AD, Engine Delivery Lead (6 Positions)

About the role

Novartis is hiring six AD, Engine Delivery Leads for its East Hanover, NJ site, which is not open to remote work and requires travel as defined by the business. The role leads cross-functional teams that turn business strategies into measurable outcomes across business, technology, data and organizational change.

Key responsibilities

• Build and maintain integrated delivery plans, milestones, critical paths, dependencies and deployment roadmaps.
• Translate strategic objectives into executable workstreams, ownership and measurable delivery commitments.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and lead delivery governance forums with decision-focused updates to stakeholders and leadership.
• Monitor progress, risks, issues, dependencies and capacity, and drive disciplined follow-through across business, data, technology, finance, people and external partners.
• Facilitate transitions across discovery, design, build, validation, deployment and scaling, and assess delivery readiness and resource sufficiency.
• Develop recovery plans when scope, timelines, quality or risks threaten delivery, capture lessons learned and support vendor performance.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in business, life sciences, healthcare, operations, technology, engineering, analytics or a related discipline.
• 6+ years of experience in program/project delivery, transformation execution, PMO, commercial operations, consulting, technology delivery, product operations or cross-functional initiative management.
• Experience in pharma, biotech, healthcare, tech, consulting, commercial transformation, digital/product delivery, AI/data programs or regulated delivery environments.
• Experience building plans, milestone maps, critical paths, decision calendars, dependency logs, risk/issue registers, release plans and governance materials.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams without replacing specialist ownership.

Required skills

• Desirable: Agile/SAFe, Scrum, Jira, Smartsheet, MS Project, Power BI, Excel, PowerPoint, Copilot.
• Desirable: vendor performance management, recovery planning, release/deployment sequencing and adoption-informed delivery adjustments.

What we offer

• Expected salary of $138,600 to $257,400 per year, with a performance-based cash incentive and possible annual equity awards.
• Health, life and disability benefits, 401(k) with company contribution and match, and a time-off package including vacation, personal days and holidays.