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Head People & Organisation, Vietnam

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The Head People & Organisation will support business leaders in organizational design and culture, workforce planning, and leadership capabilities, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives while promoting diversity and inclusion.
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As the Head People & Organisation, you will provide business leaders with proactive support in designing and sustaining the organization structure, promoting winning culture and Sandoz mindset, setting workforce planning to accommodate high performance in order to reach short-term and long-term business objectives.


 

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. Join us, the future is ours to shape!

As the Head People & Organisation, you will provide business leaders with proactive support in designing and sustaining the organization structure, promoting winning culture and Sandoz mindset, setting workforce planning to accommodate high performance in order to reach short-term and long-term business objectives.

Key responsibilities:

  • 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. 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Establish strategic workforce plans with leaders and develop organization design efficiencies to enable the long-term business strategy.

Requirements:

  • Education: BA degree or Master degree of social sciences or business administration, ideally an advance degree or specialisation in Human Resources.
  • Languages: Fluent in Vietnamese and English.
  • Minimum 10 years of experience in a generalist HR function, including HR leadership experience.
  • Solid employee relations experience in Vietnam to ensure a positive and productive organisation, as well as the ability to collaborate with the local Trade union.
  • Talent acquisition and retention skills with deep understanding of the local talent market, and able to identify and implement tactics that focus on fast growth and development opportunities for employees.
  • Ability to partner with senior leaders and bring global P&O objectives and initiatives into local practice.
  • Experience in a fast moving, high-paced MNC environment will be an added advantage.

Why Sandoz?

Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, touched the lives of almost 500 million patients last year and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more!

With investments in new development capabilities, state-of-the-art 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 and entrepreneurial spirit 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 encouraged!

The future is ours to shape!

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.

Join our Sandoz Network: If this role is not suitable to your experience or career goals but you wish to stay connected to hear more about Sandoz and our career opportunities, join the Network here: Sandoz Talentpool

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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 Model

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