ED, Engine Lead (2 Positions)
Novartis
August 24, 2026
On-site
East Hanover, NJ
IT
Key Responsibilities:
- Define the Engine vision, strategic objectives, outcome measures, and value realization framework.
- Own the integrated roadmap, aligning priorities, dependencies, resources, and execution across teams.
- Lead end-to-end workflow redesign to improve customer, associate, and business outcomes.
- Drive cross-functional transformation across business, technology, data, and enabling functions.
- Establish governance, decision rights, and escalation pathways to accelerate delivery and remove barriers.
- Monitor adoption, business impact, risks, and milestones, implementing corrective actions as needed.
- Influence enterprise portfolio decisions through evidence-based recommendations and prioritization.
- Build alignment and accountability among senior leaders, sponsors, and transformation partners.
- Lead implementation, stabilization, scaling, and continuous improvement of Engine initiatives.
- Capture and share best practices, reusable assets, and lessons learned across transformation programs.
Essential Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (business, life sciences, healthcare, strategy, technology, engineering, organizational transformation, or related). MBA/MS/MPH/PharmD or equivalent preferred.
- 12+ years of progressive experience in enterprise transformation, commercial strategy, operating model redesign, product/digital transformation, management consulting, or complex cross-functional program leadership.
- Experience integrating business, technology, data, workflow, and adoption in pharma/biotech/health tech, consulting, Big Tech, or scaled digital/product organizations.
- Proven success delivering large-scale transformation from problem framing through measurable value realization.
- Experience defining business outcomes, value cases, roadmaps, decision rights, governance, milestones, dependencies, and benefit owners across matrixed teams.
- Strong understanding of US commercial healthcare/pharma dynamics.
- Ability to lead senior stakeholders without direct authority and make trade-offs across value, risk, capacity, readiness, compliance, and scalability.
Desirable Requirements:
- Prior accountability for AI, automation, data-product, customer-experience, field-model, or workflow-reinvention initiatives.
- Experience managing transformation investment, vendor capacity, and value tracking with Finance, Technology, P&O, Legal, Ethics, Risk & Compliance, and business functions.
- Define the Engine vision, strategic objectives, outcome measures, and value realization framework.
- Own the integrated roadmap, aligning priorities, dependencies, resources, and execution across teams.
- Lead end-to-end workflow redesign to improve customer, associate, and business outcomes.
- Drive cross-functional transformation across business, technology, data, and enabling functions.
- Establish governance, decision rights, and escalation pathways to accelerate delivery and remove barriers.
- Monitor adoption, business impact, risks, and milestones, implementing corrective actions as needed.
- Influence enterprise portfolio decisions through evidence-based recommendations and prioritization.
- Build alignment and accountability among senior leaders, sponsors, and transformation partners.
- Lead implementation, stabilization, scaling, and continuous improvement of Engine initiatives.
- Capture and share best practices, reusable assets, and lessons learned across transformation programs.
Essential Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (business, life sciences, healthcare, strategy, technology, engineering, organizational transformation, or related). MBA/MS/MPH/PharmD or equivalent preferred.
- 12+ years of progressive experience in enterprise transformation, commercial strategy, operating model redesign, product/digital transformation, management consulting, or complex cross-functional program leadership.
- Experience integrating business, technology, data, workflow, and adoption in pharma/biotech/health tech, consulting, Big Tech, or scaled digital/product organizations.
- Proven success delivering large-scale transformation from problem framing through measurable value realization.
- Experience defining business outcomes, value cases, roadmaps, decision rights, governance, milestones, dependencies, and benefit owners across matrixed teams.
- Strong understanding of US commercial healthcare/pharma dynamics.
- Ability to lead senior stakeholders without direct authority and make trade-offs across value, risk, capacity, readiness, compliance, and scalability.
Desirable Requirements:
- Prior accountability for AI, automation, data-product, customer-experience, field-model, or workflow-reinvention initiatives.
- Experience managing transformation investment, vendor capacity, and value tracking with Finance, Technology, P&O, Legal, Ethics, Risk & Compliance, and business functions.