Simplification Officer in München bei Novartis

The simplification officer's main purpose is to simplify the German Novartis organization by identifying opportunities, implementing initiatives, and anchoring simplification in the minds of all associates. This position is part of the team Staff & Strategic Projects and reports directly to Chief of Staff & Strategic Projects

Major accountabilities:

• Build and maintain a backlog of initiatives, including the assessment of these initiatives by liaising with business process owners and a selected network of associates (e.g., FF, Medical, Assistants)

• Lead and deliver selected simplification projects within and across the relevant departments (e.g., CCO, BE&E, Medical, P&O, Finance) and manage internal and external delivery teams

• Prepare decisions and updates, and present them to relevant boards within the scope of the simplification initiatives (e.g., IM-LT, SLT, TA Board, Ops Board)

• Serve as local business process excellence (BPE) champion, managing the relationship between the global team and local opportunities

• Stay current with recent technological trends and actively bring innovation to the process owners (e.g., Microsoft Power BI Platform, Generative AI)

• Communication & change management

• Ensure regular communication of successes and challenges via country-wide and other appropriate channels (e.g., MuvOn, Viva Engage)

• Maintain regular contact with senior leadership (e.g., CFO, Head BE&E) to keep them informed on progress and incorporate their inputs into simplification initiatives

• Maintain regular contact with above-country and operations stakeholders

• Inspire the organization to be passionate, creative, and innovative in our approach to SIMPLIFICATION and be the cultural change agents striving for excellence

Essential requirements:

• University degree in business, economics or comparable, with a focus on management and project realization, or Life Sciences

• English: fluent written and spoken

• Solid experience in the pharma industry in Marketing, Medical or Operations

• Strong ability to navigate a matrix organisation, to influence and to deliver impact, to build collaborative partnerships and x-functional teams

• Confident appearance towards internal and external business partners

• Portfolio of projects, where Agile and other project management methodologies have been used, is required

• Track record of applying Lean, Six Sigma or comparable process improvement methodologies is advantageous

• Excellence in driving innovative approaches to challenges in a fast-paced, changing global environment is required

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

You’ll receive:

You can find everything you need to know about our benefits and rewards in the Novartis Life Handbook: https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse team’s representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Hiring decisions are only based on the qualification for the position, regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age and disability.

The law provides for severely disabled / equal applicants the opportunity to involve the local representative body for disabled employees (SBV) in the application process. If you

would like to request this, please let us know in advance as a note on your CV.

Adjustments for Applicants with Disabilities:

The law provides for severely disabled / equal applicants the opportunity to involve the local representative body for disabled employees (SBV) in the application process. If you would like to request this, please let us know in advance as a note on your CV.

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