Director, Analytics Program Management

Novartis
East Hanover, NJ Full Time
POSTED ON 12/11/2021 CLOSED ON 1/14/2023

Job Posting for Director, Analytics Program Management at Novartis

20 petabytes of data across 30 data domains across the whole bio-pharma value chain waiting to unlock the next breakthrough in medicine!

The Director, Analytics Program Management will provide leadership and project management to assigned strategic programs to ensure successful execution and achievement of desired business results. In this role you will be accountable for achieving strategic goals of assigned programs in alignment with Commercial Acceleration (CA) and Enterprise Insights & Data Science (EI&DS) organizational expectations.

This includes being responsible for providing advanced program management and leadership of CA and EI&DS’ analytics projects and programs, ensuring program deliverables are achieved on time, within scope, and within budget, helping to create a project management core competency within EI&DS, and collaborating with franchises, product teams, and cross-functional partners to design and execute project and communication plans and initiate change management. We are looking for someone with a natural ability to influence beyond levels and reporting lines to bring solutions organically to the group.

This opportunity is located at the Novartis East Hanover site, and will not have the ability to be located remotely.

What you will be responsible for?

Leadership
  • Lead CA and EI&DS strategic analytics programs / projects and teams to achieve stated program / project and business objectives in line with specific strategies
  • Apply advanced program / project management practices, tools and techniques
  • Identify, manage, and track project critical path activities and dependencies
  • Achieve intended strategic objectives and deliver assigned projects on time, within scope, within budget and with quality-compliance
  • Build and maintain comprehensive and professional project documentation, including project plan, tracking, and subsequent implementation and closeout materials
  • Routinely embed advanced risk management principles to minimize project risks
  • Act as first point of contact and establish appropriate channels to communicate project progress and performance on a regular basis to all relevant partners
  • Proactively assess, develop, and implement optimal organizational change and communication plan, to ensure organizational readiness throughout implementations
  • Develop, track and report overall program performance metrics, including sharing new insights and implementing corrective actions, where needed
  • Tracking initiatives and linking them to strategic imperatives and working with franchise teams to ensure best practices are delivered

People
  • Foster collaboration among team leads and associates and other project managers to enable collaborative ways of working, knowledge sharing, and consistency in the delivery of identified strategies
  • Ensure teams work effectively cross-functionally with CA and EI&DS Leads, I&E Leads, the Data and Platform group and vendors to meet organizational needs
  • Manage strategic vendors, providing functional expertise to guide best-in-class service delivery and innovative thinking

EEO Statement

The Novartis Group of Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers and take pride in maintaining a diverse environment. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. We are committed to building diverse teams, representative of the patients and communities we serve, and we strive to create an inclusive workplace that cultivates bold innovation through collaboration and empowers our people to unleash their full potential.

Minimum requirements

What you’ll bring to the role:
  • Bachelor’s degree in health sciences, business or financial management, analytics, and/or engineering. Advanced degree preferred
  • PMP certification and/ or certified Agile professional credentials (or equivalent professional project experience) a plus
  • 10 years Project & Program Management experience in large, complex initiatives
  • 5 years Life Sciences industry experience (pharmaceutical, biotech, biopharma, medical device, med tech, etc.)
  • Experience designing and/ or executing analytics or market research projects
  • Demonstrated strong skills in oral and written communication
  • Ability to build relationships, collaborate and influence across a matrix organization
  • Demonstrated experience in organizational savviness and stakeholder management to balance multiple conflicting initiatives and optimize contributions

Why Novartis?
769 million. That’s how many lives our products touched in 2020. And while we’re proud of that fact, in this world of digital and technological transformation, we must also ask ourselves this: how can we continue to improve and extend even more people’s lives?

We believe the answers are found when curious, courageous and collaborative people like you are brought together in an inspiring environment. Where you’re given opportunities to explore the power of digital and data. Where you’re empowered to risk failure by taking smart risks, and where you’re surrounded by people who share your determination to tackle the world’s toughest medical challenges.

Imagine what you could do at Novartis!

Join our Novartis Network: If this role is not suitable to your experience or career goals but you wish to stay connected to learn more about Novartis and our career opportunities, join the Novartis Network here: https://talentnetwork.novartis.com/network

Division

PHARMA

Business Unit

US PHARMA

Country

USA

Work Location

East Hanover, NJ

Company/Legal Entity

Novartis Pharmaceuticals

Functional Area

Marketing

Job Type

Full Time

Employment Type

Regular

Shift Work

No

Early Talent

No
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