Director Digital Workspace

Key Responsibilities:

• Own and managed end - end Services pertaining to Conference platform. Defining standards, governance, and run & build services for Conference rooms, teamwork spaces, & devices. Broadcasting, streaming, and video optimization technologies
• Major events, virtual congress platforms, and production technologies technical integration for broadcasting/live streaming
• Digital signage - deploying technical integrations required to transport broadcasting sources (Teams meeting, auditoria devices, meeting rooms, etc.) in to virtual production or websites. Industry standard protocols in Live Events
• Build & run reporting and business intelligence for all conferencing services. Strategy and planning on emerging conferencing technology.
• WebEx meetings, VC device cloud registration and piloting CVI as an option to replace on Prem infrastructure cloud only vs azure application and is part of ELA
• Cisco based SIP endpoints in meeting rooms (legacy meeting room standard) Built standard room designs, approve provided room designs.
• Manage remaining Cisco infrastructure required (CUCM, expressways, TMS) until cloud registered and on prem decommissioned.
• Handle emerging Cisco MTR environment in conference rooms / collaboration spaces. Video Streaming optimization and analytics. For all Live event services using peer-2-peer caching
• Live Broadcasting platform for video streaming and used for embedding live video streams. Teams Meeting Room Devices. Teams based room systems. Build standard room designs, approve provided room designs. Run deployment projects

Minimum Requirements:

• 15+ years of experience in general IT service management
• Minimum 5+ years of experience in Conferencing technology and Services
• Exposure and experience in  MTR (Cisco, Lenovo etc)  is preferred

Have strong soft skills pertaining to :

• Strong customer orientation.
• Major Change.
• Ability to work and lead (a cross-functional team) in a matrix. Global environment.
• Well-developed record of successful relationship management.
• Market and customer intelligence.
• Experience working cross-functionally and trans-nationally.
• Proven Ability to Develop trust-based relationships with key regional stakeholders.

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

You’ll receive:
Monthly pension contribution matching your individual contribution up to 3% of your gross monthly base salary; Risk Life Insurance (full cost covered by Novartis); 5-week holiday per year; (1 week above the Labour Law requirement) ; 4 paid sick days within one calendar year in case of absence due to sickness without a medical sickness report; Cafeteria employee benefit program – choice of benefits from Benefit Plus Cafeteria in the amount of 12,500 CZK per year; Meal vouchers in amount of 105 CZK for each working day (full tax covered by company); Public Transportation allowance; MultiSport Card. Find out more about Novartis Business Services: https://www.novartis.cz/

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