Automation Delivery Lead

h3Job Description Summary /h3pThe Automation Delivery Lead is accountable for enterprise automation delivery across relevant technologies, platforms, and initiatives, with an initial focus on Appian and the Aurora programme. The role owns and governs the Automation Factory while also providing delivery leadership for automation scope outside the Factory, ensuring consistent, secure, and compliant delivery aligned with business priorities and Sandoz standards. /ppThe role is responsible for evolving and scaling the Automation Factory by onboarding additional platforms, delivery capabilities, and use cases into the Factory operating model. Working through delivery partners and internal stakeholders, the position ensures end-to-end delivery accountability, effective cross-functional coordination, partner performance, platform integrity, business value, and sustainable operational outcomes. /ph3Job Description /h3h3Your

Key Responsibilities
/h3pYour responsibilities include, but not limited to /pulliOwn enterprise automation delivery across Factory and non-Factory scope, while governing and progressively expanding the Automation Factory across additional platforms, capabilities, and business demand. /liliAct as the primary internal interface with delivery partners, holding partners accountable for agreed scope, timelines, budget, quality, resourcing, contractual commitments, and knowledge transfer. /liliAlign business stakeholders, architecture, platform engineering, quality, security, operations, and other internal functions on priorities, dependencies, decisions, and solution readiness. /liliEstablish and govern delivery standards, lifecycle controls, reusable patterns, documentation, release expectations, and compliance with enterprise architecture, information security, GxP, validation, and data integrity requirements. /liliOversee demand intake, delivery-route assessment, roadmaps, prioritisation, capacity, major risks, dependencies, escalations, business adoption, and transition of solutions into sustainable operational support. /liliDrive the onboarding of additional automation platforms and capabilities into the Factory model, using delivery performance, lessons learned, reusable assets, and business demand to scale the capability sustainably. /li /ulh3Essential Requirements /h3ulli10+ years of experience in enterprise IT, application delivery, software engineering, platform delivery, or automation solutions. /liliAt least 5 years of experience with end-to-end accountability for complex technology delivery involving multiple stakeholders, platforms, and external delivery partners. /liliExperience delivering enterprise automation solutions, ideally using Appian or comparable low-code, workflow, orchestration, or automation platforms. /liliDemonstrated experience establishing, governing, and scaling a factory-based or comparable delivery model. /liliStrong experience governing delivery partners, contractual commitments, service performance, delivery quality, risks, escalations, and knowledge transfer. /liliProven ability to align business, architecture, engineering, quality, security, and operational stakeholders on priorities, decisions, dependencies, and delivery readiness. /liliStrong understanding of end-to-end technology delivery, including demand intake, requirements, solution assessment, design, build, testing, validation, release governance, capacity models, and performance measures across Factory and non-Factory delivery. /liliKnowledge of enterprise integration, APIs, workflow orchestration, information security, validation practices, GxP requirements, and data integrity principles. /liliStrong communication, negotiation, influencing, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to operate effectively in a global matrix organisation and communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. /li /ulh3Why Sandoz? /h3pSandoz is the global leader in Biosimilar and Generic medicines, a segment of the healthcare industry that delivers 80% of the world's medicines at 30% of the cost, touching the lives of more than 1 billion people across 100+ countries While we are proud of our achievements, we have an ambition to do more so that everyone can achieve the basic human right of good health. /ppWith investments in new development capabilities, production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help even more people gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably. /ppOur momentum is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills, experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful careers, where diversity of thought is welcomed and where personal growth is supported #Sandoz /ph3Skills Desired /h3pBudget Management, Business Acumen, Influenci /p