Summary
This role will lead a strategic portfolio across IT and Integrated Security & Controls (ISC), shaping the evolution of our ServiceNow ecosystem through strong governance, AI-native innovation, improved user experiences, and expansion into new enterprise workflow capabilities.
This role requires a combination of deep ServiceNow technical and functional breadth, large-scale solutions delivery leadership, operating model optimization, and a product-oriented growth mindset.
About the Role
Major Accountabilities
Solutions Delivery Leadership
Lead strategy, roadmap execution, and delivery across a portfolio including:
- ITSM, ITOM, APM/EA
- SecOps-VR, BCM, IRM
- Enterprise Service Catalog solutions
Responsibilities include:
- Drive delivery outcomes, value realization, and portfolio performance
- Lead prioritization, execution, and cross-functional alignment
- Operate solutions as products with focus on scalability and adoption
Technical and Solution Leadership
- Provide technical and functional leadership across the ServiceNow portfolio
- Guide solution decisions leveraging strong platform understanding
- Partner closely with engineering, architecture, and operations to ensure scalable, robust outcomes
Portfolio Expansion and Innovation
- Identify and scale opportunities to expand ServiceNow into new business capabilities
- Develop business cases and roadmaps for capability growth
- Drive AI-enabled innovation to improve productivity, velocity, quality, and standardization
- Advance operating model performance through optimization of existing delivery mechanisms
User Experience and Partnership
- Improve workflow usability and adoption across ServiceNow personas
- Partner across business and technology stakeholders to drive innovation and value realization
Minimum Requirements
- 12+ years in enterprise technology or digital workflow leadership
- 7+ years leading large-scale and complex ServiceNow solution delivery
- Deep technical depth and breadth across multiple ServiceNow domains
- Experience leading complex delivery portfolios
- Experience expanding platform capabilities and driving new solution adoption
- Experience using AI or automation to improve delivery performance
- Strong executive stakeholder management and cross-functional leadership skills
- ServiceNow COE leadership experience
- AI-enabled workflow and AI-assisted SDLC experience
- ServiceNow certifications a plus
Why Novartis?
Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us!
Learn more here:
https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
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.
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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.
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