IT Strategic Business Partner for Data

**Summary**:
Location: Barcelona (Hybrid)

The Strategic Business Partner for Data & Analytics drives and ensures that DDIT global and local (where applicable) demand from business countries is captured. He/she collaborates with other DDIT functions to ensure quality services are delivered to stakeholders as per agreed service descriptions.

This role contributes to the organization's strategy and implements objectives with technology strategy development, solution discovery, service, risk and relationship management.

Responsible for product lifecycle in close partnership with the Global Product Line Lead and Business Product Owner, ensuring that countries under his/her scope understand Global Roadmaps and adhere to it.

Manages the technical Data & Analytics product roadmap for Region Europe except Germany.

Contributes to the Product Roadmap from ideation to development through adoption and value realization.

Participates in prioritizing features to build minimum viable products towards incrementally delivering maximum business value as per business requirements and priorities.

Represent the business and customer strategy for Region Europe except Germany in front of DDIT Teams, ensuring business priorities, gaps and escalations are addressed

**About the Role**:
**Major accountabilities**:

- Drive forward thinking and innovation within business to tech driven business capabilities and processes, leading conversation with consulting mindset together with Data & Analytics DDIT function.
- Accountable for Program, project & product delivery of Data & Analytics roadmap, to drive Business transformation Programs enabled by technology, co-own transformation outcomes. Measure and drive business value of transformation initiatives underpinned by Programs, Projects, Products. Improve the 'ease of engagement' with TT for the business. Support the business to understand their choices to manage technology costs
- Key business partner for business continuity. Serves as point of escalation, review and approval for key issues and decisions
- Contribute to the definition of the operational objectives and medium-term planning according to the long-term plans established by the TT strategy
- Articulate the local market business strategy and customer experience.
- Ensure that the Development Team understands items in the Product Backlog to the level needed corresponding to country business feedback

**Minimum Requirements**:

- Working experience within the pharmaceutical industry.
- Leveraging digital technology / big data.
- Influencing without authority. Relationship Management. Stakeholder identification & mapping.
- Track record delivering global solutions at scale.
- Multi-national global experience and collaborating across boundaries.
- Knowledge of project management models and techniques.
- Leveraging technology for business and customer needs.
- Business Analysis, Requirements Definition & Management.
- Analytical Thinking and Financial Modeling.

**Languages**:

- English.

Benefits in Spain include Company Pension plan; Life and Accidental Insurance; Meals; Allowance or Canteen in the office; Flexible working hours.

**Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion**:

- We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve._

Division

Operations

Business Unit

CTS

Location

Spain

Site

Barcelona Gran Vía

Company / Legal Entity

ES06 (FCRS = ES006) Novartis Farmacéutica, S.A.

Functional Area

Technology Transformation

Job Type

Full time

Employment Type

Regular

Shift Work

No