Job Description Summary
The Senior Manager, Integration Specialist acts as a key strategist in Development Integrations projects translat-ing integration strategy into structured plans, deliverables and stakeholder-ready outputs. The incumbent stays on top of the integration planning & execution through analyzing progress and stakeholder behaviors to make necessary adjustments and advise corrective actions.

The role partners closely with Development Integration Leads and cross-functional workstreams to anticipate needs, surface risks and dependencies, and enable effective decision-making through disciplined planning, tracking and issue resolution.

Key responsibilities include applying fit-for-purpose project management rigor (e.g., plans, milestones, RAID, meeting cadence and documentation), coordinating governance forums and communications, and contributing to continuous improvement of DIO tools, templates and best practices based on lessons learned

Job Description
Major Accountabilities




Drive day-to-day governance and project management for assigned Development integration initiatives, translating integration strategy into integrated plans, milestones and actionable deliverables
Establish and maintain fit-for-purpose delivery discipline (scope, RACI, RAID, integrated plan, status reporting and decision/issue logs) leveraging the available tools (HUB, VISTA) tailored to the complexity and pace of the integration
Proactively surface cross-workstream risks, dependencies and trade-offs; coordinate mitigations, escalate where needed, and track actions through to closure to protect critical timelines and outcomes
Plan and coordinate governance forums (steering, workstream and checkpoint meetings), including agendas, pre-reads, minutes, decisions and action follow-up to enable timely, well-informed decision-making
Lead and drive the Third-party Integration workstream representing the business, on overall contract strategy in line Integration objectives
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📌 Senior Manager Hyderabad
🏢 Novartis
📍 Hyderabad