March 2016 – Present

Basel - Switzerland

Key Highlights
• Received 2017 Global Achievement Awards for the category Diversity & Inclusion with “Hello App” for addressing one of the key challenges blind and visual impaired patients face, which is the ability to recognize people around them. This helps to combat uncertainty and social isolation.
• Full understanding of Global business customers’ needs and details on Account Plan, to undertake actions to support them.
• Fully integrated within the Business Franchises and well know SPOC.
• Successfully led programs/projects with end-to-end accountability, localizable for CPOs, and proactively supported Business and our IT peers in the CoE.

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Responsibility to represents IT as first (and single) point of contact towards the business area(s) for the purpose of business technology strategy development, budget planning and management, portfolio management, business architecture, demand management, innovation management and relationship management to maximize the business value of IT investment, ensuring strategic alignment between the Commercial priorities and NBS Commercial IT. 

Understands and anticipates strategic and/or operational customer needs and translate them into effective and/or improved processes and/or technical solutions by coordinating internal Novartis as well as external resources / service providers. 

As a Business Partner I play a critical role in translating business requirements to solid, value driven solutions, leveraging existing enterprise technology assets, but also supporting innovation opportunities where new solution options are required to meet prioritized business demand.

Understand the details of the technology solutions being deployed aligned with business strategy, works closely with NBS IT across commercial and compliance processes areas.

Build strong business relationship with stakeholder groups through participation in regularly scheduled business management meetings.
Initiate and act as initial contact point for Business needs; evaluate feasibility of potential projects in coordination with "Digital and Commercial Solutions" team.

Serve as escalation point for the business initiatives, partner with the business to add value when preparing business cases and provide consulting in expertise. Leading solution visioning sessions, including requirement gathering and rationalization.