Associate Director, Organisation Development

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.