**Summary**:
The Novartis Program Manager is responsible for executing strategic business programs aimed at driving and enhancing financial performance.
This role supports and collaborates with various functions on key product initiatives.
**About the Role**:
**Position Summary**
The Novartis Program Manager is responsible for executing strategic business programs aimed at driving and enhancing financial performance.
This role supports and collaborates with various functions on key product initiatives.
**Responsibilities**:
- Lead and manage complex projects, ensuring timely and budget-conscious delivery.
- Act as a Program Manager for large teams, coordinating activities, and managing stakeholder communications.
- Ensure all projects achieve successful outcomes, with solutions designed and implemented according to agreed-upon methodologies.
- Manage project deliverables within the project's methodological framework, addressing risks as necessary.
**Business Design and Strategy**:
- Assess stakeholders' current business models and identify areas for improvement.
- Develop and implement strategic initiatives.
- Generate strategic insights based on best-in-class analysis, supporting informed decisions by top leaders.
- Conduct in-depth analysis of business processes, identify pain points, and map initiatives for improvement.
**Cross-functional Collaboration**:
- Work with multicultural teams across various functional departments
- Collaborate with remote teams and stakeholders in other regions to ensure alignment and achieve project goals.
- Engage with internal stakeholders, functional departments, IT, and third-party vendors to ensure project goals are met.
**Data and Process Analysis**:
- Utilize data to generate insights and support decision-making.




- Conduct in-depth analysis of processes to identify pain points and map out areas for improvement.
**Change Management**:
- Engage with stakeholders to ensure smooth transitions and adoption of new processes.
**Position Requirements**
- Bachelor's degree in scientific field required; Advanced degree preferred.
- Additional certifications in project management (e.g. PRINCE2, PMP) and agile methodologies are desirable.
- 5+ years in pharmaceutical industry (or similar area of work) with a proven record for managing and/or coordinating projects from start to completion.
- Proven record of accomplishments that demonstrate strong strategic project management, analytical and multitasking skills.
- Demonstrated track record of success and leadership skills working on multidisciplinary drug development teams in different phases of development in a complex matrix environment.
- Experience managing and forecasting budgets.
- Advanced user skills in project management tools, Excel, Word, PowerPoint.
- Strong written, oral & presentation skills, with an ability to make professional and credible first impressions with internal and external customers.
- High degree of organizational, analytical, and team management and leadership skills.
- Ability to work on complex, multi-faceted projects.
- Excellent interpersonal communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
**_ Position will be filled at level commensurate with experience._**
Division
People & Organization
Business Unit
Innovative Medicines
Location
Mexico
Site
INSURGENTES
Company / Legal Entity
MX06 (FCRS = MX006) Novartis Farmacéutica S.A. de C.V.
Functional Area
BD&L; & Strategic Planning
Job Type
Full time
Employment Type
Regular
Shift Work
No
**Accessibility and accommodation**:
Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.

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