Director, Organization & Talent Partner Animal Health: Tech Solutions Manufacturing and Science & Technology

MSD Malaysia; Boxmeer; On-site; EUR 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

3% year-end bonus

25 vacation days

Pension scheme

Wellbeing support

Job summary

MSD Animal Health Boxmeer is recruiting a Director, Organization & Talent Partner for Animal Health Tech Solutions Manufacturing and Science and Technology. You will shape the org and talent strategy, develop leaders, and partner with regional HR to enable execution across markets.

The role requires extensive experience in strategic HR, workforce planning, and organizational development within a global life sciences context. Travel up to 25% within the region may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in HR or related field.
• Minimum of ten years of progressive HR experience, including strategic partnership.
• Experience advising senior leaders.
• Experience in workforce planning and organization development.
• Experience in Animal Health/pharma or life sciences is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Shape the agenda by translating business strategy into long-term org and talent plans.
• Lead organization capability planning to ready structures and roles for future directions.
• Drive strategic workforce planning linked to business direction and transformation.
• Develop leaders and succession plans for critical populations.
• Coach senior leaders to boost organizational effectiveness and leadership impact.
• Act as steward for organizational change and cross-functional collaboration.
• Engage with HR partners to align priorities across divisions and countries.

Skills

Change Management

Strategic Planning

Succession Planning

Talent Development

People Management

Workforce Planning

Executive Communication

HR Strategy

Influence & Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business or related discipline

Tools

HRIS

HR Technology

Job description

Job Description For our Animal Health location Boxmeer we are currently recruiting a Director, Organization & Talent Partner Animal Health: Tech Solutions Manufacturing and Science & Technology. You role The Director, Organization & Talent Partner (OTP), Animal Health Tech Solutions Manufacturing and, Science and Technology, serves as a strategic organization and talent advisor to AVP Tech Solution Manufacturing and VP of Science and Technology. The role architects the long-term organization agenda for this AH area of business into a forward-looking organization, workforce enablement, and talent strategy, helping ensure the supported organization has the structures, capabilities, leadership, talent pipelines and ways of working needed to deliver its priorities. The role uses data and insight to frame choices, leads organization and workforce initiatives within the assigned scope, and commissions the right expertise to bring strategy into execution. The Director achieves impact through strategic consulting, subject-matter expertise, influence, collaboration and effective orchestration of resources across the HR operating model. The role may provide project leadership, coaching, work direction or subject-matter guidance to colleagues without formal people-management accountability. This role works in close collaboration across the Animal Health HR team, and guides and influences in-country Enterprise Team HR partners throughout the multiples markets where GAHM has manufacturing operations to execute against the strategic plan.

Primary responsibilities

Shape the agenda: Understand, anticipate and translate business strategy into the long-term organization and talent agenda.

Lead organization capability planning so structures, roles and capabilities are ready for where the business is going.

Drive strategic workforce planning linked to business direction and transformation.

Develop the organization and its leaders: Enable talent development strategy, including succession and leadership development for critical populations.

Coach senior leaders to improve organizational effectiveness, leadership impact and talent decisions.

Support transformational efforts from an organization and talent perspective.

Act as steward in organizational effectiveness, driving stronger collaboration across functions and clarity in interfaces, so priorities connect rather than compete.

Leverage the HR operating model to bring strategy into execution.

Be accountable for the strategy and execution of macro-level organizational change and transformation and ensure the right partnerships are activated to deliver successful execution.

Continually engage with ETHR to provide ongoing context on business priorities and dynamics; strive to connect organization and talent priorities across divisions and countries.

Seek to understand local nuances and considerations when defining organization and talent strategy and execution plans.

Experience, capabilities and leadership characteristics

The successful candidate will bring strong strategic HR experience in a large, complex organization and a record of shaping outcomes through influence. The role requires the following capabilities and leadership characteristics: Business savviness: bring deep business understanding to translate strategy into differentiated organization, workforce and talent priorities . Organization development and effectiveness: diagnose how well the organization is working and take action to close the gaps and strengthen effectiveness, using the OCP playbook and OD team resources. Talent growth and senior-leader coaching: anticipate talent and capability gaps in critical populations well before they become urgent, and shape the succession and development plans that close them. Influence and executive communication: effectively frame and communicate complex or sensitive issues clearly and confidently to stakeholders and partners to ensure effective action is taken, ability to build a compelling case, frame complex or sensitive issues clearly and confidently, and align senior stakeholders without relying on formal authority. Change catalyst leadership: drive the organizational and cultural shifts your strategy requires, championing new approaches and helping people move through resistance to get there. Networking, partnerships: effectively navigate the organization, delivering through trusted partnerships across the HR Operating Model. Systems Thinking: see the organization as a connected system — understand the interdependencies between businesses, functions and regions, and read data and signals across them to find the patterns that shape the org and talent agenda.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in human resources, Business or a related discipline required.

Minimum of ten (10) years of progressive HR or closely related business experience, including strategic HR partnership experience in a complex, global environment.

Demonstrated experience advising and influencing senior leaders and leadership teams.

Demonstrated experience in strategic workforce planning, organization capability planning, organization design and development, talent and succession, and transformation.

Experience supporting Animal Health, pharmaceutical, life sciences, manufacturing, commercial or other science-based organization is preferred.

Proven ability to influence across organizational boundaries and commission work through a networked operating model.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, facilitation capability, business judgment and analytical capability.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills in English.

Ability to travel 25% throughout the region is required and infrequent travel to other regions is occasionally required.

Required Skills

• Change Management
• Compensation Program Design
• Confidential Data Handling
• Corporate Recruiting
• HR Legal Compliance
• Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS)
• Human Resource Management
• Human Resources (HR) Technology
• People Management
• Prioritization
• Strategic Planning
• Succession Planning
• Talent Acquisition
• Talent Development
• Talent Management
• Workforce Planning

We offer

• A competitive salary, depending on your knowledge and experience.
• A 3% year-end bonus and an annual bonus based on individual and company performance.
• A minimum of 25 vacation days.
• Travel expense reimbursement and a solid pension scheme.
• A high-quality company restaurant with daily fresh and healthy options.
• Excellent accessibility: the train station is located directly at our main entrance and there is ample parking available.
• A contribution towards your personal sports subscription to support your vitality.
• A beautiful private park on site, ideal for a walk, break, or moment of relaxation.
• Mental wellbeing support via Lyra Health for you and your family members.
• Access to a dedicated prayer/meditation room.
• Extensive career growth opportunities thanks to the size of the site and the presence of many disciplines and global departments represented in Boxmeer.
• A workplace within an organization that continues to grow and evolve.

Our company is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and animal health products. The difference between potential and achievement lies in the spark that fuels innovation and inventiveness; this is the space where we have codified our legacy for over a century. Our success is backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.