Novartis
Novartis
Novartis is a global healthcare company focused on discovering and developing innovative medicines that help improve and extend people’s lives. Its research and development work spans cardiovascular, renal and metabolic diseases, immunology, neuroscience, and oncology, combining scientific collaboration with modern technology platforms. The company also emphasizes diversity, equity and inclusion, alongside social and environmental responsibility, as part of its work in advancing medicine.

Vice President, Hire & Move Journey Head at Novartis

Leads Novartis’s global Hire & Move products across talent acquisition, onboarding and mobility. Shapes AI-enabled employee journeys, portfolio governance and measurable workforce outcomes.

Description

  • Lead the Hire & Move product portfolio and its Product Owners
  • Coordinate work across talent attraction and acquisition, onboarding, internal and global mobility, executive scouting, and the external workforce
  • Set and deliver end-to-end journey outcomes for employees and managers
  • Contribute to the People Experience Leadership Team
  • Set the multi-year journey direction and align product owners and partners with company strategy and workforce priorities
  • Champion human-centered discovery, user feedback and external benchmarking
  • Establish measurable business outcomes to guide portfolio decisions
  • Partner with strategy and innovation teams on automation, AI and agentification
  • Balance digital self-service, intelligent agents, automation and human interaction
  • Set technology roadmap priorities and expected value with PTDI and DDIT
  • Identify and prioritize fragmentation, duplication, technical debt, integration gaps and data constraints
  • Turn functional strategies, policies and standards into portfolio decisions
  • Direct portfolio strategy, composition, governance and lifecycle
  • Coordinate roadmaps, resolve priority conflicts and recommend investment, simplification, consolidation, replacement or retirement
  • Own KPI, value realization, cost and investment frameworks
  • Make or recommend capacity and financial trade-offs
  • Ensure regulatory, policy, privacy and process controls are tested and address material failures

Requirements

  • Bring extensive senior People & Organization leadership across HR, product, experience or technology-enabled transformation
  • Have held significant senior-level responsibility in a complex global organization
  • Bring experience in multiple P&O domains, or equivalent breadth through enterprise collaboration and portfolio leadership; multiple domains are preferred
  • Have experience leading or substantially shaping talent acquisition and movement, including areas such as attraction, recruiting and selection, onboarding, internal or global mobility, or external workforce; this experience is preferred
  • Connect candidate, employee and manager journeys across organizational and geographic boundaries
  • Improve high-volume, time-sensitive journeys and deliver measurable results
  • Work across the Expertise Hub, P&O Workforce Strategy and product boundary
  • Translate journey and product outcomes into technology priorities and investment decisions
  • Understand AI, automation, data and architecture well enough to assess value and risk with technical experts
  • Lead a portfolio of products, programs, workstreams or teams
  • Set priorities, weigh costs and benefits, make resource trade-offs and hold teams to shared outcomes
  • Lead change and influence across the organization
  • Build coalitions and communicate change narratives with executives
  • Bring experience leading people and building teams
  • Work credibly with senior P&O, Expertise Hub, Country People Experience, P&O Business Partner, Finance, PTDI and DDIT leaders

Benefits

  • Performance-based cash incentive
  • May be considered for annual equity awards, depending on role level
  • Health benefits
  • Life insurance benefits
  • Disability benefits
  • 401(k) plan with company contribution and matching
  • Vacation
  • Personal days
  • Paid holidays
  • Other leave options
  • Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities

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