Job Description

### Summary

• To establish and maintain a global process across the entire enterprise by managing the implementation program, including all planning, resourcing and budgeting requirements, and ensuring future changes to the process and enabling system are properly managed.


### About the Role


Position Title : Global Project Manager |Procurement|


Location - Hyderabad #LI Hybrid


About the role :


The role has impact on the success of strategic global projects within Procurement and ensures their effective implementation. The ideal candidate brings strong and defendable track record in end-to-end project lifecycle management and data analytics in high matrix organizations.


The role scope is global and requires the ability to engage intentionally with senior stakeholders through a 'systems' mind-set, leveraging data and analytics, to provide high-quality insights that enable sound decision-making.


Your responsibilities include but are not limited to

• Initiate and support impactful projects and their delivery in accordance with project goals, timescales, costs, Novartis methodologies (or other proven methodologies as Agile, Scrum, Prince).
• Ensure delivery of measurable value for Novartis through proper project management, implement appropriate tools and systems for tracking, reporting, and monitoring progress.
• Ensure solutions and project results are properly designed, documented, and implemented with little supervision, and in accordance with the agreed project methodology and process/solution design approach.
• Develop comprehensive reporting mechanisms (ideally leveraging tools such as PowerBI) to provide accurate and timely updates to PLT and other stakeholders.
• Ensure the data and documentation quality meeting required compliance standards and manage comprehensive storage of records, documentation, and evidence in SharePoint, MSTeams, etc.
• Prepare executive-level presentations and reports that effectively communicate project status, risks, and opportunities for decision-making. Analysing specifications for optimization. Linking specification to customer value, challenging specification expertly. Conveying messages clearly and convincing partners.


What you'll bring to the role:

• Proven knowledge or certifications in any of the following areas: Agile, Design Thinking, Lean Six Sigma, Change management, Process Design Improvement.
• Advance analytical skills supporting C-level decision-making, including being able to derive insights from data, and visualize them in a compelling manner (mainly leveraging MS Excel, PowerBI, and PowerPoint).
• Proven experience of working successfully in a collaborative team environment across different cultures, operating with and influencing others to achieve a common objective.
• Excellent communication skill including the ability to communicate clearly and concisely in spoken and written English. Experience working in an international environment or abroad
• Mapping and analyzing the ecosystem, meaning how procurement's customers, stakeholders, suppliers, 3rd parties and even competitors play a role in ecosystems. Deriving potential scenarios for ecosystem management, evaluating, and realizing them.
• Understanding and experience in analyzing spend, demand, supply markets and competitors. Understanding and projecting the dynamics and impacts (e.g., mergers and acquisitions). Extracting, cleansing, and consolidating information to fact-based insights for further usage e.g., in category strategies. Understanding risk management processes.
• Understanding the Procurement KPIs related to market insights, price, and demand development as well as procurement's performance.


Desirable Requirements:

• University/Advanced degree in Business Administration/Economics/Engineering is required and master's degree/other advanced degree or equivalent experience in the supply chain management, business administration or similar is preferred.
• 5+ years of experience with project delivery and data analytics in high matrix organizations. Experience with end-to-end project lifecycle including planning and all elements of project execution.

Why Novartis?


Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people's lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us!


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Division
Operations
Business Unit
CTS
Location
India
Site
Hyderabad (Office)
Company / Legal Entity
IN10 (FCRS = IN010) Novartis Healthcare Private Limited
Functional Area
Procurement
Job Type
Full time
Employment Type
Regular
Shift Work
No


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