Entry level role in customer program management at Celestica, providing support to customer focus teams. Responsibilities include managing orders, reporting, and maintaining customer communication.
About the role
- Manager leading consulting and program management initiatives at Novartis in Prague, focusing on transformational programs across the International Business Unit.
Responsibilities
- Scope, design, and structure priority programs , translating business needs into clear plans, deliverables, and outcomes.
- Lead and coordinate cross functional and cross market teams to deliver strategic initiatives through robust execution
- Define and embed program governance , including leadership forums, workstream reviews, decision making criteria, calendar & agenda setting, pre-read preparation and tracking follow-up actions.
- Maintain the Integrated Master Plan , ensuring visibility on milestones, dependencies, release timelines, and rollout activities.
- Manage RAID and risk frameworks , drive proactive risk management, issue resolution, and ensure effective dependency management across teams.
- Track market readiness and rollout progress including all key checkpoints including testing, data migration and deployment preparation in collaboration with program leads and change and communication leads.
- Provide high quality reporting and insights through dashboards, KPIs, and status updates for leadership.
- Support team building capabilities initiatives including greater depth of functional / commercial topics and our core capabilities (covering Consulting, Program Management and Learning) with focus on strengthening our PMO capabilities, enhancing templates, tools, workflows, and best practices across the organization.
- Build strong stakeholder relationships and role model structured ways of working, collaboration, and BSI’s “One Team, Shared Impact” and culture.
Requirements
- 5+ years’ experience supporting large, complex programs end-to-end, ideally in a consulting, transformation or cross-market environment, preferably with a focus on commercial and / or pharma industry experience.
- Strong program and PMO skillset including planning, RAID management, reporting, governance, and structured delivery in all types of environments (waterfall, agile or hybrid) mostly with virtual teams.
- Hands-on experience with Agile/SAFe delivery environments and business squad -> product -> IT delivery models.
- Proficiency in PMO tools
- Proven ability to collaborate across diverse functions and manage senior stakeholders.
- Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Minimum of a bachelor’s degree, preferably in science, engineering, business administration or economics.
Benefits
- Read our handbook to learn about all the ways we’ll help you thrive personally and professionally: https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards
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