P&O Business Partner, Middle East

Sandoz


Date: 1 day ago
City: Riyadh
Contract type: Full time
Job Description

Major accountabilities:

  • Serve as P&O Business Partner to Sandoz Saudi teams, responsible for effectiveness of people processes in respective business or function:
  • Strategic workforce and capability building: define, together with business leaders, strategic resource needs and composition / evolution of workforce. Ensure business is proactively deploying capabilities required for achievement of business objectives.
  • Succession Planning and Talent Development: ensure robust succession planning process in the unit to embed talent development culture. Assess, recommend, or identify programs for developing associates. Provide leadership counselling for careers, where appropriate.
  • Organizational Effectiveness: collaborate with leadership team on organizational health and organizational change. Advise on actions to continuously develop the organizational design and culture. Performance and Recognition culture: help improve performance & recognition culture, ensuring retention of high performers, and performance improvement plans for poor performers. Educate and facilitate the implementation of a performance culture (including the performance management cycle).
  • P&O Processes, Policies, Practices: input to and implement competitive P&O practices. Manage these processes across geographic boundaries to facilitate the line's use of them. Act as an employee counsellor in critical cases.
  • P&O Analytics and Reporting: Make use of relevant People data and metrics to support business decisions or track progress on People practices.
  • Proactively support, coach and develop strategies for business leaders on managing the complex changes and transformations.
  • Creating an inclusive environment for the team (including leadership team of the unit / function) to perform, build trust, social bonds, bring best selves and a safe space to speak up.

Key Performance Indicators

  • Feedback from internal partners and client groups -People KPI’s – diversity, retention, on-boarding, etc.

What You Will Bring To The Role

  • Minimum 7 years of experience in People & Organization Function
  • Significant breadth of understanding of functional P&O roles and responsibilities and impact on the business.
  • Experience working in a global matrix cross cultural environment.
  • Excellent communications, influencing and leadership skills
  • Bachelor’s Degree Required.

Languages

  • English & Arabic

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