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Project Manager, IT Procurement
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation · 🌍 Hyderabad (Office)
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Job Description Summary Location: Hyderabad, India #LI-Hybrid Internal job title: Associate Director, Project Management About the Role: Are you an experienced technology project leader who can turn complex business priorities into successful, scalable solutions? As Project Manager, IT Procurement, you will lead the end-to-end delivery of complex, cross-regional technology initiatives supporting Procurement. Working across business, Data, Digital & IT, Procurement and external partners, you will establish strong governance, drive predictable execution and ensure technology investments deliver measurable business value. You will play a key role in Procurement transformation initiatives, including Source-to-Contract solutions, SAP programs, AI-enabled capabilities and emerging procurement technologies. Job Description Key Responsibilities: • Lead the end-to-end delivery of multiple complex Procurement technology projects, from demand intake and planning through deployment, adoption and operational transition. • Ensure projects are delivered within agreed scope, timelines and budgets, with clear ownership, accountability and alignment with business objectives, technology roadmaps and architecture standards. • Act as the primary interface between Procurement stakeholders and technology delivery teams, translating business requirements into scalable and sustainable solutions. • Identify opportunities to simplify processes, increase automation and accelerate the adoption of digital and AI-enabled Procurement capabilities. • Establish and maintain effective project governance, including project plans, milestones, dependencies, critical paths, resource requirements, approvals and quality documentation. • Proactively manage risks, issues, dependencies, decisions and change requests, ensuring timely escalation and effective mitigation. • Manage external delivery partners, including consulting firms, software providers, system integrators and implementation vendors, against contractual commitments, milestones and deliverables. • Support vendor sourcing and contracting activities, including requests for information, requests for proposals and contract preparation. • Manage project budgets, forecasts and financial reporting, monitoring actual expenditure against plans and identifying potential risks, variances and savings opportunities. • Contribute to Procurement technology portfolio planning, prioritization, investment decisions and continuous improvement. Essential Requirements: • 10+ years of experience in IT project or program management within complex enterprise environments. • Proven experience delivering large-scale, global technology projects involving multiple vendors, functions and business stakeholders. • Experience delivering Procurement, ERP, SaaS, or enterprise platform implementations. • Strong understanding of Procurement and Source-to-Pay processes, with the ability to connect technology decisions to business outcomes and value realization. • Deep knowledge of project and program management methodologies, governance, planning, dependency management and execution. • Demonstrated experience managing project budgets, forecasts, resources, risks, issues and vendor management and vendor performance. • Strong stakeholder management, negotiation, facilitation and conflict-resolution skills within a complex matrix organization. • Excellent communication skills, including experience preparing executive-level updates, steering committee materials and decision summaries. Desirable requirements: • Experience working in a regulated business environment. • Exposure to AI-enabled business solutions, process automation, digital Procurement transformation or emerging Procurement technologies Commitment