Assoc. Dir. Ddit Us&i Content Enablement Product Delivery

**Summary**:
As the Associate Director,
- Act as product manager and dedicated to a technology product with focus end to end delivery: define design build deploy and sunset.
- By defining the technology product Vision, Purpose and Roadmap contribute to the development of the technology strategy to enable technology products/services roadmaps from concept to development to launch encompassing technology adoption, product engineering, service design, security and compliance and business process change.
- Together with business product owners work in a cross functional team based on defined way of working and
- Address customers’ needs co-create and execute technology products to respond to business challenge
- Drive e2e functional architecture and system integration of technology products across processes data and technologies.
- Demonstrate value and impact of technology products as well as support to deliver financial targets
- Guide business functions to enable and adopt the technology product.
- Collaborate with Enterprise Shared Services’ functions to ensure that technologies are leveraged at scale for the technology product.

**About the Role**:
**Key Responsibilities**:

- Partners with business product owners to set technology roadmap, with a vision ensuring that technology products generate business value for the defined customer.
- Has end-to-end accountability for technology product delivery across business area
- Serves as a point of escalation, review and approval for technology key issues and decisions.
- Drive facilitates the approval of technology product investment plans.
- Work on continuous improvement with the cross functional delivery team.
- Exhibits product management mindset necessary to establish the solution with respective business product owner counterparts.
- Acts as trusted advisor driving decisions, priorities and relevant product information with both business product owner and colleagues across DDIT.
- Proactively sharing knowledge of technology risks with business product owners.
- Manage dependencies to support the coordination across product roadmaps.
- For the technology product, either support to unlock pain points / blockers or, in case it cannot be solved at team level, identify the right escalation path to get pain points / blockers remove.
- Develop an environment which fosters a collaborative, innovative and high-performing team where product management is leveraged to create value for the business.
- Advocates product management and shapes team way of working to ensure business value creation throughout the product life cycle.
- Support the product team to continually learn an advance maturity of the team, and advocate for product team.
- Ensure agile ways of working are applied for product development/delivery/lifecycle

**Essential Requirements**

Education & Qualifications
- University Degree and/or relevant experience and professional qualifications

Experience
- Collaborating across boundaries, track record delivering technology products.
- Ability to work in a cross-functional team within a matrix environment.
- IT Technical Strategy and Planning, Emerging Technology Monitoring, Influencing and persuading, Conceptual / 'Blue sky' thinking, Building High Performing Teams, Vendor Management, Financial Management.
- Business area experience across disciplines in the pharmaceutical industry.
- Demonstrated Product Management; Experience working in a product team or digital/tech highly desirable.
- Experience working in a complex organization, building relationships, and driving engagement.
- Has a toolkit for product management that includes an understanding of Agile and Lean methodologies, and OKRs. Experience of delivery through these methods is highly desirable.
- Expertise in organization dynamics and culture ability to gain trust and confidence at all levels in the organization leadership and project management experience.
- Capability to lead without formal authority. Deep knowledge in Pharma industry.
- Previous experience and strong mindset in continuous improvement and change management Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Needs to be able to work independently and reliably.
- Willingness to adapt, speak-up and challenge and take calculated risks
- Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:_
- Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve._
- Accessibility and accommodation_

Division

Operations

Business Unit

CTS

Location

India

Site

Hyderabad (Office)

Company / Legal Entity

IN10 (FCRS = IN010) Novartis Healthcare Private Limited

Functional Area

Technology Transformation

Job Type

Full time

Employment Type

Regular

Shift Work

No