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Project Manager, IT Procurement

Novartis
Hyderabad, IND
Full-time
Manager · 10+ years experience
Hybrid
Discovered 2 weeks ago

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Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead the end-to-end delivery of multiple complex Procurement technology projects, from demand intake and planning through deployment, adoption and operational transition.
  • Ensure projects are delivered within agreed scope, timelines and budgets, with clear ownership, accountability and alignment with business objectives, technology roadmaps and architecture standards.
  • Act as the primary interface between Procurement stakeholders and technology delivery teams, translating business requirements into scalable and sustainable solutions.
  • Identify opportunities to simplify processes, increase automation and accelerate the adoption of digital and AI-enabled Procurement capabilities.
  • Establish and maintain effective project governance, including project plans, milestones, dependencies, critical paths, resource requirements, approvals and quality documentation.
  • Proactively manage risks, issues, dependencies, decisions and change requests, ensuring timely escalation and effective mitigation.
  • Manage external delivery partners, including consulting firms, software providers, system integrators and implementation vendors, against contractual commitments, milestones and deliverables.
  • Support vendor sourcing and contracting activities, including requests for information, requests for proposals and contract preparation.
  • Manage project budgets, forecasts and financial reporting, monitoring actual expenditure against plans and identifying potential risks, variances and savings opportunities.
  • Contribute to Procurement technology portfolio planning, prioritization, investment decisions and continuous improvement.
  • Essential Requirements:
  • 10+ years of experience in IT project or program management within complex enterprise environments.
  • Proven experience delivering large-scale, global technology projects involving multiple vendors, functions and business stakeholders.
  • Experience delivering Procurement, ERP, SaaS, or enterprise platform implementations.
  • Strong understanding of Procurement and Source-to-Pay processes, with the ability to connect technology decisions to business outcomes and value realization.
  • Deep knowledge of project and program management methodologies, governance, planning, dependency management and execution.
  • Demonstrated experience managing project budgets, forecasts, resources, risks, issues and vendor management and vendor performance.
  • Strong stakeholder management, negotiation, facilitation and conflict-resolution skills within a complex matrix organization.
  • Excellent communication skills, including experience preparing executive-level updates, steering committee materials and decision summaries.
  • Desirable requirements:
  • Experience working in a regulated business environment.
  • Exposure to AI-enabled business solutions, process automation, digital Procurement transformation or emerging Procurement technologies
  • Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:
  • We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.
  • Why Novartis? Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us! Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
  • Join our Novartis Network: If this role is not suitable to your experience or career goals but you wish to stay connected to learn more about Novartis and our career opportunities, join the Novartis Network here: https://talentnetwork.novartis.com/network Accessibility and accommodation: Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to all individuals. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to receive more detailed information about the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.
  • Skills Desired
  • Analytical Thinking, Business Acumen, Business Value Creation, Financial Modeling, Requirements Analysis, Requirements Gathering, Stakeholder Management
  • Why Novartis?
  • Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us! Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
  • Join our Novartis Network: If this role is not suitable to your experience or career goals but you wish to stay connected to learn more about Novartis and our career opportunities, join the Novartis Network here: https://talentnetwork.novartis.com/network
  • Accessibility and accommodation:
  • Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to all individuals. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to receive more detailed information about the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.

Qualifications

  • Analytical Thinking, Business Acumen, Business Value Creation, Financial Modeling, Requirements Analysis, Requirements Gathering, Stakeholder Management
  • 10+ years of experience in IT project or program management within complex enterprise environments.
  • Proven experience delivering large-scale, global technology projects involving multiple vendors, functions and business stakeholders.
  • Experience delivering Procurement, ERP, SaaS, or enterprise platform implementations.
  • Strong understanding of Procurement and Source-to-Pay processes, with the ability to connect technology decisions to business outcomes and value realization.
  • Deep knowledge of project and program management methodologies, governance, planning, dependency management and execution.
  • Demonstrated experience managing project budgets, forecasts, resources, risks, issues and vendor management and vendor performance.
  • Strong stakeholder management, negotiation, facilitation and conflict-resolution skills within a complex matrix organization.
  • Excellent communication skills, including experience preparing executive-level updates, steering committee materials and decision summaries.
  • Experience working in a regulated business environment.
  • Exposure to AI-enabled business solutions, process automation, digital Procurement transformation or emerging Procurement technologies
  • We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.
  • Why Novartis?
  • Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us! Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
  • Join our Novartis Network: If this role is not suitable to your experience or career goals but you wish to stay connected to learn more about Novartis and our career opportunities, join the Novartis Network here: https://talentnetwork.novartis.com/network
  • Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to all individuals. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to receive more detailed information about the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.

Preferred Qualifications

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  • Skills Desired

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