Journey Head, Hire & Move (Vice President)

IE02 (FCRS = IE002) Novartis Ireland Ltd; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 99,000 - 184,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Insurance plans

Retirement plans

Wellbeing resources

Global recognition programs

Flexible and hybrid working options

Minimum 14 weeks paid parental leave

Job summary

Novartis Ireland Ltd is seeking a Global Journey Head, Hire & Move within the People & Organization Products & Experience. This senior leader will own the end-to-end employee and manager journeys across Talent Attraction, Talent Acquisition, Onboarding, Internal Mobility, Global Mobility, Executive Scouting, and External Workforce.

The role requires steering a portfolio across multiple locations and partnering with Expertise Hubs to translate strategy into coherent journeys, with a focus on

Qualifications

• Senior P&O leadership in a complex global org.
• Experience across multiple P&O domains with enterprise collaboration.
• Tech strategy and AI orientation at portfolio level.
• Change leadership and stakeholder influence.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for Hire & Move product grouping, ensuring portfolio coherence and value realization.
• Lead the People Experience Leadership Team to define and drive the HR ambition, strategy and priorities.
• Own multi-year journeys across Talent Attraction, Talent Acquisition, Onboarding, Internal Mobility, Global Mobility, Executive Scouting and External Workforce.
• Define measurable business outcomes and sponsor human-centered discovery across the portfolio.
• Drive automation, AI and agentification strategy with governance and data considerations.

Skills

Business Acumen

Change Management

Coaching

Data Analytics

Data-Driven Decision Making

Development Leadership

HR Strategy

Leadership

Organizational Design

Performance Management

Stakeholder Management

Strategic Planning

Talent Management

Job description

Job Summary

The Global Journey Head, Hire & Move is a senior leader within the People & Organization Products & Experience (HR) organization, with strategic responsibility for the Hire & Move product grouping and the end-to-end employee and manager journeys it enables. The role leads the Product Owners accountable for Talent Attraction, Talent Acquisition, Onboarding, Internal Mobility, Global Mobility, Executive Scouting and External Workforce, ensuring journey coherence, portfolio health, disciplined investment and value realization. The portfolio is focused on attracting and hiring the right talent, integrating new joiners quickly, and enabling movement of employees and external talent across opportunities and locations.

Locations

This role can be based in East Hanover (US), London or Basel.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Grouping Scope. Accountable for the Hire & Move product grouping, comprising: Talent Attraction; Talent Acquisition; Onboarding; Internal Mobility; Global Mobility; Executive Scouting; External Workforce. The role ensures these products operate as a coherent portfolio and collectively deliver the intended journey outcomes.
• Leadership Team Contribution. Key and active member of the People Experience Leadership Team, together defining and driving the Novartis People Experience ambition, strategy and enterprise priorities.
• Journey Strategy, Vision & Coherence. Own the multi-year ambition for the journeys enabled by the product grouping and translate company strategy, workforce priorities and Expertise Hub direction into coherent journey outcomes. Align Product Owners and partners around the best end-to-end result while preserving Product Owner accountability for individual product strategy, roadmap and lifecycle.
• End User Insight & Business Outcome Definition. Maintain a deep, current and structured understanding of user needs across the portfolio. Sponsor human-centered discovery, use listening and external benchmarks, and define measurable business outcomes that govern portfolio choices.
• Technology Portfolio Plan & Simplification. Work in partnership with the strategy & innovations team to define and drive the automation, AI and agentification strategy across the journey portfolio. Ensure the optimal balance between digital self-service, intelligent agents, automation and human interaction to improve experience, efficiency, compliance and business outcomes while maintaining appropriate governance and oversight. Define the business outcomes, priorities and value expectations that guide the product grouping technology roadmap with PTDI and DDIT. Identify fragmentation, duplication, technical debt, integration gaps and data constraints and prioritize simplification.
• Expertise Hub Partnership & Strategic Priority Translation. Act as the primary portfolio relationship owner with relevant Expertise Hubs. Translate functional strategy, policy and standards into coherent portfolio choices and enable Product Owners to evolve products within agreed guardrails.
• Product Portfolio Strategy, Governance & Lifecycle. Lead the portfolio of Product Owners and own portfolio strategy, composition and health. Establish common product cadences, align roadmaps, arbitrate priorities and recommend investment, acceleration, simplification, consolidation, replacement or retirement.
• Journey, Portfolio KPI & Financial Value Stewardship. Own the KPI and value-realization framework, portfolio cost and investment view, and cross-product indicators. Make or recommend capacity and financial trade-offs so resources are directed toward the greatest benefit and strategic alignment.
• Controls Architecture. Ensure every product has appropriate regulatory, policy, data privacy and process controls, that controls are regularly tested, and that material failures are surfaced and addressed.

Essential Criteria

• Extensive Senior P&O(HR) leadership background with breadth across domains across P&O, product, experience or technology-enabled transformation, including significant senior-level responsibility in a complex, global organization. Direct experience in more than one P&O domain is desirable; credible exposure through enterprise collaboration and portfolio leadership may provide equivalent breadth.
• For this product grouping, experience leading or materially shaping parts of the talent acquisition and movement lifecycle, such as talent attraction, recruiting and selection, onboarding, internal mobility, global mobility or external workforce, would be a preference. Experience connecting candidate, employee and manager journeys across organizational and geographic boundaries, improving high-volume and time-sensitive journeys, and delivering measurable outcomes such as quality of hire, hiring speed, candidate experience, time-to-productivity, internal movement or assignment effectiveness would be particularly useful.
• Experience operating across the Expertise Hub–P&O Workforce Strategy–product boundary. Demonstrated experience navigating the intersection between strategic design and product or operational delivery, and building relationships that enable these communities to work together.
• Technology strategy and AI orientation at portfolio level.
• Product portfolio, financial and governance experience.
• Change Leadership & Organizational Influence.
• People Leadership & Team Building.
• Senior Stakeholder Influence, CoE Partnership & Product Arbitration.

Skills Desired

• Business Acumen
• Change Management
• Coaching
• Data Analytics
• Data-Driven Decision Making
• Development Leadership
• HR Strategy
• Leadership
• Organizational Design
• Performance Management (PM)
• Stakeholder Management
• Strategic Planning
• Talent Management

Benefits & Rewards

At Novartis, we’re committed to reimagining medicine together - and rewarding the people who make it happen. Expected Annual Base Salary Range for role: 83,510.00 - 155,090.00 GBP Annual. The base salary offered is determined based on gender-neutral objectives, such as relevant skills, competencies and experience in accordance with the Novartis pay setting policy and upon joining Novartis will be reviewed periodically. In addition to your base salary, you may be eligible for a performance-based bonus depending on certain performance parameters. The rewards of being part of our team go far beyond base pay and incentives.

• insurance plans
• retirement plans
• wellbeing resources
• global recognition programs
• flexible and hybrid working options
• minimum 14 weeks paid parental leave

Read our brochure to learn more about our global total rewards offering: https://www.novartis.com/sites/novartis_com/files/novartis-life-handbook.pdf

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion / EEO

Pay equity is a fundamental principle of our employment policy and reflects our commitment to create a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment that treats all employees with dignity and respect, as outlined in our Code of Ethics.

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