P&O Manager,People Partner

Key Responsibilities：

• Accountable for credible P&O People Partnering to leaders, managers, and associates, offering advice and guidance on the moments that matter.
• Activate business ownership and accountability of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Acts as the escalation point for exceptions to P&O standards (regulations and P&O processes), deviations or appeals.
• Analyzes relevant data and metrics to understand and anticipate annual workload trends to ensure the team has capacity to meet business needs. Champions culture and supports implementation of corporate initiatives (e.g., CwR, Evolve, Go Big on Learning)
• Clarify People Partner team priorities linked to purpose and strategy, helping collaborate with other teams, manage across the matrix, remove obstacles and overcome silos. Collaborates with other P&O People Partner Heads in other countries, regions and clusters to maintain a consistent standard globally. Communicate full spectrum of inclusion & Psychological Safety
• Drive buy-in and utilization of data and analytics to identify risk and trends, and to apply these business insights to inform decisions and actions. Drive D&I efforts and align with global or local initiatives / implementation. Drives quality, effectiveness, efficiency and continuous improvement for P&O People Partnering and related processes.
• Embraces customer feedback to understand the customer journey with moments that matter and drives continuous improvement. Implement enhancements and modification as necessary to meet both the business and customer needs. Ensure compliance with local equity / Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) regulations. First point of escalation for all leaders and managers on their day-to-day P&O topics, providing expert advice, guidance and support. Identify required critical capabilities for the future and establish plans to meet capability gaps at the organization and individual level.
• Lead career and development conversations; understand team aspirations, skills and the capabilities required for success. Lead the delivery of in-country transformations, consult and negotiate with local works council / unions, provide advice and guidance for managers through the local process, oversee associate notice / handover meetings and overall restructuring lifecycle. Leads the People Partner team to ensure successful country transitions and integrations including effective change management and business continuity.
• Provides coaching and counselling to Country P&O Business Partners on local policies and processes.

Essential Requirements:

• Bachelor degree and above, excellent spoken and written English & Chinese
• Preferably 8 years or above HRBP/ HR Generalist in a multi-national company
• Track records of working as a professional and valuable HR partner to coach and counsel leaders and team on various HR issues
• Excellent project management skill
• Good communication, presentation and stakeholder management skill
• Be agile and resilient

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

Accessibility and Accommodation:

Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to diversityandincl.china@novartis.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.

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