Mary Pat Saddler - Vice President, Novartis

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Work Background

STRATEGIC IT PARTNERSHIP LTDPrincipal, Consulting Lead

Sep. 2023United StatesProviding C-Level strategic and digital innovation support to complex global organizations, Business Technology leadership teams, and select services organizations.

NovartisVP & Divisional CIO, Sandoz

Apr. 2021 - Jul. 2023United States

Corteva AgriscienceVP, Infrastructure & Operational Excellence

Aug. 2020 - Apr. 2021Wilmington, Delaware, United StatesDeveloped a strategic vision for the organization and a tangible plan to achieve stability and efficiency, while implementing platforms to enable digital transformation. Responsible for reducing operational costs by 15% over two years, through evolution of the operating model and thoughtful outsourcing of services; and streamlining internal processes to decrease delivery and response time by 10%.

Corteva AgriscienceVP, IT Strategy & Planning

Mar. 2019 - Aug. 2020Wilmington, DelawareBuilt Office of the CIO with responsibility for PMO/Givernance, Budget, Technical Training, internal and external Communication, CIO & Leadership team support, and IT Delivery within Enterprise Programs. Created an IT operating model, bringing formerly disparate teams into alignment. Developed an operating budget and drove reduction of 16% through vendor management, renegotiation of contracts, reduction of technical debt, and process simplification. Managed closure of TSA’s resulting from separation from DOW-DuPont to ensure all dependency was removed in alignment with the separation plan, and within budget. Established a baseline template to enable annual budgeting process; collaborated across teams to remove redundancy, aggregate work with vendors to drive better savings, and allow transparency in licensing and software costs. Implemented a project management solution to drive consistency in delivery and reporting of status and spend. Enabled real-time analytics for Business Partners. Drove governance and post-delivery assessments of all significant projects to ensure constant process improvement.

Liberty IT SolutionsVP, Federal Portfolio

May. 2017 - Jan. 2019Woodlawn, MarylandResponsible for business development, including proposal and bid processes for all IT work within the US Department of Health and Human Services. Creating and maintaining key partner relationships and setting strategic direction for the company by assessing opportunities and evaluating investment to pay-back. In addition, guiding the company’s efforts to create new systems and processes to match its continued growth. Liberty IT Solutions is a mission-centric SDVPSB supporting multiple government agencies across a diverse portfolio of health information technology projects.

PfizerDirector, Global Business Intelligence

Jan. 2009 - May. 2017Collegeville, PAResponsible for Support and Program Operations, Budget, Internal Communications and Data Visualization Service for the Global Business Intelligence organization. Led an organization of 400 resources in the efficient and effective delivery of data environments in excess of 3 TB; reducing costs year on year while increasing uptime and reducing user issues. Established and led the Pfizer Government Pricing and Medicaid Support & Operations teams as well as the Medicaid Client Partner effort; moved a highly sensitive business team and function to an efficient managed service support model which reduced costs, as well as reducing dependency on individual resources for a key corporate function. Served as project lead for the Pfizer Achieving Commercial Excellence (PACE)-ERP (SAP) Integration - linking Pfizer’s two largest IT investments and providing real-time transparent sharing of data.

PfizerAssociate Director, IT Business Partner

Jan. 2003 - Jan. 2009Served as liaison between the IT Shared Services organizations and Business Facing IT Support teams. Managed issues, drove clarity in requirement scoping and communicated changes that would impact either team - specifically in the areas of demand management, application retirement, server updates, change in support services, and major business priority shifts.