AD, Engine Delivery Lead (6 Positions)
Novartis
August 24, 2026
On-site
East Hanover, NJ
IT
Key Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain integrated delivery plans, milestones, critical paths, dependencies, and deployment roadmaps.
- Translate strategic objectives into executable workstreams, ownership, and measurable delivery commitments.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure alignment, accountability, and seamless execution across initiatives.
- Lead delivery governance forums and provide decision-focused updates to stakeholders and leadership.
- Monitor progress, risks, issues, dependencies, and capacity; proactively address execution challenges.
- Drive disciplined follow-through across business, data, technology, finance, people, and external partner teams.
- Facilitate transitions across discovery, design, build, validation, deployment, and scaling phases.
- Assess delivery readiness, resource sufficiency, and milestone achievement.
- Develop and implement recovery plans when scope, timelines, quality, or risks threaten delivery objectives.
- Capture lessons learned, improve delivery standards, and support vendor performance and operational excellence.
Essential Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in business, life sciences, healthcare, operations, technology, engineering, analytics, or related discipline.
- 6+ years’ experience in program/project delivery, transformation execution, PMO, commercial operations, consulting, technology delivery, product operations, or cross-functional initiative management.
- Experience in pharma/biotech/healthcare/tech/consulting or regulated delivery environments.
- Experience building integrated plans (milestone maps, critical paths, decision calendars, dependency logs, risk/issue registers, release plans, governance materials).
- Ability to coordinate multidisciplinary teams across functions/vendors without replacing specialist ownership.
- Ability to pressure-test delivery realism, resources, dependencies, evidence quality, and stage-gate preparedness.
- Strong written, analytical, and facilitation skills.
Desirable Requirements:
- Experience with Agile/SAFe, Scrum, Jira, Smartsheet, MS Project, Power BI, Excel, PowerPoint, Copilot, or other execution/reporting tools.
- Experience supporting vendor performance management, recovery planning, release/deployment sequencing, and adoption-informed delivery adjustments.
- Build and maintain integrated delivery plans, milestones, critical paths, dependencies, and deployment roadmaps.
- Translate strategic objectives into executable workstreams, ownership, and measurable delivery commitments.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure alignment, accountability, and seamless execution across initiatives.
- Lead delivery governance forums and provide decision-focused updates to stakeholders and leadership.
- Monitor progress, risks, issues, dependencies, and capacity; proactively address execution challenges.
- Drive disciplined follow-through across business, data, technology, finance, people, and external partner teams.
- Facilitate transitions across discovery, design, build, validation, deployment, and scaling phases.
- Assess delivery readiness, resource sufficiency, and milestone achievement.
- Develop and implement recovery plans when scope, timelines, quality, or risks threaten delivery objectives.
- Capture lessons learned, improve delivery standards, and support vendor performance and operational excellence.
Essential Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in business, life sciences, healthcare, operations, technology, engineering, analytics, or related discipline.
- 6+ years’ experience in program/project delivery, transformation execution, PMO, commercial operations, consulting, technology delivery, product operations, or cross-functional initiative management.
- Experience in pharma/biotech/healthcare/tech/consulting or regulated delivery environments.
- Experience building integrated plans (milestone maps, critical paths, decision calendars, dependency logs, risk/issue registers, release plans, governance materials).
- Ability to coordinate multidisciplinary teams across functions/vendors without replacing specialist ownership.
- Ability to pressure-test delivery realism, resources, dependencies, evidence quality, and stage-gate preparedness.
- Strong written, analytical, and facilitation skills.
Desirable Requirements:
- Experience with Agile/SAFe, Scrum, Jira, Smartsheet, MS Project, Power BI, Excel, PowerPoint, Copilot, or other execution/reporting tools.
- Experience supporting vendor performance management, recovery planning, release/deployment sequencing, and adoption-informed delivery adjustments.