Operations Senior Project Manager

Band
Level 5

Job Description Summary
Primary Location: Hyderabad, India

Relocation Support: This role is based in Hyderabad, India. Novartis is unable to offer relocation support: please only apply if accessible.

Ready to shape how global clinical operations plan and deploy their resources for the future? As Operations Senior Project Manager, you will partner with Site Management and Monitoring leadership to help drive strategic resource planning, budget management, and data-driven decision-making. You will connect teams across functions, translate business needs into forward-looking resourcing solutions, and help build agile approaches that ensure the right capabilities are available where they are needed most. This is an opportunity to influence how we plan today while helping create a more flexible and sustainable operating model for tomorrow.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

· Partner with Site Management and Monitoring leadership to identify resource gaps and secure appropriate capabilities.

· Implement resourcing strategies and track internal and external workforce utilization, budgets, and staffing requirements.

· Build collaborative relationships across functions to enable effective resource deployment and reallocation.

· Partner with Finance to support budget development, financial targets, and continuous process improvement.

· Coordinate financial planning activities during annual strategy and portfolio planning cycles.

· Help develop sustainable, agile resource models that enable portfolio-driven, real-time allocation.

· Create and implement data-driven approaches that strengthen strategic workforce and resource planning.

· Support leadership in managing functional budgets, travel expenditure, service agreements, and financial priorities.

· Align with project management colleagues to optimize organizational processes, performance, and cross-functional collaboration.

· Represent Operations leadership when delegated, ensuring alignment and coordination across key initiatives.

Essential Requirements

· Minimum of a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

· Minimum 4 years of experience in strategic resource planning, workforce management, or operational planning within a complex global organization.

· Strong project management experience, including coordinating complex initiatives across multiple functions and stakeholders.

· Experience managing budgets, financial targets, resource forecasts, and multi-year planning activities.

· Proven ability to use data and insights to inform resource decisions and develop effective business solutions.

· Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills, with experience building relationships across senior leadership and cross-functional teams.

· Experience developing or implementing agile, sustainable approaches to resource allocation and organizational planning.

· Ability to manage competing priorities, identify opportunities for improvement, and translate strategic objectives into practical actions.

· Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to represent leadership and provide guidance across functions.

Desirable Requirements

· Experience supporting resource planning or operational strategy within clinical development or clinical operations.

· Experience working across global, matrixed organizations with Finance, operational, and senior leadership stakeholders.

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

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

Skills Desired
Budget Management, Clinical Trials, People Management, Project Planning, Vendor Management, Waterfall Model