REQ-10083237
Jul 17, 2026
LOC_IN

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

Business Analysis & Requirements Management

  • Lead business requirement workshops, stakeholder interviews, and discovery sessions across global and local markets.
  • Elicit, analyze, document, and validate business, functional, and non-functional requirements.
  • Act as the primary liaison between Global Product teams, Country MDM teams, business stakeholders, and IT teams.
  • Conduct impact assessments to identify business, process, architectural, and technical dependencies affecting MDM initiatives.
  • Translate business needs into BRDs, FRDs, user stories, epics, use cases, process flows, and acceptance criteria.
  • Define UAT strategies, business test scenarios, and acceptance criteria.
  • Clarify and refine requirements throughout the project lifecycle and obtain business sign-off.
  • Facilitate requirement handover sessions to delivery, development, and support teams.

Master Data , Data Model and Data Quality

  • Define and document requirements related to Customer Master Data, Brand Master and Reference Data and Hierarchies.
  • Analyse master data entities, relationships, affiliations, business rules, and data models.
  • Support development and enhancement of global data models, business glossaries, and master data standards.
  • Evaluate local market needs against global standards and recommend scalable, harmonized solutions.
  • Drive data standardization, hierarchy management, and attribute harmonization initiatives
  • Define/Validate data quality rules, validation criteria, monitoring processes, and KPI frameworks.
  • Monitor data quality metrics including completeness, accuracy, consistency, uniqueness, and timeliness.
  • Partner with business, technical and operations teams to continuously improve data quality and adoption.

Change Management & Business Adoption

  • Develop training materials, process documentation, and knowledge transfer content.
  • Conduct stakeholder onboarding and user training sessions.
  • Support country onboarding, rollout activities, and adoption of new MDM capabilities.
  • Drive organizational change management activities to ensure successful business adoption.
  • Measure adoption, business value realization, and continuous improvement opportunities

Essential Requirements: 

Functional:

  • Requirement Gathering
  • Create Functional Specifications documents
  • Agile & Scrum Methodologies
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Gap Analysis
  • Data Model and High-Level design creations
  • Test case Reviews and UAT Coordination

Domain:

  • Pharma and Life sciences

Technology:

  • Any Master Data Management (MDM) tool (Preferred Reltio)
  • Snowflake / SQL
  • JIRA Management
  • API / Integrations
  • Salesforce Lifesciences Cloud
  • ServiceNow

Desirable Requirements:  

  • Bachelor's or master's degree in information technology, Data Management, Life Sciences, or any related field.
  • 8+ years of Business Analysis experience.
  • 3+ years of MDM/Data Governance experience.
  • Experience working with global stakeholders across multiple geographies.
  • Experience working with implementation partners and vendors.
  • Exposure to large-scale data transformation and digital programs.

Commitment 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. 

 

Why Novartis: Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture 

Benefits and Rewards: Read our handbook to learn about all the ways we’ll help you thrive personally and professionally: https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards  

Role Requirements

Why Novartis: Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

Benefits and Rewards: Learn about all the ways we’ll help you thrive personally and professionally.
Read our handbook (PDF 30 MB)

DIV_IM
Marketing
LOC_IN
Hyderabad (Office)
FCT_MM
Full time
Regular
No
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