Summary
#LI-Hybrid
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Relocation Support: This role is based in Prague, Czech Republic. Novartis is unable to offer relocation support: please only apply if accessible.
Imagine shaping the global recruitment strategy that empowers Novartis to access the talent needed to reimagine medicine. In this role, you will guide how we anticipate future workforce needs, influence strategic decision-making across the organization, and help build a forward-looking recruiting model that enables teams to thrive. You’ll play a pivotal part in uniting insights, innovation, and collaboration to create a simpler, smarter, and more future-ready approach to how we bring extraordinary people into Novartis.
About the Role
Key Responsibilities:
- Shape a global recruiting strategy that aligns long-term workforce needs with evolving business priorities.
- Lead demand planning processes to ensure clear alignment between business needs and recruiting capacity.
- Partner with workforce planning, talent management, and organizational development to drive coordinated planning and insights.
- Integrate emerging workforce trends to continuously evolve and future-proof the recruiting operating model.
- Collaborate with sourcing and recruiting partners to strengthen global talent access strategies.
- Drive strategic change initiatives through structured stakeholder engagement, communication, and adoption plans.
- Benchmark external market practices to enhance competitiveness and inform future recruiting capabilities.
Essential Requirements:
- Significant experience leading recruitment strategy within an in-house talent acquisition team or recruitment agency.
- Proven ability to design and implement long-term workforce and demand planning approaches.
- Strong capability to translate business priorities into actionable recruiting strategies and operating models.
- Experience driving enterprise-level change initiatives with effective communication and stakeholder engagement.
- Demonstrated strength in analyzing external market trends to inform talent access strategies.
- Ability to collaborate across functions to integrate insights, planning, and strategic workforce needs.
Benefits & Rewards: 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); Car Allowance; MultiSport Card, Employee Share Purchase Plan. Find out more: https://www.novartis.cz/
Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.
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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Benefits and Rewards: Read our handbook to learn about all the ways we’ll help you thrive personally and professionally: https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards
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
Benefits and Rewards: Learn about all the ways we’ll help you thrive personally and professionally.
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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.
