Job Description
Job Summary/Purpose :
The Global Associate Director, Solutions Delivery Pipeline & Portfolio Solutions reports to the Global Head, Regulatory, Patient Safety and Pipeline & Portfolio Solutions. The role is managing service delivery for a business area/sub capability of the company across all geographies. Accountable to Global Business Units for end-to-end project delivery and/or operations in the given sub-domain/sub-capability. Partner with Business Stakeholders (GPO) and Technology teams for demand analysis, solution proposal/evaluation and project delivery.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Run efficient DevOps during whole lifecycle of platforms, products, or systems from initiation till retirement, ensuring availability and optimal performance for responsible Domain / functions.
- Define and execute technology delivery strategy for business systems, platforms, and processes for responsible business domain/function(s)
- Partner with senior business stakeholders and technology teams for demand analysis, solution proposal/evaluation, and funding estimates
- Partner with vendors to keep abreast with upgrades, changes and latest technology.
- Ensure on time, within budget, compliant, secure, and quality delivery of portfolio for responsible Business domain / functions.
- Ensure services, solutions, products are fit for purpose and achieve the desired business value and impact.
- Establish governance structure for projects, operations, etc. with right stakeholder representation for responsible Domain / functions.
- Track, report, and deliver against agreed success factors and KPIs for various stakeholders for responsible Domain / functions.
- Follow industry trends and emerging practices to drive agility, speed, efficiency, and effectiveness. Ensure the overall user experience is considered when designing deploying new solutions and services.
- Take accountability to ensure adherence to Security and Compliance policies and procedures.
- If required, manage projects/products following Agile and other relevant PM practices.
Diversity and Inclusion
We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.
Minimum Requirements
What you'll bring to the role:
Background
Education
University degree or various degrees in business, computer science, information technology discipline or equivalent, MBA optional
Languages
English excellent fluency in oral and written
Experience
- Minimum 8 to 10 years of industry experience in IT, healthcare, or pharma; expert understanding of technology and methodologies as applied in the respective area.
- Multi-national global experience
- Excellent Functional experience in pharmaceutical development domains combined with build & run of Digital & IT solutions.
- Experience in leading products and managing diverse group of stakeholders.
- Experience and understanding of Agile product development.
- Strong Experience in technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, evaluating alternatives including cost, risk, supportability and analyses for systems total cost of ownership and return on investment of various IT platform/infrastructure alternatives.
- Deep knowledge of IT & business processes and experience in validated environments (GxP)
- Ability to communicate effectively with senior management, manage issues, resolve conflicts, and mitigate risks.
Skills
- Strong SFDC knowledge (incl. CRM Analytics / Einstein) and understanding, certifications are a plus.
- Good communication & presentation skills
- Networking with key business and IT stakeholders and ability to present to stakeholder groups.
- Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills at team and management levels, with the ability to establish and maintain a high level of trust and confidence.
- Strong internal and/or external influencing skills to achieve the program objectives.
- Analytical, process-oriented with a keen interest to drive continuous improvements.
- Acting as a role model for all people within the organization
- Strong can-do attitude and results-focused, with capability to think strategically.
Why Sandoz
500 million patients were touched by Sandoz generic and biosimilar medicines in 2021 and while we're proud of this, we know there is more we could do to continue to help pioneer access to medicines for people around the world.
How will we do this We believe new insights, perspectives and ground-breaking solutions can be found at the intersection of medical science and digital innovation. That a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment inspires new ways of working.
We believe our potential can thrive and grow in an unbossed culture underpinned by integrity, curiosity and flexibility. And we can reinvent what's possible, when we collaborate with courage to aggressively and ambitiously tackle the world's toughest medical challenges. Because the greatest risk in life, is the risk of never trying!
Imagine what you could achieve here at Sandoz!
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