Global P&O Business Partner for Global Product Development

Job Description Summary

Job Description
Sandoz continues to go through an exciting and transformative period as a global leader and pioneering provider of sustainable Biosimilar and Generic medicines. As we continue down this new and ambitious path, unique opportunities will present themselves, both professionally and personally.
As a newly independent company we are focused on growth. We see growth as the engine powering everything we want to achieve for patients. It will allow us to innovate & pioneer greater access to high-quality medicines, but we can only do this by bringing the best and the brightest minds together.
As Global P&O Business Partner for Global Product Development you'll lead the P&O agenda for the specific population, ensuring P&O policies and initiatives for talent management, employee relations, organizational development, etc are implemented across sites.

Job Description

Sandoz continues to go through an exciting and transformative period as a global leader and pioneering provider of sustainable Biosimilar and Generic medicines. As we continue down this new and ambitious path, unique opportunities will present themselves, both professionally and personally.

As a newly independent company we are focused on growth. We see growth as the engine powering everything we want to achieve for patients. It will allow us to innovate & pioneer greater access to high-quality medicines, but we can only do this by bringing the best and the brightest minds together.

Position Purpose:

As Global P&O Business Partner for Global Product Development, you'll lead the P&O agenda for the specific population, ensuring P&O policies and initiatives for talent management, employee relations, organizational development, etc are implemented across sites.

 Your Key Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Activate business ownership and accountability of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Actively participate in complex, enterprise P&O projects or initiatives; ensure 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. Advise on and handle diversity, equity and inclusion at all levels, e.g., gender representation, LGBTI, pay equity -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 actively to the P&O community and network.  Act as a leader and collaborate with internal and external partners building P&O thought leadership. Develop an organizational design / plan for client groups by utilizing organizational diagnostics. Develop talent and leadership development strategy and plan. Directly influence the business strategy and translate 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.
• 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.
• Engages and supports the Country P&O Board(s) and unit’s country P&O Heads / Business Partners on cross country initiatives. 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.
• 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.
• Identify required critical capabilities for the future and establish plans to meet capability gaps at the organization and individual level. Instigate career and development conversations with business leaders, understanding aspirations, skills and the capabilities required.
• Lead the cultural change agenda in partnership with People Partners across all levels of the client groups. Provide coaching, feedback, learning opportunities and mentoring to support and enable P&O team members in their development. 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.

What you’ll bring to the role:

Essential Requirements:

• Education: Master’s degree preferred (HR, Organizational Psychology, Organizational Development, MBA with HR/OB, Leadership & Change); Bachelor’s degree required (HR, Business Administration, Psychology, Social Sciences, or Life Sciences).
• Certifications & Skills: SHRM‑SCP, SPHR/GPHR, CIPD Level 7, CODP, or ICF coaching credentials preferred; added advantage with people analytics, change management and HR systems (e.g., Workday).
• Experience: 10+ years in P&O roles with 5+ years as a Business Partner, ideally supporting complex, strategic HR agendas.
• Global/Industry Exposure: Experience working at regional or global level in a matrix organization; pharma industry experience preferred.

Why Sandoz?
Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, provided more than 900 million patient treatments across 100+ countries in 2024 and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more!

With investments in new development capabilities, production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help more patients gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.
Our momentum is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful, flexible-hybrid careers, where diversity is welcomed and where personal growth is supported!

Join us!

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

Skills Desired

Business Acumen, Client Counseling, Coaching, Compliance & Risk Management, Connecting The Dots, Data-Driven Decision Making, Influencing, Leadership Development, Managing Change, Matrix Collaboration, Organization Design, Organization Health, Stakeholder Management, Strategic Workforce Planning, Talent Development, Talent Pipelining, Vision & Purpose (Strategy To Story), Waterfall Project Management

Global leader in generic and biosimilar medicines, operating as an independent company spun off from Novartis. Based in Basel.

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