Associate Director, Organisation Development

Job Description Summary

Join us to shape the future of Novartis through leading Organisation Development projects that address complex enterprise-wide organisational challenges, as part of the Organisation Development (OD) Centre of Excellence (CoE) team.
Partner with business leaders and People & Organisation (P&O) to solve complex organisational challenges and drive impactful enterprise-wide transformation. Use your expertise in Organisation Design, Organisational Health Diagnostics, Change Management and Strategic Workforce Planning to build lasting capabilities and help reimagine medicine.

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Location: London, UK; Dublin, Ireland

 

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute to delivery of large-scale business projects driving successful outcomes in the area of Organisational Health Diagnostics, Change Management, Strategic Workforce Planning and/or Organisational Design.

• Provide advice on change management and organisational design activities for various business projects, both independently and as part of a team on larger programmes.

• Carry out research, data collection and conduct analysis to help determine OD needs vs. demands - to inform quality OD interventions.

• Ensure high business impact through quality of delivery, applied consulting skills and stakeholder management, facilitating change in a heavily matrixed and dispersed environment. Often works with senior executives.

• Drive the development of project materials including working session content and designing and delivering appropriate interventions, including facilitation.

• Actively contributes to key initiatives that enable the OD function to grow and develop sustainably, in partnership with OD CoE and Division OD colleagues.

• Support the Global OD strategy implementation with the development of a variety of practices/methods, capability or solution area.

• Actively contributes to the collective capability development of OD as a skills area within P&O by driving a variety of engagement activities across multiple channels.

• Play a key role in the Global OD CoE team development by supporting recruitment efforts, acting as a buddy to team members and contribution to healthy team practices.

• Acquire professional expertise to provide insight and build technical capability as well as develop professional skills and/or leadership capabilities.

Essential Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in business or applied behavioral sciences e.g. Strategy, Business Administration, Human Resources, Organizational Development, Psychology or a related discipline

• Proficiency in English required – spoken & written, other languages is an asset.

• Demonstrated experience gained in OD focused on organization and/or workforce transformation, operating model/organization health diagnostics and design and change management

• Proven experience in contributing to large scale organisation transformation programmes and projects in a consulting organisation, or in an internal consultant role within a corporate environment

• Proven expertise in OD and successful track record in application of OD and consulting tools and solutions in solving complex business problems and delivering global projects

• Demonstrated experience in leading and working with multi-disciplinary teams across a dispersed & matrixed organization (e.g. strategy, operations, technology, P&O, etc.)

• Experience in managing senior-level relationships including presenting to senior stakeholders or decision makers

•  Ability to deal with highly complex environment, reducing complexity into strategy decision recommendations

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

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

 

Skills Desired

Business Partnering, Change Management, Communication Skills, Human Resources (HR), Operational Excellence, Organizational Development (OD), Performance Management, Relationship Building, Resilience, Talent Management, Waterfall Model