Associate Director / Technical Product Manager

· This experienced product lead will be accountable for business partnering for one of the CGT products - CellChain Pro or CellCompass, and other CGT initiatives across the globe.
· Accountable for end-to-end project delivery in the given sub-domain/sub-capability.
· Partner with Business Stakeholders and delivery teams for demand analysis, solution proposal/evaluation and project delivery
· Act as an advisor providing guidance to improve global business processes, products, services, and software through data analysis.
· Engage with global business leaders and leverage the appropriate IT teams and Functions to determine requirements and deliver data-driven recommendations to improve efficiency and add value.
Major accountabilities:
· Own stakeholder management and strategic business partnering to drive product roadmap and support funding/budgeting decisions.
· Manage IT relationships with internal IT partners such as Salesforce COE and SAP to drive integrations
· Ensure consistency and traceability between user requirements, functional specifications, and testing and validation.
· Support validation and testing as appropriate and ensure adherence to Security and Compliance policies and procedures within Service Delivery scope.
· Keep abreast with internal IT systems and documentation requirements, standards (including quality management and IT security), regulatory environments / requirements (if applicable), IT Service Portfolio and with industry best practices in leveraging technologies for the business and taking advantage of reusable products, solutions and services wherever applicable

· Experience IT business analyst with experience in business requirements analysis
· IT business partnership: Stakeholder relationship, Building new business cases, Building portfolio of projects, Manage ongoing demand
· Experience in productization at global scale
· Experience in Agile & and DevOps practice knowledge
· Enterprise mindset, end to end delivery in matrixed organization at enterprise level
· Strong communication skills with proficiency in English (written and oral)
Nice to have:
· Understanding of salesforce and SAP tech
· Experience in implementing patient focused capabilities
· Commercial IT experience
· Knowledge of project management models and techniques
Location: Barcelona #LI-Hybrid
Novartis is unable to offer relocation support for this role: please only apply if this location is accessible for you.