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AD, Engine Delivery Lead (6 Positions)
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation · 🇺🇸 East Hanover
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- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 75 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 31 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
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Sponsor Radar — Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
The US Department of Labor certified 75 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 31 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Job Description Summary #LI-Hybrid This position will be located at the East Hanover, NJ site and will not have the ability to be located remotely. This position will require travel as defined by the business (domestic and/ or international). Imagine leading the engine behind transformational change. As an AD, Engine Delivery Lead, you'll play a pivotal role in turning ambitious business strategies into coordinated, measurable outcomes. Working at the center of cross-functional teams, you'll bring structure, clarity, and execution excellence to complex initiatives that span business, technology, data, and organizational change. This is a unique opportunity for a highly organized and influential leader who thrives on connecting people, priorities, and plans to deliver meaningful impact at scale. If you're energized by solving complex challenges, driving momentum, and helping teams achieve their biggest goals, we'd love to hear from you. Job Description 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 to ensure alignment, accountability, and seamless execution across initiatives. • Lead delivery governance forums and provide clear, decision-focused updates to stakeholders and leadership. • Monitor progress, risks, issues, dependencies, and capacity to proactively address execution challenges. • Drive disciplined follow-through across business, data, technology, finance, people, and external partner teams. • Facilitate effective transitions across discovery, design, build, validation, deployment, and scaling phases. • Assess delivery readiness, resource sufficiency, and milestone achievement to ensure successful outcomes. • Develop and implement recovery plans when scope, timelines, quality, or risks threaten delivery objectives. • Capture lessons learned, improve delivery standards, and support vendor performance and operational excellence. Essential Requirements: • Education: Bachelor's degree in business, life sciences, healthcare, operations, technology, engineering, analytics, or related discipline required • 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 and maintaining integrated plans, milestone maps, critical paths, decision calendars, dependency logs, risk/issue registers, release plans, and governance materials. • Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams across business, product, data, technology, design, change, P&O, Finance, vendors, and external partners without replacing specialist ownership. • Ability to pressure-test delivery realism, resource sufficiency, dependency readiness, evidence quality, and stage-gate preparedness. • Strong written, analytical, and facilitation skills, with ability to present facts, options, implications, and recommended actions for decision-making. Desirable Requirements: • Experience with Agile/SAFe, Scrum, Jira, Smartsheet, MS Project, Power BI, Excel, PowerPoint, Copilot, or other execution and reporting tools. • Experience supporting vendor performance management, recovery planning, release/deployment sequencing, and adoption-informed delivery adjustments Novartis Compensation Summary: The salary for this position is expected to range between $138,600 and $257,400 per year. Th