Manager, Operational Controls

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Novartis manager leading operational controls monitoring for patient-support programs. Managing analysts, quality checks, governance escalations, and monitoring readiness across regulated operations.

Responsibilities:

  • Manage day-to-day execution of operational control monitoring across assigned teams and programs
  • Ensure monitoring adheres to approved frameworks, scoring logic, definitions, standard work, and calibration routines
  • Apply control definitions consistently while accounting for program context
  • Manage monitoring volume, cadence, and depth based on operational risk, channel, and lifecycle stage
  • Adjust staffing and focus during hypercare and launch periods
  • Directly manage and develop Operational Controls Analysts through expectations, prioritization, performance standards, onboarding, skill development, and coaching
  • Support team resilience through cross-training across programs and monitoring functions
  • Enforce boundaries between monitoring, remediation, coaching, and training
  • Reinforce documented decision rights and escalation paths
  • Conduct first-level quality checks
  • Prepare and submit escalation inputs for governance forums and partner teams
  • Partner with the Associate Director on monitoring readiness for new programs, channels, and operational changes

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s Degree required
  • 3+ years of experience leading operational, quality, audit, or monitoring teams in a complex environment
  • Experience in patient services or similar environments, including specialty pharmacy distribution and capabilities, patient care coordination, operational workflows, and managed care knowledge
  • Demonstrated people leadership, coaching, and performance management capability
  • Experience operating within regulated and/or risk-based frameworks
  • Strong attention to control definitions and evidence
  • Strong judgment and analytical thinking
  • Ability to communicate clear, actionable insights to stakeholders
  • Demonstrated critical thinking, leveraging technology and data to perform call quality monitoring efficiently and meet KPIs
  • Ability to enforce scope, standard work, and governance discipline in ambiguous settings
  • Highly proficient in MS Office tools, quality monitoring and contact center results analysis, and reporting
  • Experience leveraging technology and data to support monitoring outcomes
  • Experience with Salesforce, Verint, Genesys, Five9, and other quality monitoring systems
  • Bilingual Spanish/English proficiency with strong reading, writing, and spoken skills
  • Experience supporting omni-channel or technology-enabled operations, launch/hypercare periods, and regulated environments preferred
  • Experience building calibration routines, QA playbooks, and monitoring standard work preferred
  • Six Sigma certification preferred

Benefits:

  • Performance-based cash incentive
  • Eligibility to be considered for annual equity awards, depending on role level
  • Health benefits
  • Life benefits
  • Disability benefits
  • 401(k) with company contribution and match
  • Vacation
  • Personal days
  • Holidays and other leaves
  • Reasonable accommodation for disabilities