Pros
Good benefits. Good people (that are rapidly leaving however), good pipeline and opportunities to get involved in many things.
Cons
Novartis Technical Operations (NTO), is not part of Novartis culturally. The inspiring and attractive messages from Vas, the company CEO, are well received and integrated in all leadership areas of the company except for the NTO leadership group. Over the last few years, this area of the company has seen a culture of fear, lack of respect, and superficial communication emerge throughout the organization. Masked behind a masquerade of fake global townhalls (where spontaneous questions and interventions have been carefully prepared to look good and engaged), forced pictures, and communications aimed at pretending that the organization is engaged and empowered, the real pulse of the organization is one of fear of speakup, not knowing if tomorrow our roles will be there anymore, blaming of errors or for not achieving unrealistic targets, and of heavy condescendence from the Head of NTO towards leaders and people behind closed doors. Most of the focus and discussions are on budget and reporting, and the HR systems are merely transactional with superficial people development plans and systems ( a lot of blah blah and nice pictures, but fear to ask and get involved from HR). This environment is slowly creating compliance issues and problems which people are afraid to speak about (no matter how “safe” the business practice office claims to be). How long will Vas and his team continue to close their eyes on this……? there are 28000 people in NTO that truly do not feel “un-bossed”!!!!
