Program Manager DDIT x-Dev Initiatives

Summary

Location : Barcelona, Spain or Hyderabad, India

Relocation Support : Novartis is unable to offer relocation support : please only apply if accessible.

Ready to orchestrate enterprise-scale transformation In this role, you will unite cross-functional teams across our xVault platform to harmonize planning, decision-making, and execution—accelerating value, quality, and compliance across Development. You will shape the Novartis xVault Center of Excellence (CoE), build reusable practices and onboarding playbooks, and embed platform standards through thoughtful governance. If you thrive on influencing without direct authority, clarifying complex dependencies, and turning strategic roadmaps into measurable outcomes that ultimately benefit patients, this is your next step.

About The Role

MAJOR ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Shape and evolve the NxV CoE vision, strategy, and operating model
• Establish the CoE charter, service catalog (e.g., standards, design authority, enablement), and operating rhythms.
• Work on maturity roadmap and definition of Operating Model Long term strategy.
• Build foundational practices for knowledge management, reusable assets, and onboarding / playbooks.
• Periodically review market / industry trends to inform continuous evolution of the operating model.
• Serve as IT lead for crossVault governance and platformwide consistency
• Stand up governance forums (e.g., steering, design authority, change control), with defined cadences and agendas.
• Set decision criteria and RACI; implement transparent decision logs, escalation paths, and traceability to outcomes.
• Ensure adherence to platform standards and guardrails (e.g., configuration conventions, integration patterns, environment and release policies) to reduce duplication and risk.
• Ensure harmonized policies across Vaults to enable interoperability and promote platformwide improvements by prioritizing shared capabilities, resolving crossVault conflicts, and retiring legacy duplication.
• Lead integrated planning across crossVault teams
• Build and maintain multilevel roadmaps (strategy, portfolio, release) and dependency maps across teams and functions.
• Facilitate integrated planning events; align priorities, scope, and sequencing; resolve resource / contention tradeoffs.
• Coordinate release trains and cutover strategies across Vaults to minimize disruption and ensure adoption readiness.
• Implement capacity planning and scenario analysis; forecast demand versus supply and recommend adjustments.
• Define and track milestone health, risks / issues, and crossteam deliverables with clear entry / exit criteria.
• Provide Delivery Excellence oversight across techenabled transformation across Development.
• Formalize delivery excellence practices and knowledge exchange across Development space
• Monitor delivery health (e.g., scope, schedule, budget, quality); surface trends and corrective actions.
• Establish Communities of Practice and crossfunctional forums to share best practices, patterns, and lessons learned.
• Create standardized delivery playbooks & set of practices (e.g., Definition of Ready / Done, risk & issue management, change control).
• Partner with business, quality, data, and security teams to ensure compliance, traceability, and risk management.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement using data and feedback
• Delivery or oversight of different xDev initiatives to ensure consistency, efficiency and complex interdependencies management

Essential Requirements

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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Commitment To Diversity & Inclusion

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

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

Join our Novartis Network : Not the right Novartis role for you Sign up to our talent community to stay connected and learn about suitable career opportunities as soon as they come up : https : / / talentnetwork.novartis.com / network

Benefits and Rewards : Read our handbook to learn about all the ways we'll help you thrive personally and professionally : https : / / www.novartis.com / careers / benefits-rewards

Skills Required

Risk Management