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 focusing on strategic workforce planning, organization design, organization health diagnostics and change management, 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 - with an emphasis on building a strategic workforce planning methodology across the enterprise and providing direct leadership to our current projects. This role will help shape how we create dynamic strategic workforce plans that incorporate an ever-changing landscape of an agentic workforce & automation.
Location: London, UK (#Remote); Dublin, Ireland (#hybrid)

 

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.

• Drive impactful enterprise-wide transformation – through building a strategic workforce planning methodology across the enterprise.

• Lead projects shaping the creation of dynamic strategic workforce plans that incorporate an ever-changing landscape of an agentic workforce & automation.

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

• 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 contribute 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 contribute 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.

• 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 strategic workforce planning capability, workforce transformation, operating model/organization health diagnostics 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, building a strategic workforce planning methodology to support 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