Group Lead

Job Description

With 64 manufacturing sites in 26 countries, our aspiration is to become the top manu-facturer of innovative and generic medicines in the industry. Creates and drives the NTO learning development strategy, ensuring the provision of high quali-ty, effective learning programs to support building individual and organisational capabilities, in partnership with the content owners. Builds and establishes the Learning Development Team for NTO. Leads the NTO Training & Learning team in the Hyderabad Operations Center.Your responsibilities:Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Lead the NTO Training & Learning team in the Hyderabad Operations Center; represent T&L in the Hyderabad Ops Center LT. Build and lead the Learning Development Team, ensuring effective on-boarding of an appropriate skills mix covering instructional design, e-learning development, technical and GxP training. Represent the Learning Development Team, and the Hyderabad team, in the NTO T&L Leadership Team. Establish, implement and continually improve learning development processes and standards, to ensure that learning programs are aligned with business needs and deliver the defined outcomes. Ensure appropriate collaboration across end-to-end process. Create and manage the NTO learning program development portfolio (3-5 years planning horizon). Drive the creation of a Learning Catalogue for NTO, manage and maintain the data. Manage on time and on budget delivery of learning programs and ensure clear communication with all involved stakeholders. Oversee vendor selection and manage chosen vendors to ensure appropriate use of resources to design, develop and/or deliver learning programs. Lead the provision of learning programs to improve technical and functional capabilities, applying adult learning principles and instructional design to ensure defined business and learning outcomes are achieved. Drive the process of measuring knowledge retention, on-the-job transfer and learning impact while ensuring alignment with the capability and business requirements. Develop, implement, and maintain evaluation strategies to measure and report on the effectiveness of global learning programs. Acquire and apply leading edge expertise in learning methods and/or technologies, develop and disseminate best practices within the learning community. Key Performance Indicators Feedback from stakeholders, customer groups and management is better than good ; position is seen as the expert for learning related topics for NTO Timeliness and quality of deliverables according to established directives Evaluation to the agreed level is implemented and indicates effective learningEEO Statement Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse team s representative of the patients and communities we serve.Minimum requirements What you ll bring to the role:Subordinate Functions: Number of Associates: Direct: 3-5 Financial responsibility : Responsible for the NTO Learning Development budgetImpact on the organization Key to support NTO in the development of individual and organizational capabilities through the provision of effective learning solutions for business requirements.Ideal Background Education: BSc in Life Sciences, Behavioural or Educational Sciences Instructional Design certification or proven experience Experiences: 14-16 years in training/learning 8-10 years in Pharmaceutical industry, preferably in production Specific Professional Competencies Soft Skills: Strategic thinking, planning and execution; business savvy Consulting, facilitation and business partnering skills Ability to work with a cross-functional, cross-cultural team within a matrix organization Strong customer service orientation Professional: Project management, experience of managing multiple complex projects at the same time Knowledge of adult learning theory and practice; knowledge of learning effectiveness evaluation methodologies (Kirkpatrick etc) Proficiency in rapid development e learning tools, such as Articulate Storyline, Captive etc, would be advantageous Leadership: Demonstrates strong self-awareness and continually seeks feedback to support own development Demonstrates empathetic servant-leadership, building an effective and motivated teamWhy Novartis 769 million lives were touched by Novartis medicines in 2020, and while we re proud of this, we know there is so much more we could do to help improve and extend people s lives.We believe new insights, perspectives and ground-breaking solutions can be found at the intersection of medical science and digital innovation. That a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment inspires new ways of working. We believe our potential can thrive and grow in an unbossed culture underpinned by integrity, curiosity and flexibility. And we can reinvent whats possible, when we collaborate with courage to aggressively and ambitiously tackle the world s toughest medical challenges. Because the greatest risk in life, is the risk of never trying!Imagine what you could do here at Novartis!Join our Novartis Network: If this role is not suitable to your experience or career goals but you wish to stay connected to hear more about Novartis and our career opportunities, join the Novartis Network here: https://talentnetwork.novartis.com/network,

Keyskills :
customer servicemanagementreportingcustomer relationsadult learning theorykey performance indicatorscontinuous improvement facilitationlife scienceslearning theoryvendor selectionstatements of work sow