Imagine shaping the future of cloud and hosting services at a global healthcare leader. As Associate Director, DDIT IES CHS Delivery Excellence, you will drive strategic portfolio governance, delivery excellence, and transformation initiatives across cloud, hosting, and emerging Artificial Intelligence infrastructure capabilities. Working with senior leaders and cross‑functional teams, you will turn complex technology investments into measurable business outcomes, enabling innovation, operational excellence, and digital transformation that ultimately helps reimagine medicine for millions of patients worldwide.
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- Location: Prague, Czech Republic
- Relocation Support: This role is based in Prague, Czech Republic. Novartis is unable to offer relocation support: please only apply if accessible.
Key Responsibilities
- Govern Cloud & Hosting Services portfolios, tracking outcomes, milestones, risks, dependencies, and transformation progress.
- Lead governance forums and executive reviews to drive prioritization, accountability, and informed decision‑making.
- Establish delivery excellence standards, controls, and escalation mechanisms across technology initiatives.
- Partner across engineering, operations, architecture, security, finance, and procurement to resolve delivery challenges.
- Develop executive dashboards, key performance indicators, and reporting frameworks that improve portfolio transparency.
- Drive process simplification, automation, and standardization initiatives to enhance operational efficiency.
- Build organizational capabilities through mentoring, training, communities of practice, and knowledge sharing.
- Lead innovation programs, ideation workshops, and strategic incubation initiatives from concept to execution.
- Develop and challenge business cases, investment proposals, and strategic transformation opportunities.
- Support portfolio planning, budgeting, forecasting, and investment reviews while promoting commercial accountability.
Essential Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 15+ years of extensive experience leading program management, portfolio governance, or technology transformation initiatives.
- Proven success delivering large‑scale technology transformation programs in complex global environments.
- Strong executive stakeholder management, influencing, and communication skills across business and technology leaders.
- Experience establishing governance frameworks, performance metrics, reporting disciplines, and delivery excellence standards.
- Strong financial acumen with experience in budgeting, forecasting, investment planning, and portfolio governance.
- Ability to translate complex technical initiatives into measurable business outcomes and executive value propositions.
- Knowledge of cloud infrastructure environments such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
Desirable Requirements
- Experience working within regulated industries, preferably pharmaceutical, healthcare, or life sciences environments.
- Knowledge of Artificial Intelligence infrastructure, platform engineering, or enterprise innovation ecosystems.
Rewards
- Expected Annual Base Salary Range for role: 1,120,210.00 - 2,080,390.00 CZK.
- Additional performance‑based bonus potential.
- Comprehensive benefits package including pension contribution, insurance, holiday, sick days, cafeteria benefits, meal vouchers, public transportation allowance, and more.
- Job Type: Full time
- Location: Prague, Czech Republic