IT Strategic Project Manager - Demand (Project Portfolio) Expert

Novartis Corporation; Novartis Business Services (NBS)

Novartis is a leading global medicines company, using innovative science and
digital technologies to create transformative treatments. With 50 billion USD
revenues and 120 thousand employees they are one of the top 3 health companies.

Oct 2017 to August 2020 IT Strategic Project Manager - Demand (Project Portfolio) Expert, Munich
and Global
Novartis Business Services (NBS)
NBS is the Shared Services arm for Novartis Pharmaceuticals with more than
10,000 associates. IT is the largest function with more than 3500 associates
* Manage IT Project Demand and Portfolio Management for Global Development IT
(DIT) Regulatory, Technical Research & Development, and Sandoz D&R and
Biopharmaceuticals. 25 million USD / yr Opex.
* Implement strategic projects - Demand Harmonization, Strategic engagement,
Digital strategy
* Ad-interim Demand Manager (6 month) NBS DIT (2018)
* Coach teams (IT and Business) in Agile ways of working.
Highlights:
* Harmonize Demand Management across global functions (2020)
* DIT Leadership Award: Collaboration - Digital Strategy Response Team - DIT
to Global Drug Development - How we support our customers strategy (2019)
* Award: NBS IT: Collaboration - Change and Transition (2019)
* Lead Rollout and Delivery of Strategy Engagement for DIT - globally 450
employees (2018)
* Delivered Continuous Improvement Initiatives - Led Agile Ways of Working,
Led Demand Process - Integrated Portfolio Management, and Innovation Model
Development (2018)
* Recognition/Reward: Establishment of Demand Management (2017)
* Award: Novartis Business Partnering Challenge - Team Place 2nd, Individual
place 8th (2017)
* Award: Change Management Excellence - Organisational Transition (2017)

Head Project Management Office

Munich and Global Sandoz

Sandoz
Sandoz is the Generics arm of Novartis focusing on producing generic small
molecule and biosimilar pharmaceutical products. A global leader with 10
billion USD revenue and 20 thousand employees.
* Established and led the Project Management Office (PMO) for Sandoz Drug
Development & Regulatory (D&R) and BioPharma IT. 10 million USD / yr
* Responsible for portfolio, projects, project managers, and standards and
practices.
* Member of Novartis Project Standards and Framework Board (2013 - 2016)
* Led Sandoz Commercial IT team - 3 month assignment - emergency role, in
addition to standard responsibilities (2013)

Head Project Management Office

CIO Sandoz

* CIO Sandoz France - 5 month assignment - emergency role, in addition to
standard responsibilities (2013)
Highlights:
* Award: NBS Business Partnering - 1st place. (2016)
* Implemented organizational transition (Lift and shift) - Sandoz
Development IT lead - Local Functional based model to Global Cross
Functional model for Novartis Business Services. (2015-16)
* Implemented Agile4Ice - Novartis Global Framework and Standards for Agile
project delivery (2014)

Program Manager

Ljubljana Slovenia and Global LEK d.d.o.

LEK d.d.o.
Lek is a subsidiary of Sandoz with their Head Office in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Highlights:
* Led the recovery and re-planning taskforce for a major strategic platform
for end to end Drug Development Portfolio Decision Management system (5 to
15 million Euro +) (2010)
* Led the implementation of a Global SharePoint Platform - Pilot to rollout
* recovered program and delivered 12 months of deliverables in 6 months
(2009)

Project/Development/Programme Manager

Dell Inc.

Dell Inc.
Dell is a global leader in the production and supply of personal computers and
servers.
* I held roles of increasing responsibility managing remote teams (based in
Moscow, India, US, Ireland, Poland, South America) for medium to large
multiple projects and programs.
* Acted as a trouble shooter for program and project level issues related to a
larger program, leading to a role as Development Manager, and ultimately
Program Manager for the Order Management work stream for a new factory
start-up in Poland (involving 3 large concurrent projects with multiple
geographically dispersed teams and stakeholders in a weak matrix structure)
from development through to deployment and operational support including 20
new interfaces to supporting systems.
Highlights:
* Delivered multiple supply chain projects with 100% on time, on budget
project completion with high customer satisfaction.
* Increased project ROI - from 0.5 to 2 million over a 6 month period.
* Directors Award: Project management and team building.
* Delivered Order Management, Work in Process, and Tandem mainframe Core
System for a major factory start-up. On site lead for all systems.

Consultancy Owner/Founder

SolutionIS d.o.o.

SolutionIS d.o.o.
SolutionIS provided Business Analysis & Consultancy for small to medium size
corporations.

* Consulted with C and E level clients and owners.
* Provided analysis, planning and delivery for Organisational Change
Management, Outsourcing, and New Business development.

Highlights:
* Developed a new product offering; Business Change Program - Organizational
Change Management - for VMA Consulting, d.o.o. This was a key link between
their Strategic Management Consulting and Business Process Reengineering
programs.
* Led a proposal to place a local team to undertake support for a core banking
system - for SRC.SI d.o.o. The project placed SRC.SI as a key partner for
the bank.

Business Analyst & Consultant

Financial Network Systems (FNS) Pty Ltd

assignments
Financial Network Systems (FNS) Pty Ltd
FNS developed their own Core Banking Systems (BANCS system)
* Provided consultancy on various client projects developing and implementing
Banking systems and interfaces to their needs.

Highlight:
* Negotiating cost savings of >1m EURO on a fixed price contract.

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