REQ-10053006
Sep 02, 2025
Spain & Spain

Summary

The Core Design Business Workstream lead is accountable for the design across Novartis Operating Units to drive change and engagement enabling Novartis to transform into a focused medicines company powered by data and digital.

Actively leverage the entire LDC teams, key stakeholders / senior management to shape the structures/concepts/framework that enables Novartis to achieve functional excellence, while maintaining a key focus on value creation, processes, data, systems, and operating model optimization.

About the Role

#LI-Hybrid

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Major Accountabilities

·Strategic Leadership:

  • Execute, and govern the LDC strategy aligned with Novartis’ vision.
  • Implements approaches and frameworks in collaboration with LDC Release Management, Core Enablement, Adopt and other functional workstreams and other Core Functions.
  • Foster a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the program.
  • Manage workstream KPIs and data & information requirements for their workstream, in coordination with the Program team.

·Cross-Functional Collaboration:

  • Work closely with other Functional workstreams, LDC Core Enablement, Adopt, GPOs, and Enterprise Data Owners (EDOs) to align on data management efforts.
  • Champion cross-functional integration topics and dependencies.

·Approaches, Standards and Governance:

  • Manage all Design activities from Scoping to Build including Training.
  • Accountable to ensure Standardization objectives are met.
  • Release Scoping and F2C Activities for upcoming LDC releases: Coordinate the scoping of releases and ensure smooth transition from concept to delivery.
  • Program Test Management: Implement testing approaches and oversee testing activities across projects.
  • Lead functional Integration business scenarios and implement approach coordination across, Adopt and countries/sites/NOCCs.
  • Ensure NFCM matrix accurately reflects the standardized business processes as per LDC, and evaluate opportunities to minimize redundancies (i.e., leaner control matrix)
  • Ensure integration between Business and IT Controls topics, to enhance efficiency of compliance mainly in relation to IT Application Controls (NFCM / SOX relevant applications, interfaces, etc.).
  • Support developing, mapping, and governing a common global customer-oriented process design based on aligned user requirements.
  • Security and Access/profiles Governance: Develop and maintain security concepts and access controls. Ensure compliance with industry standards and internal guidelines.
  • Retrofit of Releases: Manage and define actions to ensure the retrofit for existing live LDC releases.
  • Triggered projects: regularly report on triggered projects, milestones, and performance metrics as per delivery model.

Key Performance Indicators / Measures of Success

  • Delivery of key milestones of the program on time, in quality and within budget, with full buy-in and support of country and global teams
  • Establishment and achievement on key program milestones and KPIs on time, with quality and within budget
  • Effectiveness of standardization and processes and master data
  • Customer satisfaction with decision support, early warnings, special projects/tasks
  • No critical findings in audits and inspections
  • Value realization
  • Development of talent, ensuring retention and succession planning in place, employee satisfaction

Requirements

 

Education & Qualifications

 
  • Bachelor university degree or higher.

Languages

 
  • English as necessary and additional language(s) preferred.

Experiences

 
  • At least 5+ years of senior management experience, ideally in a country general management role and/or senior management in a regional or global team.
  • Proven experience in managing Projects, Programs, Business Process Transitions, Migrations & change Management with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Ability to engage, influence and drive change with senior stakeholders.

Technical/Functional Skills & Knowledge

  • Expert level expertise in commercial contracting, rebating and revenue deduction forecasting processes with transactional customers (wholesalers, hospitals, pharmacies) across entire contract lifecycle in the pharmaceutical industry including:
    • Defining, and developing contract (front end) and revenue (back end) architectures
    • Defining contract & claims types (including claims maintenance, disputes & deduction management processes)
    • Defining and determining all condition types related to condition contracts (on and off invoice, inclusion / exclusion rules)
    • Defining contract/revenue lifecycle related reports
  • Super user level of experience in Vistex contract, pricing and revenue management module or alternatively in S4/HANA Sales & Distribution module (SD)
  • Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.
  • Able to leverage networks of professionals across functions and business areas.
  • Understands the competing organizational needs beyond own part of business.
  • Able to interpret complex information and to influence internal and external peers.
  • Role model for Novartis’ values and behaviors within the organization with ability to motivate and develop people.

Why Novartis: Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

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Spain & Spain
Barcelona Gran Vía
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Full time
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