Job Description Summary
Location: Novartis Prague Czech Republic #LI-Hybrid
Would you like to make a significant impact in the pharmaceutical industry by producing innovative products and aspire for career progression in Third Party Risk Management Join our global team and become a part of the transformative change in medicine!
About the Role:
The Third Party Risk Management (TPRM) framework is being introduced to ensure that Novartis is conducting business with third parties who align to Novartis ethical standards. This is achieved by a robust proportionate and proactive process to qualify and manage third parties by which Novartis protects their business and their patients.
The TPRM Risk Specialist facilitates the end-to-end process including escalations and provides administrative support to the overall TPRM Operating Model. The TPRM Risk Specialist will manage supplier qualification operations and help perform risk assessment procedures to assess and mitigate risk when engaging Third Parties.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
- Facilitate Novartis ongoing compliance with Third-Party Management requirements outlined in Novartis policies and standards
- Execute common standardized third-party risk management processes managed centrally by the TPRM including:
- Researching third-party information and inputting data into relevant repositories like TPRM database
- Sending third party questionnaire (TPQ) to vendors liaising with the third party to complete it and analyzing it
- Validate the completeness of questionnaire responses and whether any required additional documentation has been submitted by the Third Party
- Validate the questionnaire responses against the submitted additional documentation
- Analyze and perform first pass review of questionnaires and additional documents in particular for automatic no-go criteria and risk indicators
- Coordinating with Risk experts to record documentsand manage risk assessment timelines
- Execute vendor screening and summarize the output for the risk team
- Coordinate and process TPRM assessments along with on-boarding workflows for Third Parties requiring assessment
- Identify automation opportunities and promote continuous improvements in culture
Essential Requirements:
- Ideally 2 3 years of experience in risk management
- Must have German or French speaking & writing ability
- Fluency in English Russian language would be beneficial
- Excellent stakeholder management skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Good willingness to learn
Desirable Requirements:
- Procurement exposure (e.g. vendor onboarding) would be beneficial
- Customer service experience is desirable
Benefits & Rewards
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 17500 CZK per year; Meal vouchers in amount of 105 CZK for each working day (full tax covered by company); Public Transportation allowance; MultiSport Card Employee Share Purchase Plan. Find out more about Novartis Business Services: to Diversity and Inclusion / EEO paragraph:
Novartis is committed to building an outstanding inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.
and accommodation:
Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to all individuals. If because of a medical condition or disability you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process or in order to receive more detailed information about the essential functions of a position please send an e-mail to and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.
Skills Desired
Internal And External Customer Needs Analysis & Satisfaction Studies Negotiating Root Cause Analysis And Problem-Solving Vendor Management
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority