Director, Data Management Office
Novartis
Summary
Data is one of the most powerful drivers of innovation, and this is your opportunity to help shape how it delivers value across Novartis. As Director, Data Management Office, you will play a critical role in transforming strategic data priorities into measurable business outcomes. In this highly visible leadership role, you will drive portfolio governance, demand prioritization, resource planning, and delivery excellence across the Data Governance & Data Management Office. Working with senior leaders and cross-functional teams, you will bring transparency, structure, and strategic focus to complex initiatives that accelerate innovation and strengthen how data creates value across the organization.
Job description
Key Responsibilities
- Lead demand intake, prioritization, and governance processes across the Data Governance and Data Management Office.
- Develop a consolidated portfolio view of initiatives, data products, and business priorities.
- Partner with leaders to align capacity, resources, timelines, and delivery commitments.
- Drive prioritization decisions based on business value, risk, strategy, and organizational capacity.
- Establish executive dashboards and reporting that enable informed, timely decision-making.
- Monitor portfolio performance, delivery health, resource utilization, and key milestones.
- Identify and escalate risks, dependencies, blockers, and critical decisions requiring leadership support.
- Lead governance forums, portfolio reviews, and cross-functional planning discussions.
- Standardize tools, templates, reporting routines, and program management best practices.
- Drive continuous improvement to enhance transparency, delivery predictability, and operational excellence.
Essential Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Data Management, Engineering, Finance, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in program management, portfolio management, demand management, PMO leadership, data transformation, technology delivery, or enterprise operations. In Pharm OR Life Sciences experience would be preferred.
- Proven success managing complex cross-functional initiatives with multiple stakeholders, dependencies, and delivery teams.
- Strong expertise in demand management, prioritization, capacity planning, portfolio reporting, and governance.
- Experience creating executive dashboards, performance metrics, milestone tracking, and portfolio health reporting.
- Ability to analyze delivery performance, resource capacity, risks, and execution trends to drive decisions.
- Exceptional stakeholder management, communication, facilitation, and influencing skills across senior leadership teams.
- Experience working within data governance, data management, analytics, technology, or enterprise transformation environments.
Desirable Requirements
- Professional certification in Program Management, Agile, Scrum, Lean, or Portfolio Management preferred.
- Experience supporting enterprise data governance, analytics, compliance, or large-scale transformation initiatives preferred.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Data Management, Engineering, Finance, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in program management, portfolio management, demand management, PMO leadership, data transformation, technology delivery, or enterprise operations.
- Proven success managing complex cross-functional initiatives with multiple stakeholders, dependencies, and delivery teams.
- Strong expertise in demand management, prioritization, capacity planning, portfolio reporting, and governance.
- Experience creating executive dashboards, performance metrics, milestone tracking, and portfolio health reporting.
- Ability to analyze delivery performance, resource capacity, risks, and execution trends to drive decisions.
- Exceptional stakeholder management, communication, facilitation, and influencing skills across senior leadership teams.
- Experience working within data governance, data management, analytics, technology, or enterprise transformation environments.
- Professional certification in Program Management, Agile, Scrum, Lean, or Portfolio Management preferred.
- Experience supporting enterprise data governance, analytics, compliance, or large-scale transformation initiatives preferred.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Disability benefits
- 401(k) with company contribution and match
- Performance-based cash incentive
- Annual equity awards
- Vacation
- Personal days
- Holidays
Company overview
Novartis is a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, dedicated to reimagining medicine to improve and extend people's lives. As an innovative medicines company, Novartis focuses on developing high-value treatments that address society's greatest disease burdens through technology leadership in research and development. The company operates across five core therapeutic areas: cardiovascular, renal and metabolic diseases; immunology; neuroscience; oncology; and hematology. With a workforce of approximately 75,883 employees worldwide, Novartis reaches nearly 300 million patients across 118 countries. The company leverages advanced technology platforms including targeted protein degradation, cell therapy, gene therapy, radioligand therapy, and xRNA to develop breakthrough treatments. Novartis maintains a strong portfolio of oncology drugs and generics while continuously expanding its pipeline through strategic acquisitions and internal research. The company's commitment extends beyond drug development to ensuring global access to medical innovations through novel access approaches and patient assistance programs.