Program Management Office Manager

Job Description

276734BR

Job Description

The PMO supports the Procurement leadership team by leading cross-category and cross-divisional activities that drive maximum productivity, properly allocate procurement resources, drive effective strategy and tactics and ensure professional communication and execution of procurement projects and activities globally. Your responsibilities: Creating Procurement vision based on insights into procurement leading practices and experience in strategy development. Linking Procurement strategy to Novartis overall strategy and conveying it clearly to the organization. Mapping the value chain, analyzing it and deriving potential scenarios. Includes the understanding and application of total cost of ownership, and should cost modelling. Expertise in the respective category market levers, trends and main players as well as internal processes. Deriving game-changing strategies by defining clear category objectives, working with analytical data, business stakeholders and market expertise. Aligning strategies to measurable target and clearly conveying them to the organization. Compliance & risk management: supporting reports to determine appropriate compliance level. Monitoring end-to-end compliance and deriving corrective actions to improve compliance. Applying risk management processes including identifying and evaluating risks, and defining and executing a risk mitigation plan. Managing data analysis and reporting. Extracting, cleansing and consolidating information to fact-based insights for further usage e.g. in category strategies. Ability to navigate procurement tools. Expertize in the procurement data structure and procurement classification system for material, services, and suppliers. Procurement KPIs (performance, price and demand development): excellent in navigating in Procurement KPIs related to market insights, price and demand development as well as procurements performance. Project management & planning: planning, organizing and managing projects taking into account priorities, resources, budgets, issues and constraints to achieve desired results; defining clear project scope and objectives; utilizing software and tools to plan, track and report status. Change management: Embracing and shaping change as well as knowledge how to overcome challenges. Applying systematic change management methods to facilitate change. Relationship management and business partnering: achieving results by proactively building long-term, sustainable and effective relationships, understanding the stakeholder landscape and demonstrating political astuteness across business structures and networks.

Minimum requirements

What you ll bring to the role: University/Advanced degree is required. Fluent spoken and written English. Other foreign languages as required. 5-7 years of experience working in large international company. 3-5 years of relevant business experience. Experience with procurement operations and project management. Experience with Contract management tools, eSourcing tools (e.g SAP Ariba) and ERP requisition tools. Experience in reporting & analytical tools (SAP BW, MS Access and MS Excel). Experience in managing diverse teams. Why consider Novartis 750 million. That s how many lives our products touch. And while we re proud of that fact, in this world of digital and technological transformation, we must also ask ourselves this: how can we continue to improve and extend even more people s lives We believe the answers are found when curious, courageous and collaborative people like you are brought together in an inspiring environment. Where you re given opportunities to explore the power of digital and data. Where you re empowered to risk failure by taking smart risks, and where you re surrounded by people who share your determination to tackle the world s toughest medical challenges. We are Novartis. Join us and help us reimagine medicine. Novartis is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons.

Division

NBS

Business Unit

PROCUREMENT NBS

Country

India

Work Location

Hyderabad, AP

Keyskills :
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