Director, People & Organization (P&O) Business Partner - HR

Job Description Summary

We’re a team of dedicated and smart people united by a drive to achieve together.  The Director, People & Organization (P&O) Business Partner for US Commercial serves as a strategic co-architect of the business, partnering with senior leaders to shape and execute workforce, talent, and organizational strategies. This role drives organizational performance, transformation and future readiness by integrating business strategy with people, structure and capability decisions, leveraging data, AI-driven insights and external market intelligence. You will continuously build and apply AI and data fluency to reshape how work, talent, and decisions are executed. You will provide strategic consultation to senior leaders in the newly created US Strategy, Platforms & Transformation (SPT) and Insights & Analytics (I&A) functions in the US Commercial business and partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders including P&O colleagues in COEs and the NOCCs(Novartis Operations Centers) that support the US business located in India, Mexico and Ireland to shape and execute on the business objectives.

 

Job Description

Novartis will not sponsor visas for this position.

Novartis is unable to offer relocation support for this role: please only apply if this location is accessible for you.

This role is required to be in our East Hanover office 3x/week - #Hybrid.

Key responsibilities:

• Strategic Business Partnership - Serve as a core member of the SPT and I&A leadership teams by shaping and challenging business strategy through workforce, talent, organizational, market, and data-driven insights, translating business priorities into actionable P&O strategies aligned with enterprise direction.

• Future Workforce & Capability Strategy - Lead strategic workforce planning to build future-critical capabilities and execute global build, buy, and borrow talent strategies aligned with business growth, product, data, and digital priorities.

• Organizational Design & Operating Model- Lead end-to-end organizational design and operating model evolution, translating structures, roles, governance, decision rights, and ways of working into improved business performance, workflows, talent movements, and performance mechanisms.

• Transformation & Change Leadership - Lead enterprise transformation initiatives by translating strategy into measurable, sustained change across structure, culture, and ways of working, while partnering with business leaders to navigate complexity, ambiguity, and resistance.

• Data, Digital & AI-Driven P&O - Operate as an AI-augmented P&O Business Partner by embedding AI, automation, advanced analytics, and P&O technology into workforce planning, talent decisions, org design, and enterprise initiatives to improve decision quality, transform workflows, enhance efficiency and experience, and advance human–AI workforce integration.

• Executive Coaching & Leadership Effectiveness - Act as a trusted advisor and constructive challenger, elevating leadership impact,

• Talent & Succession Strategy- Own critical talent identification, development, retention, and succession strategies to build strong leadership and capability pipelines while anticipating and mitigating talent risks in competitive and transformation contexts.

• Culture & Performance - Shape a high-performance, accountable, inclusive, and innovation-driven culture aligned to business objectives and Novartis values, enabling agility, execution excellence, employee empowerment, and ownership of outcomes across the business and P&O ecosystem.

• Systems Leadership & P&O Orchestration - Act as the single point of accountability for end-to-end P&O outcomes, orchestrating delivery across COEs, NOCCs, and external partners while ensuring quality, timeliness, business alignment, trusted relationships, and clear performance accountability across the P&O ecosystem.

Essential Criteria

• Bachelor’s degree with Advanced degree (MBA, MA/MS in HR, Organizational Development, Industrial Psychology or related field) preferred

• 10+ years of progressive experience in HR / P&O / Talent roles with proven track record partnering with senior executives (VP/SVP level) with experience Executive Coaching and influencing without authority

• Extensive experience in Strategic Workforce Planning with long-term workforce strategy aligned with business and market dynamics

• Organizational Design & Effectiveness – Proven ability to design and