Associate Director

Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Own and drive Solution Design for Operational and Analytical reporting for Sales & Distribution area through addressing all business requirements and opportunities while following Novartis architectural standards, quality and information security principles.
• Collaborate closely with the Global Process Owners (GPOs) and Enterprise Process Leads (EPLs) to suggest standardized and simplified integrated solutions Champion the standardization and simplification of design, minimizing the custom solutions only for cases where Novartis makes a difference in the market serving customers/patients Prepare and run design workshops in the assigned Products .
• Identify critical integration points and dependencies, propose solutions for key gaps, provide effort estimations while ensuring alignment with business and other teams.
• Assure consistency and traceability between user requirements, functional specifications, Agile ways of working and adapting to DevSecOps, architectural roadmaps, regulatory/control requirements, and smooth transition of solutions to operations Deliver assigned project work as per agreed timeline within budget and on-quality adhering to following the release calendars

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor s degree in business/technical domains
• SAP certifications / trainings in specified module(s)/process areas > 8 years of relevant professional IT experience in the related functional area
• Experience in S4 HANA implementation, SAP SD process solution design areas in S4HANA.
• Experience SAP SD core process areas like Pricing, Sales order management & delivery, Billing areas.
• SAP SD reporting
• bility to convey complex information in a presentable, clear and precise manner with non-technical audience
• Critical thinking, able to look at numbers, trends, and data and come to new conclusions based on the findings