Key Responsibilities:

• As a global business partner to the Global Head of the Technology Platform, conducting valuable analyses, and leading and developing a team of finance professionals. In that capacity, they contribute the creation of the long-term business strategies and operational plans as well as pushing for proper execution of the agreed strategies.
• Driving financial performance, supporting strategic decision-making, and ensuring adherence to financial processes and policies.
• Facilitate close collaboration between the Site Finance Heads, the Region TechOps Heads, the NOCC teams in the Operations Centers in Slovenia and Hyderabad and the ones of the Technology Platform to operationalize the strategy.
• Responsible for coordination of global initiatives and processes for the platform that go beyond regional boundaries. This may involve orchestrating new product launches across multiple regions, facilitating business development and licensing activities, or spearheading large-scale restructuring efforts. The platform head brings a strategic perspective to ensure seamless execution and alignment with overarching objectives.
• Profit owner for the platform, responsible to optimize operational income by implementing robust financial strategies and performance measures. By closely monitoring operational expenses and revenue streams, they strive to enhance profitability and sustain long-term growth in alignment with the organization's financial objectives.
• As the CapEx owner for the platform, they supervise capital expenditure decisions and investments, meticulously evaluating opportunities to allocate resources effectively and generate sustainable returns in collaboration with the site and country Finance heads. By using financial analysis and risk assessment techniques, they drive to strategic decision-making processes aimed at enhancing operational capabilities and driving value creation.
• As the Inventory owner, they are tasked with handling inventory levels and optimizing inventory turnover ratios to minimize carrying costs while ensuring adequate stock availability to meet demand. Through proactive inventory management practices and data-driven insights, they strive to achieve optimal inventory efficiency and contribute to overall cost management initiatives.
• As a member of the Finance Operations leadership team, they collaborate closely with fellow executives to co-own the strategic direction of the team. Together, they collectively shape the vision and objectives, ensuring alignment with broader organizational goals while fostering a culture of innovation and excellence. In this capacity, they contribute to the talent and culture agenda, recognizing the critical importance of nurturing a diverse and successful workforce to drive sustainable success.

What you'll bring to the role:

Essential Criteria:

• Extensive Finance experience including leadership experience, validated ability to influence decision-making.
• Strong evidence of effective business partner experience supporting commercial and technical units
• Experience as business partner supporting a production site is desirable (Site Finance Head)
• Financial and management reporting including production processes.
• Business Planning & Analysis and solid background in funds flow and IFRS.
• Understanding of production processes and link to financials/cost per unit
• Proficient in English both written & verbal.

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: http://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

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