People Partner

**People Partner (f/m/d), CTS/HR NBS - People Partnering Austria, Kundl, Austria**
More than 5000 That is our number of associates in Austria, each of us with a unique story. We want to create a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone can do their best to rethink medicine together

**Your key responsibilities**:
As a People Partner, you will provide in-country policy expertise and HR generalist knowledge to support and educate leaders, managers, and associates on all P&O topics. People Partners support all divisional customer groups in country enabling the delivery of lifecycle events, the employee value proposition, talent management, performance management, employee relations, rewards, and reporting. In addition, People Partners implement P&O change initiatives at a country level acting as change agents by working with Business Partners.

Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

- Support all leaders and managers with their day-to-day P&O topics, providing advice and specialist knowledge
- Manage client initiatives, prioritize across business units and/or projects
- Provide credible P&O People Partnering to all employees and act as sparring partner to people leaders
- Drive quality, effectiveness, efficiency, and continuous improvement for P&O related processes.

Act as interface to other People & Organization Units - e.g., P&O Services, P&O Business Partners, Rewards, Talent Acquisition
- Drive the execution of local implementation of organizational structure changes in line with country regulations / policies

Collaborate and negotiate with local works' council / unions, provide advice for managers on labor law related matters
- Mediate and resolve employee relations issues.
- Provide mentorship and counselling on local policies and processes,
- Collaborate with Business Partner to drive organizational culture agenda

**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._

**Minimum requirements**

**What you’ll bring to the role**:Essential**:

- Bachelor's or master’s degree
- Excellent level of German; proficient in English; other languages of advantage
- Several years of generalist HR Experience across the employee lifecycle of activities
- Excellent communication, influencing and leadership skills, which allow you to build solid relationships and trust with a great number of partners of all levels

Ability to deal with a complex and diversified environment
- Able to act as an ambassador for the P&O function and Novartis vision, demonstrating our values
- Proven project management skills

Sound analytical skills and labor law knowledge
Strong team player, desire to deliver high quality impact to your business units

**Why Novartis?**
769 million lives were touched by Novartis medicines in 2020, and while we’re proud of this, we know there is so much more we could do to help improve and extend people’s lives.

We believe new insights, perspectives and ground-breaking solutions can be found at the intersection of medical science and digital innovation. That a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment inspires new ways of working.

We believe our potential can thrive and grow in an unbossed culture underpinned by integrity, curiosity, and flexibility. And we can reinvent what's possible, when we collaborate with courage to aggressively and ambitiously tackle the world’s toughest medical challenges. Because the greatest risk in life, is the risk of never trying

**Imagine what you could do here at Novartis**

In addition to a market-competitive base salary, we offer an attractive incentive program, a modern company pension scheme, childcare facilities, learning and development options as well as worldwide career opportunities within the Novartis group. In accordance with Austrian law, we are obliged to disclose the minimum salary as stated in the collective bargaining agreement. For this position the minimum salary is € 52,204/year (on a full-time basis). In most cases, the actual salary will be higher, as we strive to maintain a competitive position in the market and consider your previous experience, qualifications, and individual competencies.

**Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion**:Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse team’s representative of the patients and communities we serve.
Our recruitment decisions are based on selecting the best person for the job, regardless of gender, religion, age, color, race, sexual orientation, nationality, or disability.

**Division**

CTS

**Business Unit**

HR NBS

**Country**

Austria

**Work Location**

Kundl

**Company/Legal Entity**

Sandoz GmbH

**Functional Area**

Human Resources

**Job Type**

Full Time

**Employment Type**

Regular

**Shift Work**

No

**Early Talent**

No