Ldc Core Design Quote-to-contract

**Summary**:
The Core Design Business Workstream lead is accountable for the design across Novartis Operating Units to drive change and engagement enabling Novartis to transform into a focused medicines company powered by data and digital.

Actively leverage the entire LDC teams, key stakeholders / senior management to shape the structures/concepts/framework that enables Novartis to achieve functional excellence, while maintaining a key focus on value creation, processes, data, systems, and operating model optimization.

**About the Role**:
**#LI-Hybrid**:
Location: Barcelona, Spain

**Major**Accountabilities**:

- **Strategic**Leadership**:

- Execute, and govern the LDC strategy aligned with Novartis’ vision.
- Implements approaches and frameworks in collaboration with LDC Release Management, Core Enablement, Adopt and other functional workstreams and other Core Functions.
- Foster a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the program.
- Manage workstream KPIs and data & information requirements for their workstream, in coordination with the Program team.
- **Cross-Functional**Collaboration**:

- Work closely with other Functional workstreams, LDC Core Enablement, Adopt, GPOs, and Enterprise Data Owners (EDOs) to align on data management efforts.
- Champion cross-functional integration topics and dependencies.
- **Approaches, Standards and**Governance**:

- Manage all Design activities from Scoping to Build including Training.
- Accountable to ensure Standardization objectives are met.
- Release Scoping and F2C Activities for upcoming LDC releases: Coordinate the scoping of releases and ensure smooth transition from concept to delivery.
- Program Test Management: Implement testing approaches and oversee testing activities across projects.
- Lead functional Integration business scenarios and implement approach coordination across, Adopt and countries/sites/NOCCs.
- Ensure NFCM matrix accurately reflects the standardized business processes as per LDC, and evaluate opportunities to minimize redundancies (i.e., leaner control matrix)
- Support developing, mapping, and governing a common global customer-oriented process design based on aligned user requirements.
- Security and Access/profiles Governance: Develop and maintain security concepts and access controls. Ensure compliance with industry standards and internal guidelines.
- Retrofit of Releases: Manage and define actions to ensure the retrofit for existing live LDC releases.
- Triggered projects: regularly report on triggered projects, milestones, and performance metrics as per delivery model.

**Key Performance Indicators / Measures of**Success**:

- Delivery of key milestones of the program on time, in quality and within budget, with full buy-in and support of country and global teams
- Establishment and achievement on key program milestones and KPIs on time, with quality and within budget
- Effectiveness of standardization and processes and master data
- Customer satisfaction with decision support, early warnings, special projects/tasks
- No critical findings in audits and inspections
- Value realization
- Development of talent, ensuring retention and succession planning in place, employee satisfaction

**Requirements**:
**Education &**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor university degree or higher.

**Languages**:

- English as necessary and additional language(s) preferred.

**Experiences**:

- At least 5+ years of senior management experience, ideally in a country general management role and/or senior management in a regional or global team.
- Proven experience in managing Projects, Programs, Business Process Transitions, Migrations & change Management with internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to engage, influence and drive change with senior stakeholders.

**Technical/Functional Skills &**Knowledge**:

- Expert level expertise in commercial contracting, rebating and revenue deduction forecasting processes with transactional customers (wholesalers, hospitals, pharmacies) across entire contract lifecycle in the pharmaceutical industry including:

- Defining, and developing contract (front end) and revenue (back end) architectures
- Defining contract & claims types (including claims maintenance, disputes & deduction management processes)
- Defining and determining all condition types related to condition contracts (on and off invoice, inclusion / exclusion rules)
- Defining contract/revenue lifecycle related reports
- Super user level of experience in Vistex contract, pricing and revenue management module or alternatively in S4/HANA Sales & Distribution module (SD)
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.
- Able to leverage networks of professionals across functions and business areas.
- Understands the competing organizational needs beyond own part of business.
- Able to interpret complex information and to influence internal and external peers.
- Role model for Novartis’ values and behavio