Strategic Program Lead: New Capabilities & Adoption

Legend Biotech USA; East Hanover (NJ); On-site; USD 153,000 - 283,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Health, life and disability benefits

Generous time off

Job summary

Novartis seeks an Associate Director for US New Capabilities Program Lead in East Hanover, NJ to own the central program office, align roadmap across pillars, and drive governance, KPI reporting, and value realization. Travel up to 20% is required and the role reports to the ED, US New Capabilities & Adoption.

The position emphasizes building integrated roadmaps, planning rhythms, and executive-ready updates, with a focus on AI adoption, change enablement, and SPT communications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business or related field required; MBA/MS preferred.
• Experience in program management, business operations, transformation, or consulting at least 7+ years.
• Experience with commercial transformation, AI adoption, or change enablement.
• Experience running cross-functional operating cadences, dashboards, executive materials, and action tracking.
• Strong PowerPoint, Excel, project tooling, stakeholder management, and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the integrated US New Capabilities & Adoption roadmap across pillars with milestones, owners, dependencies, risks, and value measures.
• Run planning rhythms, leadership team agendas, decision logs, action trackers, and executive updates for the function.
• Coordinate intake and prioritization of capability-building needs to avoid backlog and inefficiencies.
• Establish common KPI definitions for adoption, learning effectiveness, readiness, usage, productivity, and value realization.
• Support budget, vendor, resource, and capacity planning with Finance and leads.
• Maintain documentation standards, SharePoint/Teams structures, governance archives, and reusable templates.

Skills

PowerPoint

Excel

Stakeholder management

Project tooling

Written communication

Confidential information handling

Education

Bachelors degree in business or related field

MBA or MS preferred

Tools

SharePoint/Teams

Dashboard tooling

Job description

Novartis seeks an Associate Director for US New Capabilities Program Lead in East Hanover, NJ to own the central program office, align roadmap across pillars, and drive governance, KPI reporting, and value realization. Travel up to 20% is required and the role reports to the ED, US New Capabilities & Adoption.

The position emphasizes building integrated roadmaps, planning rhythms, and executive-ready updates, with a focus on AI adoption, change enablement, and SPT communications.