REQ-10056868
Jul 06, 2025
Japan

Summary

Reviews, manages, proactively challenges, and controls status of projects operations of the programs and budgets; manages schedules and may prepares status reports. Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and stakeholders goals and objectives. Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with team members and line managers. Acts as liaison with alliance partners and thought leaders external to the company. Interfaces with stakeholders to ensure requirements are met.

About the Role

Major accountabilities:

  • Assists in the planning and execution of assigned projects while adhering to budget, scope and schedule requirements.

  • Helps ensure consistent practices throughout all phases of the project life cycle.

  • Prepares technical reports, summaries, protocols and quantitative analyses.

  • Executes high quality, integrated cross-functional plans for projects.

  • Applies best practices in the development, initiation, planning, execution, control and closing of projects.

  • Interacts with research and development, marketing, manufacturing and regulatory departments.

  • A seasoned, experienced professional with a full understanding of area of specialization; resolves a wide range of issues in creative ways.

  • Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.

  • Networks with senior internal and external personnel in own area of expertise.

  • Contributes to many cost center goals and objectives; may contribute to service line goals -Distribution of marketing samples (where applicable)

Key performance indicators:

  • Timely delivery of project as defined -Project delivery and tracking to meet project budget Operational excellence -Customer Feedback

Minimum Requirements:
Work Experience:

  • Cross Cultural Experience.

  • Functional Breadth.

  • Project Management.

  • Regulatory Submissions.

  • Operations Management and Execution.

  • Collaborating across boundaries.

Skills:

  • Behavioral Economics.

  • Business Administration.

  • Business Management.

  • Clinical Research.

  • Clinical Trials.

  • Cross-Functional Teams Collaboration.

  • Drug Development.

  • Efficiency.

  • Innovative Forward Thinking.

  • Lifesciences.

  • Microsoft Project.

  • Microsoft Sharepoint.

  • Operations.

  • Pmi (Project Management Institute).

  • Pmp (Project Management Professional).

  • Program Management.

  • Project Documentation And Presentation.

  • Project Execution.

  • Project Management.

  • Project Planning.

  • Stakeholder Management.

Languages :

  • English / Japanese

Why Novartis: Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

Benefits and Rewards: Read our handbook to learn about all the ways we’ll help you thrive personally and professionally:   https://www.novartis.com/sites/novartis_com/files/novartis-life-handbook.pdf

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 diversityandincl.china@novartis.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.

 

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Why Novartis: Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

Join our Novartis Network: Not the right Novartis role for you? Sign up to our talent community to stay connected and learn about suitable career opportunities as soon as they come up: https://talentnetwork.novartis.com/network

Benefits and Rewards: Read our handbook to learn about all the ways we’ll help you thrive personally and professionally: https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards

Development
Universal Hierarchy Node
Japan
Toranomon (NPKK Head Office)
Research & Development
Full time
Regular
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.

Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.

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REQ-10056868

Japan Program Manager

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