Summary
This is a high-impact leadership role that blends strategic workforce planning, operational excellence, people leadership, and senior stakeholder engagement.
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Please apply only if this location is accessible to you, as relocation support is not available.
About the Role
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Talent Acquisition Leadership
- Partner with senior business leaders and Resource Solutions partners to design and execute the recruitment strategy for Enterprise Functions & DDIT.
- Translate talent needs and workforce plans into actionable hiring strategies, leveraging market insights and data.
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of Recruitment Business Partners, ensuring consistent, high-quality hiring delivery.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Serve as the senior point of contact for Resource Solutions within Operations, guiding hiring managers and jointly defining optimal recruiting strategies.
- Support Recruitment Business Partners, with complex or high-impact hiring situations, ensuring quality, consistency, and strong hiring manager experience.
- Uphold a high standard of candidate experience reflective of the Novartis employer brand.
Essential Requirements
- Proven leadership capability with experience inspiring, guiding, and developing global TA teams.
- Strategic mindset with the ability to build proactive, market-informed, data-led talent attraction approaches.
- 8+ years of recruitment experience, gained in either agency or in-house TA environments.
- Minimum of 3 years of recent experience managing teams in a global context.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to build trust, influence senior stakeholders, and effectively articulate the employer brand.
Benefits and Rewards
Czech Republic
Monthly pension contribution matching your individual contribution up to 3% of your gross monthly base salary; Risk Life Insurance (full cost covered by Novartis); 5-week holiday per year; (1 week above the Labour Law requirement); 4 paid sick days within one calendar year in case of absence due to sickness without a medical sickness report; Cafeteria employee benefit program – choice of benefits from Benefit Plus Cafeteria in the amount of 17,500 CZK per year; Meal vouchers in amount of 105 CZK for each working day (full tax covered by company); Company car / Car Allowance; Multisport Card, Employee Share Purchase Plan. Find out more about Novartis Business Services: https://www.novartis.cz/
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams’ representative of the patients and communities we serve.
Accessibility and Accommodation
Czech Republic
Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to all individuals. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to receive more detailed information about the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to di.cz@novartis.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.
Why Novartis: Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
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Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.
Accessibility and accommodation
Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to all individuals. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to receive more detailed information about the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.
