REQ-10060638
Aug 21, 2025
China

Summary

This role oversees Talent & Development initiatives, encompassing talent management, organizational development, workforce planning, leadership development, and change management. It aims to support business and P&O strategy realization through an integrated Talent & Development plan. The incumbent will adopt an enterprise mindset and collaborate closely with business and P&O counterparts in the international business unit in China.

About the Role

Talent Management

  • Develop and execute the China talent strategy and active practice of International
    Talent Principles.
  • Establish robust talent review and succession planning processes for critical roles, building a strong leadership and talent pipeline for China.
  • Build high-potential pools and implement development interventions to accelerate their growth.
  • Partner with TM COE for the "Growth for All" initiative, aiming to drive associates' personal growth through strong development behaviors and impactful actions.
  • Partner with Talent Scouting to prioritize pipeline gaps with them, build a robust external talent pipeline for critical roles, proactively addressing and closing future talent gaps.
  • Lead Performance management and job progression, continuous rhythm and support our people to be the best with the greatest impact

Organizational Development

  • Act as the coach and expert to orchestrate change management, facilitating success through collaboration with the international Organizational Development team.
  • Support China workforce planning efforts in a simple, yet effective way, leveraging external trends and insights, and internal analytics to ensure workforce readiness for future demands.
  • Create integrated workforce strategies to address immediate and long-term talent needs and contingent workforce planning.
  • Enable increased business performance by delivering data driven Organizational health checks, org design, team effectiveness that will deliver the future of work.

Leadership Development and Coaching

  • Provide guidance and support to value teams to elevate their effectiveness as individual leaders and as a collective team, especially in networked teams.
  • Champion leadership development programs that support the growth of leaders and high-potential talent in partnership with Learning team and the central LD team.
  • Leverage assessment tools and frameworks like My Potential, Hogan or 360 feedback to identify and accelerate the development of next-generation leaders.

Ideal Background:

Education: Degree in business administration, communications, human resources, marketing

Languages: Chinese and Fluent English

 

Experience/Professional requirements:

·       10+ years of HR experience

·       CoE experience, in particular Talent Management and Organization Development

·       Track-record in an organization with diverse organizational and social cultures

·       Proven stakeholder management and collaboration track record

·       Experience in and/or collaboration with all HR Centers of Expertise

·       Transformation and change management experience

·       Leading projects, assessing needs of internal clients, and implementing innovative solutions

·       Working as a strategic partner with the Business Leadership as well as HR leaders

·       Identifying talent needs as well as developing solid succession plans

·       Applying data and analytics in talent management

·       Business partner experience in an organization of comparable complexity advantageous

·       Experience in the pharmaceutical industry / life science advantageous

 

Personal attributes

·         Strong collaboration and influencing skills

·         Customer-oriented mindset

·         Strategic and analytical thinking

·         Creativity and problem-solving attitude

·         Cross-cultural sensitivity

·         Balances competing priorities without losing momentum behind execution

·         Pragmatism grounded in a strong business-orientation

·         High degree of intellectual curiosity and rigor

Why Novartis: Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

Benefits and Rewards: Read our handbook to learn about all the ways we’ll help you thrive personally and professionally: https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards

People & Organization
China
Shanghai (Shanghai)
Human Resources
Full time
Regular
No

Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Accessibility and accommodation

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