills.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain integrated delivery plans, milestones, critical paths, dependencies, and deployment roadmaps.
• Translate strategic objectives into executable workstreams with ownership and measurable delivery commitments.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and execution across initiatives.
• Lead delivery governance forums and provide 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 and milestone achievement to ensure successful outcomes.
• Develop and implement recovery plans when scope, timelines, or risks threaten delivery objectives.
• Capture lessons learned and support vendor performance and operational excellence.

Education

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

Tools

Agile/SAFe

Scrum

Jira

Smartsheet

MS Project

Power BI

Excel

PowerPoint

Copilot

Job description

Novartis is seeking an AD, Engine Delivery Lead to join our East Hanover, NJ team. This on-site role requires travel and focuses on turning strategic objectives into coordinated, measurable delivery outcomes across business, data, and technology.

You will lead cross-functional teams and governance forums to ensure disciplined delivery from discovery through deployment. Key to success is building integrated plans, managing dependencies, and driving execution excellence in a regulated healthcare