Novartis Hiring for Global HR Business Partner, Development job in East Hanover Full Time

About the role
Location: The location for this position will be based out of East Hanover, NJ and follow a hybrid working model.

The Novartis People & Organization (P&O) team is seeking a new Global P&O (HR) Business Partner who will champion the People and Organization agenda by advising, coaching and influencing leadership teams to help implement the near and longer-term business strategy and plans. As a strategic business advisor and coach, the Business Partner applies P&O consulting skills with data driven and external market insights to deliver an organizational aligned workforce strategy with talent interventions that span diversity and inclusion; talent management; organization design and effectiveness; culture; transformation and change; and employee experience. In addition, Business Partners liaise with People Partner teams on local change delivery and complex or high-profile P&O cases.

What you will be doing:

Client Support
•Directly influence the business strategy and translate the Global strategy and functional plans to design and implement people and organizational interventions that support the vision while applying data driven and external insights with P&O metrics (e.g., headcount, turnover, workforce skills, D&I, reporting, budget, etc.) to deliver business outcomes with impact.
•Develop an organizational design / plan for client groups by utilizing organizational diagnostics.
•Hold the knowledge and outlook for the 3-5 year business plans. Establish strategic workforce plans with leaders and develop organization design efficiencies to enable the long-term business strategy.
•Utilize consulting skills to influence, coach and provide feedback to leaders at all levels, ensuring our core values are lived every day and empower individual growth.
•Utilize personal impact and credibility to influence business leaders and key decision makers.

Culture
•Build an inclusive environment for the team to collaborate, develop trust, bring their best selves to work and work in a safe space to speak up.
•Coach leaders on team priorities and objectives linked to purpose and strategy, helping collaborate with other teams, manage across the matrix, remove obstacles and overcome silos.
•Contribute to and drive interventions to deliver a robust employee engagement strategy.
•Drive the cultural agenda across all levels of client groups.
•Enhance leadership capabilities through coaching and drive client leadership teams to set up a solid governance structure, operating models and culture to enable and fulfil strategic business objectives.
•Lead the cultural change agenda in partnership with People Partners across all levels of the client groups.
•Partner with the P&O Leadership Team and client leadership teams to facilitate, support and maintain a high performing and ethical culture.

Employee Relations & Policies
•Work with local People Partner teams to mediate and resolve complex employee relations issues at senior leadership level; conduct thorough and objective investigations when necessary.

Learning
•Promote organizational learning and knowledge sharing across teams.

Org Development & Capabilities
•Act as a diplomat, negotiator and coach to align the agendas of the business, NBS and the P&O function.
•Actively participate in complex, enterprise P&O projects or initiatives; ensure local business representation and alignment.
•Advise business leaders and functional teams on strategic and operational execution, including team effectiveness, change management, organizational design, performance management, talent, retention and engagement.
•Lead global / enterprise-wide P&O projects and ensure consistent and effective implementation across Novartis.

P&O Community Contributions
•Contribute actively to the P&O community and network. Act as a leader and collaborate with internal and external partners building P&O thought leadership.

Performance Management
•Instigate career and development conversations with business leaders, understanding aspirations, skills and the capabilities required.

Talent Management
•Develop organizational plans and designs for client groups by utilizing organizational diagnostics.
•Drive the talent agenda in partnership with the business, establishing quality succession planning for critical positions and business value roles, development plans of key talent and talent strategy to build the leadership pipeline.
•Identify required critical capabilities for the future and establish plans to meet capability gaps at the organization and individual level.
•Ensure critical positions are staffed by best-in-class candidates.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:
We are Equal Opportunity Employers and take pride in maintaining a diverse environment. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. We are committed to building diverse teams, representative of the patients and communities we serve, and we strive to create an inclusive workplace that cultivates bold innovation through collaboration and empowers our people to unleash their full potential.

Accessibility and Reasonable Accommodations: Individuals in need of a reasonable accommodation due to a medical condition or disability for any part of the application process, or to perform the essential functions of a position, please let us know the nature of your request, your contact information and the job requisition number in your message:

• Novartis: e-mail [email protected] or call +1 (877)395-2339
• Sandoz: e-mail [email protected] or call: +1-609-422-4098

Role Requirements
What you will bring to the role:

Education:
•Bachelor’s Degree, required. Master’s degree or higher education advantageous.

Experience:
12+ years minimum as an HR Business Partner supporting globally matrixed client groups. Pharmaceutical experience strong preferred.
•Strategy development
•Industry / Business exposure
•People leadership
•Collaborating across boundaries
•Major change
•Organization scope, scale & complexity

Why Novartis:

Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us!
Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people and culture

You’ll receive: You can find everything you need to know about our benefits and rewards in the Novartis Life Handbook. https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits rewards

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:
Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams’ representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Join our Novartis Network:
If this role is not suitable to your experience or career goals but you wish to stay connected to hear more about Novartis and our career opportunities, join the Novartis Network here:
https://talentnetwork.novartis.com/network

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $174,400.00 and $261,600.00 per year; however, while salary ranges are effective from 1/1/24 through 12/31/24, fluctuations in the job market may necessitate adjustments to pay ranges during this period. Further, final pay determinations will depend on various factors, including, but not limited to geographical location, experience level, knowledge, skills and abilities. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a sign-on bonus, restricted stock units, and discretionary awards in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.