About the Role

　　Location: Barcelona, Spain (Hybrid)

　　Bringing life-changing medicines to millions of people, Novartis sits at the intersection of cutting-edge medical science and innovative digital technology. As a global company, the resources and opportunities for growth and development are plentiful including global and local cross functional careers, a diverse learning suite of thousands of programs & an in-house marketplace for rotations & project work. With a strong medicines pipeline our current transformation will not just deliver growth for our business but continue to allow us to bring innovative medicines to patients quickly.

　　Come to work each day with an inclusive and collaborative DDIT US&I business-facing team. As an Director DDIT IM D&A Solution Delivery in the DDIT US&I - Data, Analytics, and Insights team, you'll have opportunities to contribute to the modernization of the data ecosystem, deliver DnA products to the countries and the core brand teams to deliver exceptional customer experience, reach twice as many patients twice as fast to help them prevail over severe diseases by leveraging data-driven insights.

　　This position will be located at Barcelona, Spain. This position will require 10% travel as defined by the business (domestic and/ or international).

　　About the Role:

　　• As a key leader of country D&A solution delivery, you will oversee the rollout of DnA Products for US and international markets, working in conjunction with the DnA Platform products team.

　　• Develop a DnA capability to create platform product/services roadmaps from concept to development to launch, encompassing technology adoption, product engineering, service design, security and compliance, and business process change.

　　• Partner with Solution Architecture team to incubate, adopt emerging DnA technologies and launch products/services faster with rapid prototyping & iterative methods to prove and establish value. For identified technologies, launch to enterprise scale, ensuring value is derived.

　　• Focus and align DnA innovation efforts with the Business strategy, IT strategy, and legal/regulatory requirements.

　　• Establish and update strategies, implementation plans, and value cases to implement emerging technologies.

　　• Drive DnA innovation using appropriate people, processes, partners, and tools.

　　• Identify and develop digital, DnA capabilities & ecosystem partnerships in alignment with DnA strategy and in support of Enterprise Architecture and Integration.

　　Key Responsibilities:

　　Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

　　• Has end-to-end accountability for services and product/project incubation, established and delivered across cross-functional business areas.

　　• Serves as point of escalation, review, and approval for key issues and decisions.

　　• Approves strategic and investment plans.

　　• Serves as point of escalation, review, and approval for key issues and decisions.

　　• Take decisions on the resource and capacity plans in line with Business priorities and strategies and close collaboration with delivery teams.

　　• Decide on continuous improvement within the team.

　　• Decides on the program timeline, governance, and deployment strategy.

　　• Decides on budget relative to these programs.

　　• Decides on service designs and organizational design of new platforms/services in alignment with IT leadership.

　　Diversity & Inclusion / EEO

　　We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

　　Role Requirements

　　Essential Requirements:

　　• Higher education, such as a degree in Information Technology and/or relevant business education such as an MBA and Science.

　　• Leading large and/or diverse multi-functional teams

　　• Strong understanding of Big Data and descriptive vs. prescriptive analytical frameworks.

　　• Strong knowledge of MLOps and product life cycle management.

　　• Data product-centric approach to defining solutions. Collaborate with business in gathering requirements, grooming product backlogs, driving delivery, and ongoing data product enhancements.

　　• Agile delivery experience managing multiple concurrent delivery cycles.

　　You'll receive:

　　You can find everything you need to know about our benefits and rewards in the Novartis Life Handbook. https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-reward

　　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! Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

　　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

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　　Division

　　Operations

　　Business Unit

　　DATA, DIGITAL & IT

　　Location

　　Spain

　　Site

　　Barcelona Gran Vía

　　Company / Legal Entity

　　Novartis Farmacéutica, S.A.

　　Functional Area

　　Technology Transformation

　　Job Type

　　Full Time

　　Employment Type

　　Regular

　　Shift Work

　　No