Senior Specialist - Governance

Senior Specialist - Governance

The Governance Specialist plays a key role within Transformation & Governance by helping define how E&A operates, makes decisions, and engages with other areas. The role enables E&A to operate effectively and scale through clear collaboration models, streamlined processes, robust governance, and consistent delivery standards. By applying expertise in process optimization, organizational alignment, standards, and enablement, the specialist strengthens E&A’s operational backbone and increases its impact across partner teams.

About the Role

Major Accountabilities

• Define and maintain collaboration frameworks, roles, responsibilities, and engagement models across Experience & Adoption (E&A) teams and partner functions.
• Design, document, and continuously improve standardized processes to ensure consistent and efficient delivery of E&A services.
• Establish and evolve operating models, including service-based engagement approaches, to support diverse business and stakeholder needs.
• Drive governance practices by defining decision rights, review forums, escalation mechanisms, and accountability structures.
• Create and manage centralized methodologies, templates, playbooks, standards, and reusable tools to support operational excellence.
• Translate E&A strategy into executable roadmaps, align priorities, and coordinate delivery and monitor progress against goals across teams and stakeholders.
• Define, monitor, and report on KPIs and success metrics to measure impact, inform decision-making, and drive continuous improvement.
• Lead enablement and capability-building initiatives, promoting best practices and fostering a user-centric, results-driven culture.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Organizational Design, Business Administration, Program Management, or a related field.
• Proven experience designing and implementing operating models, governance frameworks, or business processes within complex, cross-functional organizations.
• Strong strategic planning and analytical skills, with the ability to convert business objectives into actionable programs and initiatives.
• Hands-on experience developing standards, templates, methodologies, and operational frameworks to support organizational consistency.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and influence across diverse stakeholder groups, including IT, service delivery, design, and research teams.
• Experience driving continuous improvement initiatives using data, insights, and user feedback to enhance effectiveness and scalability.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and presentation skills, with the ability to simplify complex concepts for different audiences; fluent in English.
• Experience leading organizational, operational, or cultural transformation initiatives within large, matrixed environments.

Why Novartis?

Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us! Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

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Division

Operations

Business Unit

General Management

Location

India

Site

Hyderabad (Office)

Company / Legal Entity

IN10 (FCRS = IN010) Novartis Healthcare Private Limited

Functional Area

Information Technology

Job Type

Full time

Employment Type

Regular

Shift Work

No

Accessibility and accommodation

Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.

Information Technology

Operations

India

Job ID

REQ-10090410

Senior Specialist - Governance

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Job ID

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Senior Specialist - Governance

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