Associate Director, Portfolio Management

About the role

This role is offered through [MSP/supplier/third party provider], who, if selected, will be your employer. If your services are retained, you will be assigned to provide services to Novartis as the end client. This is not an offer of employment with Novartis. If you are selected for this Temporary/External opportunity, you will not be an employee of Novartis and will not be eligible for any Novartis employee benefits or incentives. Novartis touches the lives of a tenth of the world’s population. Every role here, regardless of contract type, makes an impact on human life! Novartis US partners with external managed service provider Magnit Global to offer engaging temporary contractor opportunities like this, to those who are looking for flexibility in their career while looking to gain new skills and experiences providing services to an inclusive global medicines company. Ready to work with/through Magnit at Novartis? Please read on... Portfolio Manager Novartis is seeking an Associate Director, Portfolio Management to support portfolio planning, demand management, assessment, prioritization, and governance activities across a diverse portfolio of technology, data, digital, and business initiatives. Working closely with portfolio leaders, product teams, business stakeholders, and technology organizations, this role will help facilitate intake and assessment processes, support portfolio planning activities, develop insights for leadership decision-making, and contribute to governance and reporting processes that drive transparency across the portfolio. The successful candidate will play an important role in helping ensure demand is evaluated consistently, portfolio information remains current and actionable, and leadership has visibility into priorities, capacity considerations, dependencies, risks, and investment decisions.

Responsibilities

• Support demand intake and assessment activities across business and technology initiatives.
• Partner with stakeholders to gather information needed to evaluate incoming requests.
• Contribute to demand reviews by analyzing strategic alignment, business value, resource considerations, dependencies, and potential impacts.
• Help ensure requests are documented, categorized, and routed appropriately through portfolio processes.
• Support the preparation of materials used during intake, assessment, and prioritization discussions.
• Assist in portfolio planning and prioritization activities.
• Analyze portfolio demand, capacity information, dependencies, and competing priorities.
• Develop insights and recommendations to support portfolio decision-making.
• Maintain visibility into proposed, approved, in-flight, and deferred initiatives.
• Support portfolio scenario planning and investment discussions.
• Support portfolio governance forums, reviews, and decision-making processes.
• Prepare portfolio dashboards, reports, leadership presentations, and status updates.
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