Summary

Role Type: Hybrid working, #LI-Hybrid
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Relocation Support: This role is based in Barcelona, Spain. Novartis is unable to offer relocation support: please only apply if accessible.

What if you could redesign how medicines move through Development and help innovative treatments reach patients faster?
As Associate Director, Business Process Excellence, you will lead high-impact transformation across the end-to-end drug-development value chain. You will partner with senior leaders and cross-functional teams to challenge existing assumptions, simplify complex processes, and design future-ready ways of working.
Using zero-based redesign, Lean, Agile, data, digital, and AI-enabled approaches, you will turn strategic priorities into measurable improvements in cycle time, productivity, quality, compliance, and organizational effectiveness.
About the Role

Key Responsibilities
- Lead enterprise-level process transformation across the drug-development value chain, from problem definition through future-state design, implementation, adoption,



and value realization.
- Apply zero-based redesign to challenge legacy assumptions, eliminate unnecessary complexity, and reimagine processes around business and patient outcomes.
- Shape AI-enabled future-state processes and operating models by identifying where work can be simplified, automated, augmented, or fundamentally redesigned.
- Translate data and process insight into action by diagnosing bottlenecks, handoffs, decision delays, process variation, and adoption barriers.
- Build compelling transformation cases with clear problem statements, outcome measures, implementation considerations, and expected business value.
- Facilitate high-impact working sessions that enable cross-functional teams and leaders to make decisions, resolve complex challenges, and align around a practical future state.
- Partner with process owners, business leaders, technology teams, and change leads to convert redesigned

📌 Associate Director, Business Process Excellence (España)
🏢 Development
📍 España