Major Accountabilities:

• Engages and aligns stakeholders at regional and global levels to optimize infrastructure service delivery and strategy.
• Translates global infrastructure strategy into actionable regional, country, or site-level plans for cost and productivity efficiencies.
• Communicates operating philosophy, objectives, and expectations to REFS teams and third parties to build operational consistency.
• Manage relationships with strategic internal and external partners and contributes to Infrastructure Network initiatives and projects.
• Collaborates with various stakeholders on strategic planning for infrastructure budgets, staffing, asset replenishment, and resource allocation.
• Partners with REFS Design & Construction Management and Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE) & BCM to align engineering, sustainability, risk management, and maintenance strategies.
• Develops, implements, and oversees operational standards and governance for both retained and outsourced infrastructure capabilities.
• Provides daily project management and oversight of outsourced infrastructure teams, ensuring contract delivery meets standards, timelines, and budgets.
• Ensures compliance with QA/GMP/HSE regulations and leads continuous improvement and corrective actions for infrastructure operations.
• Manages infrastructure budgets, monitors KPIs, assesses service delivery against SLAs, and escalates commercial contracting issues as needed.

Key Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical or scientific field, or equivalent experience; additional qualifications in economics and LEAN are advantageous
• Over 10 years of leadership experience managing complex infrastructure programs or projects, with proven planning and organizational skills.
• Strong understanding of local HSE regulations, as well as experience with process evaluation and improvement in GMP, health, safety, or environmental contexts.
• Demonstrated business acumen as a Senior Manager, with the ability to lead, manage, and influence both direct and indirect reports to achieve objectives.
• Analytical, methodical, and resourceful, with a consistent, motivated, professional, and reliable work ethic.
• Effective communicator in both oral and written formats, fluent in German and English.
• Skilled at building strong interpersonal relationships with team members and partners, understanding the overall picture as well as details and connection points.
• Innovative in problem-solving and proactive in identifying and addressing issues, with experience operating and reporting within multi-level governance structures.
• Fluent language skills in both German & English

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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

Benefits and Rewards: Learn about all the ways we’ll help you thrive personally and professionally.
Read our handbook (PDF 30 MB)